By Evan Schuman During an August investors call, Home Depot CEO Craig Menear let loose a stunning stat: 90% of all online returns are processed in-store. Allowing an online return to be boxed and handled by a local store has always been a popular feature, but this is the first a primarily physical chain has…
Month: August 2016
Unclear on this whole ‘backups’ concept
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•By Sharky This government agency does lots of time-critical and space-consuming analyses, and with multiple people using each data set, it’s a version-control challenge, says an analyst pilot fish on the scene. “Then the boss called a meeting to tell us his great idea: Every analyst team should place all its files for any project,…
How software-defined everything will change outsourcing
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•By Robert Scheier Software-defined everything (SDE) — the use of software to provision and manage pretty much all IT infrastructure — is poised to make outsourcing much easier for some customers and for some workloads. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …read more Source:: IT…
Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer …read more Source::
Ramnit Trojan targeting UK banks reactivated
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) IBM X-Force researchers advise banks to use adaptive malware detection and real-time endpoint malware intelligence to counter the latest evolution of Ramnit banking malware …read more Source::
Samsung Pay used for 100 million transactions
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Samsung reports that its mobile payments app, which will soon be available in the UK, has transacted 100 million payments in its first year of availability …read more Source:: Internet-Tech
UK tech firms spend less, deliver more on training
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•By Dani Johnson (editor@www.com Survey shows technology firms spend 46% of the national average on learning and development per employee, but deliver an above-average number of hours’ training …read more Source:: Careers
Law firms planning litigation market for GDPR
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Businesses should be preparing for the storm of litigation that is likely to be unleashed when the GDPR goes into force, warns Stewart Room of PwC Legal …read more Source::
Apple iPhones plagued by device failure and crashing apps, report claims
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) A report on mobile device performance produced by Blancco Technology Group says the performance of Apple iPhones is flagging compared with Android-based devices …read more Source::
A quarter of financial sector data breaches linked to lost or stolen devices
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Financial sector breaches in the US doubled in 2015 over the year before, according to a report by security firm Bitglass …read more Source::