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GetTaxi could help firms slash their cab bills by £100m
GetTaxi, a mobile app that helps you arrange a cab, could live up to its name... If it works successfully, its developers claim it could save Londoners a collective£100m on their taxi bills. Which is great for the customers, but it sounds like ... Opinion
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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
To mark the 12th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day on 29 July, Nick Cavalancia, vice president ofWindows management at ScriptLogic discusses the skills that a modern IT Admin needs to have these days to cope with current and future challen... Opinion
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UK government should open up IT contracts to SMEs, say MPs
The UK governmentneeds to beef up its inhouse IT skills,widen its supplier baseand reduce its reliance on outsourcingafter wasting "an obscene amount of public money" on IT projects. But criticism within the report by the public administrat... News
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Amazon international cloud growth dwarfed by American performance
Growth at Amazon's web services division internationally is falling further behind the company's performance in the North American market where AWS reported a massive revenue growth rate of 85% for its latest quarter. Overall sales growth at AWS for ... News
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Has Wandisco launched a store for cloud apps? 'Appen it has
Sheffield-based Wandisco has launched an app store for cloud applications. Sadly, they eschewed any Yorkshire themed names - Appen-It-Does was my suggestion - for a more corporate sound name befitting an enterprise IT supplier. So uberApps it is, the... Opinion
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Paying by credit card online? Use your webcam says Jumio
US payment company Jumio has released technology which it claims turns any webcam into a secure credit card reader making it easier for merchants to accept online payments. The technology, known as Netswipe, claims to be the first and only soluti... News
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CA partners adapt to deliver cloud-based services
Large numbers of CA partners are set to adapt their business models to provide cloud-based services for data protection and managed services for backup and data management - and nearly a third have already moved to a cloud model. A survey of 965 CA c... News
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Did O2 and Subway borrow my Smartphone loyalty card idea?
O2 Media has launched a scannable smartphone discount voucher campaign for the sandwich chain Subway, using O2 More's location-based texting service 'You Are Here'. Targeted O2 More consumers will be able to redeem MMS discount vouchers by scanning t... Opinion
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CA to offer services training for IT grads
CA Technologies hopes to give recentcomputing graduates a leg up in the services-driven IT sector through a new programme called the Associate Services Graduate Programme (ASCP), reports ComputerWeekly.com CA will recruit from a range of courses for ... News
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Thoughts on HP's MPS Confessions campaign: what kind of people have 'beloved' print devices?
In case you missed it, HP has just launched its "MPS Confessions" campaign - no, not MPs Confessions (now that might be diverting) but MPS. For those of you who have been living in a desert outpost somewhere miles away from an internet... Opinion