Nominations are now open for CPI’s CIO 50 Awards and Forum 2014, honouring the attainment of competitive advantage and accelerated business success through IT.
HM Treasury launches £255m framework for new “multi-sourced” IT model
HM Treasury is inviting suppliers to tender for a place on a new framework worth up to £255 million, which will help the department move away from a single-supplier outsourcing model for its IT and towards a “multi-sourced” supply chain.
EU goes a step closer to standardising mobile phone chargers
Europe inched a step closer towards enforcing a single, universal mobile phone charger yesterday when a provisional deal was made between members of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
US retailer Overstock plans to accept Bitcoin
US retailer Overstock plans to become one of the first major businesses to accept virtual currency Bitcoin.
Reuters report on NSA ‘secret’ payments to RSA fuels encryption controversy
The U.S. National Security Agency paid US$10 million to vendor RSA in a “secret” deal to incorporate a deliberately flawed encryption algorithm into widely used security software, according to a Reuters report that is reigniting controversy about the government’s involvement in setting security standards.
Apple and China Mobile sign deal to sell iPhones from January
Apple yesterday signed a deal with China Mobile which could see it offer the iPhone to over 760 million Chinese customers from January.
EMC: EMEA Predictions for 2014
The following predictions from Havier Haddad, Channel and Alliances Director , Turkey, Emerging Africa & Middle East, EMC are highlighting the big trends, changes and issues affecting the EMEA technology channel in 2014 and covering what Haddad believes will happen in the industry over the next year.
Kaspersky Lab: global internet threat up 6.9 percent in 2013
The overall global Internet threat level grew by 6.9 percentage points in 2013, with 41.6 percent of user computers being attacked at least once, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Verizon to report on US law-enforcement data requests
Verizon Communications will report on law-enforcement requests for information on its customers that it received in 2013, following similar moves that major online companies have made, but rival AT&T has not.
Banks must ‘significantly upgrade’ IT systems for risk compliance, says Basel Committee
Banks are unable to adequately assess financial risk due to delays in upgrading IT systems, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.