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IBM fined $44,400 for seeking immigrants to fill US jobs
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO IBM has been fined $44,400 in the US for posting job ads that stated a preference for applicants with immigrant visas. In online ads...
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The new scientific principles of management
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO In economics, the myth that human beings are rational creatures is beginning to crumble. The growing field of behavioural economics...
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Symantec takes a bite out of bitcoin-mining botnet ZeroAccess
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Security firm Symantec says it has taken a chunk out of one of the world’s largest known botnets. ZeroAccess, which comprises 1.9...
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Microsoft investors want Bill Gates out – report
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Three Microsoft investors, with a combined 5% shareholding in the company, want founder Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the...
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Darktrace applies Bayesian theory to cyber security
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO The career of Dr Mike Lynch, former CEO of Autonomy, has benefited greatly from the work of 18th Century presbyterian minister...
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Active Directory glitch caused IT outage, says NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has revealed that the IT outage that delayed treatment for over 700 patients was caused by corruption...
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Patent debacle exposed Twitter’s naivety, says Withers & Rogers
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Ahead of its plans to float on the New York Stock Exchange, Twitter revealed on Monday it had received a letter from IBM accusing...
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Businesses ill-equipped for IT’s most hyped trends: study
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Over a quarter of businesses are not equipped to deal with the convergence of new technologies, according to a study revealed today....
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Top 10 data disasters of 2013
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Gun shots, spiders and, of course, boozy nights out – data can be lost in wide variety of ways. Whether it be the predictable,...
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Cloud skills shortage needs to be addressed, says Cloudreach
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO New research findings from infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider Databarracks suggests a worrying lack of confidence among IT...
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NatWest and RBS hit by Cyber Monday glitch
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO On what was supposed to be the busiest shopping day of the year for online retailers, RBS group customers were denied access to...
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Cisco and partners open new Tech City innovation centre
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Prime Minister David Cameron today officially opened IDEALondon – an initiative between Cisco, DC Thomson and UCL based in East...
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Use of encryption growing but businesses struggle with it
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO The 2013 Global Encryption Trends Study released today has exposed the major challenges businesses still face in executing data...
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The ethics behind a best-practice big data strategy
By Pete Swabey on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO As big data becomes further entrenched as a mainstream challenge suitable to organisations both large and small, much of the...
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