Category: News
GE; Microsoft Announce New Developments in Healthcare
Need more proof that the cloud is the future of healthcare? How about this: General Electric and Microsoft – two big names in cloud-based healthcare technology — have recently announced plans to create a joint healthcare venture designed to address important changes in the healthcare industry. The new company, which has not been named yet, will enable doctors and healthcare facilities to share patient information, streamline and manage new payment …
Growing Number of Britons Online
More than 8.4 million Britons have never used the web, or 16.8% of the British population. A survey by the Office of National Statistics shows that more people are getting online, with the number of adults falling by almost 300,000 in the last quarter. The recent figures compare substantially to the figure of a fall of 12,000 in the previous quarter. The figures echo Google CEO, Eric Schmidt’s belief over …
Backup Technology shares advice for a career in IT
Five University of Leeds students visited the Backup Technology UK Headquarters last Tuesday evening for a careers presentation and reception. Students had signed up to the event through their Careers Centre to find out more about a career in IT. CEO Simon Chappell and Stewart Parkin, Sales Manager, greeted students at their head office premises for the evening presentation. Simon started the event by welcoming and introducing students to the …
Dangers of Social Media & Driving
In the past few years, social media has become a daily, or even hourly, part of millions of people’s lives. Since the advent of the mobile phone, drivers are facing more and more potential distractions whilst driving. A UK survey has reported that 27% of people have admitted to illegally using Facebook whilst driving. This distraction puts the driver and innocent people at risk to serious consequences and endangerment, when …
UK Lagging Behind In Technology – What Can We Do?
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, condemned the British education system at the Edinburgh International Television Festival over the summer. A summary of the speech was that the UK, the home of the world’s greatest technological inventions, is now lagging behind. At the Techmesh & IT Expo in Leeds this week, Ajaz Ahmed, founder of Legal365.com commented on this idea when looking at the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. He identified …
Sony Suffer New Security Breach
Sony have suffered yet another security breach which has resulted in 93,000 PlayStation Network and SOE games service accounts being locked after unauthorised sign-in attempts. The unknown hackers managed to verify a number of members IDs and passwords. Those affected will be glad to see that their credit card details were not at risk. This latest attack that occurred between 7th and 10th October isn’t on the same scale as …
Data loss affects 800 hospital patients
It has been revealed that East Surrey hospital in Redhill have lost an unencrypted USB memory stick that contains confidential records of 800 patients. The data loss was revealed in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS trust annual report which stated that it had occurred in September 2010. Local press who have access to this document reported that the unencrypted USB memory stick contained information regarding patients’ dates of birth, …
Outdated IT Prevents UK Innovation
Global firm Kurt Salmon, specialists in strategic advisory in their latest report warns this week that out-dated IT structures within organisations in the UK are preventing innovation. Practice leader Darryl Salmons urged Chief Information Officers (CIOs) more space needs to be freed up for innovation and new ideas. To do this, UK businesses need to simplify and standardise their IT systems. Without the right IT governance in place, employees struggle …
Facebook’s Bug Bounty
A new reward scheme issued by Facebook had only been running three weeks yet has already shelled out $40,000 worth of gratitude to researchers which have established bugs within their code. Work is carried out alongside Facebook’s in-house team which work full time to identify flaws in their code. The minimum a person can be rewarded is $500 however their has been reports of people receiving up to $5,000 for …
Amazon Role Out G-Cloud
Amazon has launched a government only cloud for federal Cloud Services. The project ensures that the government stays compliant with regulations such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which states that only US citizens may access data regarding weapons, as well as other items which have been banned from export on the US munitions list. An Amazon spokesman said “because Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud is physically and logically …
