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March 09, 2012 09Mar2012 News

Apple iOS 5.1 patches 81 vulnerabilities

Alongside its ‘new iPad’ release, Apple Inc. releases iOS 5.1, the latest version of its mobile computing platform with fixes for 81 security holes. Continue Reading

March 09, 2012 09Mar2012 News

Buyer's Guide: Server Virtualisation

This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide looks at the potential barriers to successful virtualisation and how they can be overcome. Continue Reading

March 08, 2012 08Mar2012 News

Councils meet first superfast broadband deadline

All but two local authorities have met government deadlines to submit plans to roll out superfast broadband Continue Reading

March 07, 2012 07Mar2012 News

Systems integrators 'charge more in paperwork than SMEs do in delivery’

A systems integrator asked for more money from the government for an IT product proposal than an SME was able to deliver the actual service for. Continue Reading

March 07, 2012 07Mar2012 News

John Lewis prioritises IT investment above profit

John Lewis made significant technology investments in 2011, pushing profits down 3.8% to £353.8m Continue Reading

March 07, 2012 07Mar2012 News

NIST releases SP 800-153 WLAN security guidelines

The recently released NIST SP 800-153 addresses security of WLANS. Join us, as we take a closer look at the document’s recommendations. Continue Reading

March 07, 2012 07Mar2012 News

Government’s shared services strategy failing, says NAO

The government’s £1.4bn shared services centres have failed to achieve value for money, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) Continue Reading

March 07, 2012 07Mar2012 News

FBI informer Hector Xavier Monsegur aids in arrest of LulzSec hackers

Authorities in the US, UK and Republic of Ireland have arrested seven suspected members of hacktivist group LulzSec, including Hector Xavier Monsegur, who helped investigators Continue Reading

March 06, 2012 06Mar2012 News

SAP boosts ByDesign ecosystem to support small business customisation

SAP is rolling out a partner programme for its ByDesign cloud-based product, to simplify implementation in SMEs Continue Reading

March 06, 2012 06Mar2012 News

Yahoo plans another round of job cuts

Yahoo is planning another round of redundancies as it continues to struggle with competition from rivals Google and Facebook Continue Reading

March 06, 2012 06Mar2012 News

CW500: Getting to grips with big data

Experts from Standard Life, Deloitte and Intelligent Business Strategies share some useful tips for CIOs on understanding big data Continue Reading

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Answer

Session fixation protection: How to stop session fixation attacks

Session fixation attacks rely on poorly managed Web application cookies. Rob Shapland answers a reader’s question on session fixation protection. Continue Reading

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 News

NHS trusts to be freed from CSC contract commitments

The Department of Health has proposed a deal with CSC to release trusts in the National Programme for IT from their contractual obligations to use software from the troubled supplier. Continue Reading

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

The Microsoft store

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Bundled Apps

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Hyper-V for desktop virtualisation

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Improved security

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Starting up Windows

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Windows for power users

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Final thoughts

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Asynchronous programming with a sandbox runtime

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Support for normal Windows applications

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

Windows side-by-side

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 Photo Story

A first look: Windows 8 consumer preview

Windows 8 is not just an upgrade. It is a complete rework of the Windows OS. Speaking at the launch of the beta last week in Barcelona, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky called it a "generational change" Continue Reading

March 05, 2012 05Mar2012 News

Rogue IT manager jailed for two years after £123k procurement scam

A rogue IT procurement manager has been jailed for two years after he colluded with two IT suppliers to defraud grocer Nisa Today out of £123,000 Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 Opinion

Opinion: Is big data just big hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, big data is the next big thing. So how much is there really to all this big data talk? Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 News

Somerset Council to bring Southwest One services back in house

Somerset County Council is seeking to bring key services back in house from Southwest One , the troubled joint-venture it created with IBM in 2007. Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 Blog Post

Loving it when an identity plan comes together

To quote a phrase that was mightily popular in the 1980s: I love it when a plan comes together. In this case, it's not even my plan, but it's one I've found myself writing about often over the past ... Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 E-Zine

Next-generation network management techniques

This issue examines how network managers can simplify their management tools and use key protocols like NetFlow and IPFIX, and hardware like matrix switches. Learn how network managers are adopting new tools that give them better control over ... Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 News

