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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  07 July 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES Flat mobile batteries banned from US-bound flights Nationwide hit by apps glitch Five arrested in crackdown on bogus UK government websites NHS trusts in Microsoft’s sights for licence shortfall

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MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK CaixaBank’s flick of the wrist brings contactless payments CaixaBank is giving 15,000 wristbands to customers that will enable them to make contactless payments to hundreds of thousands of businesses in Spain.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Crest welcomes Barclays CES certification Security certification body Crest has welcomed the first certification by a major organisation under the government’s new Cyber Essentials Scheme.   Tablets for work still the province of C-suite Enterprise CIOs might want to put a hold on issuing tablets for work until productivity on these devices improves. Read about the tablet gap in Forrester's report, plus how to take fireworks photos and Facebook's psych study in this Searchlight. (SearchCIO.com) Contact centre value-add services on the up The global contact centre outsourcing market was worth almost $75bn in 2013 after growing 7% since 2011, according to research.  Barclays passes government’s ‘internet-born threat’ test Barclays Bank has been awarded the government’s cyber security certificate for digital banking services after independent tests of services such as Pingit.  Rising Stars revealed with Most Influential Women in UK IT list Judges for Most Influential Women in UK IT hail five females as Rising Stars.  Security Think Tank: The dos and don’ts of a good incident response plan What does a good information security incident response plan look like?

BLOGS Diversity of service not volume the way forward for IT services in new world I recently met up with Indian supplier NIIT and found it interesting to see how diverse its business strategy is, for a relatively small firm.  Why working out the cost of Scotland replicating Whitehall's IT systems is so difficult If Scots vote 'yes' in the Scottish referendum later this year, Computer Weekly has calculated that Scotland could spend over £1bn on replicating the necessary IT systems needed to run an independent state.

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