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How UK banks are flirting with IT disaster
The continuing NatWest debacle has highlighted the IT systems risks faced by British banks, springing from a lack of investment in back-office staff and a reluctance to abandon legacy systems
(ZDNet UK - IT Strategy)
Photos: Google's Nexus 7 tablet serves up Jelly Bean
The Nexus 7 is the first tablet that Google will sell directly to the public, starting at £159 for the quad-core device running the next version of Android, Jelly Bean
Photos: Skydivers bring Google Glasses to the party
Google co-founder Sergey Brin employed cyclists and skydivers in an elaborate show to highlight the powers of the company's Project Glass computerised glasses, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco
Android 'Jelly Bean' 4.1 launches with its sights set on Siri and developers
The next version of Android, which will debut on Google's own Nexus 7 tablet, promises better voice-driven search to take on Apple's Siri, as well as a personal assistant tool and key features for developers
Google Glass: $1,500 for developers 'on the bleeding edge'
Google's network-enabled, computerised glasses — Google Glass — will be sent to developers on the 'bleeding edge' early next year, co-founder Sergey Brin has revealed
HP aims to fox hackers with 'non-stick' Dynamic Defence tech
HP Labs is using randomisation to divorce applications from their infrastructure, in an attempt to prevent hackers from mapping out an approach and so make it harder to mount targeted attacks
Red Hat reveals OpenShift PaaS pricing
The OpenShift development platform will move to FreeShift, a free service, and MegaShift, a subscription-based platform
Mozilla unwraps newer, faster Firefox for Android
After months of work, Mozilla has unveiled a rebuilt Firefox for Android, having decided in October 2011 that the browser needed a complete overhaul
Microsoft fails to get £576m EU fine scrapped – but wins tiny discount
The software giant has won a small reduction in its antitrust fine over Windows interoperability but failed to have it dismissed entirely, after the EU's General Court threw out all of Microsoft's main arguments
Acer Iconia Tab A510
Acer's Olympics-branded Iconia Tab A510 isn't the most eye-catching of Android 4.0 tablets, but it does have a quad-core processor, a useful software bundle and above-average battery life. Business users may prefer the Asus Transformer Pad TF300T for its keyboard dock.
Google set to launch $199 Galaxy Nexus tablet
The web giant is reportedly on the verge of launching $199 Nexus tablet co-branded with Asus, running the forthcoming 'Jelly Bean' version of Android
Chip-and-pin bypass used in £48m fraud scheme
Operation High Roller attacks banking systems worldwide and attempts to bypass physical chip-and-pin authentication by using automated mule account databases
BT reveals 98 new exchanges to get fibre broadband
Another 800,000 businesses and homes around the UK will be within reach of fibre by late 2013, BT has said, as part of its £2.5bn plan to bring super-fast broadband to two-thirds of the country
(ZDNet UK - Networking)
MI5 chief: Massive cybercrime wave putting businesses at risk
Companies in Britain are fending off an 'astonishing' level of sustained cyberattack from governments and gangs trying to prise out their secrets, fed by an industrial-scale black economyl, according to MI5 chief Jonathan Evans
File-sharing appeals get tougher under piracy crackdown
People accused of copyright infringement will have fewer grounds for appeal under Ofcom's new draft code for implementing the Digital Economy Act
OneCloud storage app arrives on Android
Self-styled 'mobile cloud for the enterprise' OneCloud is now rolling out to Android, having previously launched on Apple's iOS
Zoom with a view: Bing Maps adds 165TB of images
Bing Maps is now offering 165TB of new images including bird's-eye-view satellite shots of the Earth
Apple pushes out second iOS 6 beta
The iPad maker has given developers an update to its iOS 6 software, which it first previewed at its developers' conference earlier in June
NatWest failure: Special report
NatWest has been plagued by a glitch in its software that left customers unable to update their balances and make payments for several days. Read ZDNet's round-up of the unfolding story
NatWest faces probe, compensation claims over balance glitch
After a software bug caused widespread payments chaos last week, RBS faces regulatory scrutiny and compensation claims from customers who incurred charges