2012 security outlook

This report, based on extensive research from chief information security officers, identifies the top 10 security imperatives for 2012. Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 News

The cloud: time for delivery

This report clears up the confusion around cloud, which stems directly from the muddling together of two vastly different perspectives on cloud services. Continue Reading

March 02, 2012 02Mar2012 News

The mindset of the chief information officer

This study evaluates the leadership role that chief information officers perform in helping their organisations achieve their commercial goals. Continue Reading

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 News

RSA 2012: IT security experts urge enterprises to ban smartphone BYOD schemes

Enterprises should ban employees from using their own smartphones for work, a panel of IT security practitioners told the RSA Conference 2012 Continue Reading

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Podcast

The best place for SSD in a virtual machine environment

Using SSD in a virtual machine environment is the ideal choice to speed response times to I/O demands, but where should you install it within the server and storage infrastructure? Continue Reading

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 News

DWP tenders for £25m IDA services

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has tendered for a £25m identity assurance (IDA) framework to create a marketplace of providers across the public sector. Continue Reading

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Nokia Lumia 900

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

ZTE Era

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Top 10 smartphones to look out for in 2012

The rate at which smartphones are being released looks like it won't ease up, this photo story looks at the best phones of the year ahead. Continue Reading

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

HTC One S

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

HTC One X

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Nokia 808 PureView

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Sony Xperia P and U

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Samsung Galaxy Beam

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Huawei Ascend D Quad

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Asus Padfone

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 Photo Story

Panasonic Eluga

March 01, 2012 01Mar2012 E-Zine

Finding a home for Flash

Vendor consolidation is a fact of economic life. The bigger a company is, the more it can push economies of scale. The cloud is threatening to accelerate this consolidation significantly. IT and storage are not commodities today, but that may not ... Continue Reading

February 29, 2012 29Feb2012 News

IT departments risk losing responsibility for IT security

IT security professionals can no longer take it for granted that IT security will continue as part of the IT function Continue Reading

February 29, 2012 29Feb2012 News

London Borough of Southwark gets 4G connectivity

Network provider UK Broadband has switched on its first 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) system in the London Borough of Southwark Continue Reading

February 29, 2012 29Feb2012 News

Does the PSN need to happen before the cloud?

The deployment of public services networks (PSN) will need to happen before widespread uptake of CloudStore services occur, IT heads said at a roundtable meeting. Continue Reading

February 29, 2012 29Feb2012 News

Datacentres and mobile devices drive 7% server shipment rise in 2011

Server shipments rose 7% in 2011 as businesses built datacentres and smartphones and tablets were increasingly used to access web content Continue Reading

February 28, 2012 28Feb2012 In Depth

Virtual machine storage optimisation methods explained

Virtual machine storage for virtual desktops and servers has to deal with heavy and random I/O patterns. We survey the key methods of optimising storage for virtual machines. Continue Reading

February 28, 2012 28Feb2012 News

Mobile technology training in demand

A massive 81% of IT professionals are planning to bolster their skills in mobile computing as 84% see this as an area of growth in the market. Continue Reading

February 28, 2012 28Feb2012 News

Social media to support business continuity

Three-quarters of organisations will use social media as part of their business continuity management (BCM) strategies by 2015 with communication during crises a key component of its role. Continue Reading

February 28, 2012 28Feb2012 In Depth

Buyer's Guide: How to upgrade to IPv6

IPv6 is an increasingly hot topic in the networking industry. We examine the issues for older hardware support. Continue Reading

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Top 10 budget smartphones for SMEs

This photo story looks at what options IT managers have when equipping their small business with smartphone son a budget. While Blackberry is usually the choice for any business, it’s good to look around at what alternatives offer and whether a ... Continue Reading

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

HTC ChaCha

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Blackberry Curve 9360

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Samsung Galaxy Y

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Blackberry Curve 9300

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Nokia Lumia 710

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Blackberry Curve 9380

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Nokia 700

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

HTC Wildfire S

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 Photo Story

Samsung Galaxy Mini 2

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 News

Post Office reveals plans for identity assurance services

The Post Office is tendering for hardware and software which will enable it to be a provider of the government's Identity Assurance (IDA) services. Continue Reading

February 27, 2012 27Feb2012 News