Government IT strategy promises much wider supplier market
Intellect, the IT industry association, has welcomed the government's promise in its updated IT strategy of involving more suppliers.
Intellect, the IT industry association, has welcomed the government's promise in its updated IT strategy of involving more suppliers.
BlackBerry maker RIM had a single point of failure for most of the countries affected by this week's catastrophic outage, prompting serious business continuity questions.
BlackBerry maker RIM still does not know why the core switch at its Slough data centre crashed, to cause what it now admits is its biggest network outage in its history.
BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has failed to answer a series of key technical questions about its catastrophic three day outage, which it has warned could take more time to fix.
BlackBerry customers have flooded Twitter, saying their data services are down again today.
Shares in Research in Motion, the company behind <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/topics/blackberry/">Blackberry</a> mobile messaging service, were up today even though its customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were hit by a <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/mobile-wireless/3309933/blackberry-outage-totally-unexplained/">second day of service failures</a>.
BlackBerry users around the world have expressed immense frustration that at an outage has paralysed their mobile email, internet and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) services for almost two days.
Mystery surrounds <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/mobile-wireless/3309715/blackberry-outage-floors-email-bbm-and-web-access/">yesterday's huge BlackBerry outage</a>, with manufacturer RIM failing to make the cause of the problem public to users, which include many small businesses who rely on the service.
The proliferation of mobile devices is competitively important for businesses but is creating "chaos" for security professionals, IDC has warned.
Security software firm AVG sought to put some more bones on the launch of the new version of its security software product in Prague this week, with the company focusing on mobility and industry initiatives to collectively tackle security threats.
The government's procurement arm, Buying Solutions, is looking for suppliers for up to £2 billion worth of services for the Public Services Network (PSN), the communications infrastructure for local councils and Whitehall departments.
FirstGroup, the largest bus and rail operator in the UK, is planning to invest in contactless ticketing technology for its buses in England.
Property investment firm Land Securities has fully adopted the iPad and introduced an enterprise app storefront for its staff.
Smartphones stolen during the recent riots in London and other cities appear to be turning up for sale in large numbers, goods tracking company <a href="http://www.recipero.com/home">Recipero</a> has found.
The smartphone has become an ironic symbol of the London riots few manufacturers will want to dwell upon.