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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  08 July 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES No return to snooper’s charter under emergency surveillance law Top hardware firms join forces on IoT standards Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation Pennine NHS Trust prepares for major digital patient initiative

PREMIUM CONTENT Making the case for the cloud in common use airport technology This report from Amadeus looks at the business case for cloud computing in airports.   Recommenations on rolling back government surveillance Four former seniors staff from the US electronic intelligence gathering agency, the NSA, put the case for reform.

MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK Smart light bulbs get security update Smart light bulb maker LIFX has issued a firmware update after security researchers exposed a security weakness.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Tablet sales to slow in 2014, says Gartner Gartner findings show that sales of tablets are set to slow in 2014 as uptake moves into the late adopters phase in mature markets.   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. (SearchCIO.com) Vodafone cuts roaming costs with WorldTraveller Vodafone moves to combat high roaming costs outside the EU, launching £5 a day WorldTraveller service in countries including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the US.  Most NSA spy data relates to innocent internet users, report shows Study shows NSA's internet surveillance collects more data from ordinary internet users than legitimate targets.  SME IT staff buckling as IT consumerisation sends workloads soaring IT professionals in the SME sector are buckling as trends such as the consumerisation of IT and shadow IT push workloads to unmanageable levels.  Public sector outspends private sector on outsourcing by 70% The UK public sector spent about 70% more than UK businesses on IT and business process outsourcing over the last two years, according to Information Services Group (ISG).

BLOGS Techpreneur of the Year Awards winners Winners of the Techpreneur of the Year Awards have been announced. During a ceremony at the University Women's Club, the winners of two main categories were unveiled.  Moving to the cloud purely to save costs? Think again Organisations turning to the cloud with a sole intention of cost savings are the ones that are least happy with their cloud infrastructure and are the ones that are most likely to give up cloud adoption.

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