LONDON, UK — 1 February 2011— Hitachi Consulting UK today announced the completion of the new design for Experian FootFall’s next generation of products and services. The architectural design and requirements, based on Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint 2010, are designed to provide an innovative new platform to support Experian FootFall’s global business operations, further increase customer service levels and help maintain the company’s market leading position of delivering in-depth understanding into the business value of data.

Experian FootFall, a leading provider of information and services related to the number of people visiting retailers, shopping centres and transport locations, helps companies better understand marketing opportunities by measuring customer numbers and providing related metrics such as conversion rates.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts, January 27, 2011 – New whitepapers released by Napatech suggest that Deep Packet Inspection technology can be used to help mobile carriers offer more intelligent mobile data services than “flat-rate” and thereby ensure that mobile revenues keep pace with growing network traffic.   Deep Packet Inspection systems can extract the relevant information from Ethernet and the protocols encapsulated by Ethernet (e.g. IP, TCP and UDP) that can then be used to manage networks, services and billing.   In “Building Intelligent Mobile Data Services using Deep Packet Inspection”, Napatech provides a case for using Deep Packet Inspection technology to offer more customer friendly and intelligent services that build loyalty and ensure a fair pricing model for both consumer and carrier. 

25th January 2011 - Reports that the Opera Web browser has been hit by a zero-day vulnerability highlights the fact that all Web browser clients are, by their very nature, insecure, says Idappcom, the data traffic analysis and security specialist. According to Anthony Haywood, the firm's chief technology officer, Opera is popular amongst users of smartphones and netbooks, owing to its relatively small footprint. "Ironically, it's also been gaining traction on account of its less-than-mainstream status, which some experts have observed means that the software is less of a target by hackers and cybercriminals," he said. "This reasoning appears quite sound, until you realise the world's Internet browser user base is now measured in hundreds of millions, which means that a client that accounts for a fraction of a percentage still means there are millions of users out there in cyberspace," he added.

LONDON, UK — 26 January 2011 — Hitachi Consulting U.K. today announced the completion of a major upgrade of PING’s Global Microsoft Dynamics AX Platform from version 4.0 to 5.0. The upgrade is expected to provide technical and ongoing support of the platform along with global standardisation of PING’s Customer Service system (PCS), which handles customer orders, processing, manufacturing and shipping. The system is expected to dovetail with accounts receivable to help deliver full integration, up to date functionality and support for later enhancements.