European Technology
Our team working out London will keep you up to date with all the big technology news from the UK and mainland Europe - and what it means for you.
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Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts productivity
Any manager who thinks staff should be banned from using social media at work is seriously misguided and could be doing grave damage to the business.
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is down but its Hungary datacentre cranks up
With the world's largest particle accelerator shut down for two years, nuclear research centre CERN is busy working on its new Budapest colocation site.
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Cloud skills: IT teams' lack of know-how is derailing deployments
Many IT departments just don't have the architecture and infrastructure skills in-house to cope with cloud deployments.
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Out-running the leopard: Dodging targeted attacks in cyber-space
It's time to rethink your security options as internet attackers become smarter and more focused in who they attack - and how.
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IT job cuts: Is the end finally in sight?
A poll of IT chiefs' views on hiring and budgets picks out a whiff of change in the jobs climate.
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Viral spread of cloud is meant to leave IT out in the cold
SaaS providers seem to be using feature creep to bypass the IT department and encourage take-up of their services by staff.
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Cloud strategy: Four steps to win back control from shadow IT
The increase in inhouse departments going their own way and buying on-demand software - shadow IT - makes it all the more important for tech to impose some order.
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Cloud: Cheaper and safer? Not necessarily
Any steps towards the cloud need to be carefully measured, because there's no guarantee it will turn out to be the best option.
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Will end of XP support spark rash SaaS and Office 365 decisions?
When some firms realise how little time remains until Microsoft pulls the plug on XP support next year, they could cut corners with software as a service and end up making some unwise decisions.
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Is outsourcing bad for your IT security?
More than half of data thefts investigated by an IT security firm last year were at firms that outsourced a major part of their IT.
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How Hadoop is helping King.com ask the right questions
The social gaming firm on how the big data platform is helping it ask smarter questions by removing some of the guesswork from analytics.
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End of XP support: Why so many CIOs are still not ready
With Microsoft's cut-off date for support for XP just over a year away, a worryingly large number of IT leaders seem to be unprepared.
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What the next evolution of enterprise IT means for your job
Businesses use of technology is changing and that has a knock on effect on career prospects for IT workers.
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Setting up a cloud? eBay reveals the five key steps
In creating a private cloud to give flexibility to developers and the business, eBay learned lessons that should apply to any organisation grappling with similar changes.
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How PA cleared the big data hurdle at the London Olympics
The Press Association's director of technical architecture on how its IT systems coped with the challenge of supplying coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Cern: Where the Big Bang meets big data
The home of the Large Hadron Collider is to be a testbed for developing big data technologies
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is down but its Hungary datacentre cranks up
With the world's largest particle accelerator shut down for two years, nuclear research centre CERN is busy working on its new Budapest colocation site.
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Are outsourcers stunting business innovation?
Although many companies see outsourcing as a positive force for cost reduction and flexibility, others are arguing that it may be acting as a block to new technological thinking.
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Are these the dev skills you'll need to survive in the cloud?
As businesses use increasing numbers of cloud and mobile apps, here are some of the skills developers could need to stay relevant to the business of tomorrow.
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Bandwidth problems? DIY fibre could dig you out of a hole
Waiting for an incumbent telecoms supplier to install real broadband can be futile. And a spot of DIY is often far easier than you might think.
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Barclaycard's PayTag 'upgrades' your phone for contactless payments
Credit card company hopes a sticky mini-credit card could boost the adoption of contactless payments
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BBC brings iPlayer video-on-demand to Xbox Live
The BBC's video service, seen as one of the UK's most successful tech developments of recent years, is now available on Xbox Live.
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Artificial Intelligence: What happened to the hunt for thinking machines?
Mankind has long been fascinated by the idea of intelligent machines, but in the information age the sci-fi dream of creating a human-like AI appears increasingly anachronistic.
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Cloud and staff rights: Where does the law stand?
Most experts agree that shifting work to the cloud will take its toll on inhouse IT jobs, so businesses need to find out how employment law relates to this technology trend.
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Cloud: Cheaper and safer? Not necessarily
Any steps towards the cloud need to be carefully measured, because there's no guarantee it will turn out to be the best option.
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Cloud computing: Are your own antique systems holding you back?
Enterprises are reluctant to embrace cloud computing because of the complexity of integrating with their own legacy system, according to a survey.
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Cloud computing: Can you dodge these three hidden pitfalls?
People know all about the cloud's benefits. But the technology also throws up a number of business issues that may be less well recognised.
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British Airways uses Google image search to spot frequent fliers
BA will use the image search feature to identify high profile passengers to allow staff to greet customers by name.
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Are developers really skilled up for the cloud?
Writing code for cloud-hosted apps is requiring developers to demonstrate new skills that some CIOs doubt exist in sufficient quantities in their teams.
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BT releases Rabit to catch cable thieves
Can a new network 'burglar alarm' cut the damage that metal thieves are causing disruption to BT's national network?