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• August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11

  Failed IT projects demolish big businesses and executive careers, say researchers

  IT projects spinning out of control in the public and private sector are ending the careers of senior executives and causing entire businesses to collapse.

• August 19, 2011 19 Aug'11

  What does HP's Autonomy acquisition mean for the UK tech sector?

  HP's bombshell announcement that it is to acquire Autonomy has left many questioning where this leaves the UK software industry. Computer Weekly asks the experts what the deal means for UK home-grown tech talent and what HP is likely to achieve with...

• August 19, 2011 19 Aug'11

  Customers may think twice about HP as PC business looks uncertain

  As HP announces a major shake-up of its product range and services, analysts warn customers could think twice about HP contracts as a result of uncertainty surrounding its PC business.

• August 18, 2011 18 Aug'11

  NHS trusts already planning a way out of National Programme contracts

  NHS trusts in the National Programme for IT's beleaguered southern region have already begun drafting specifications for systems that may replace those supplied under the controversial project.

• August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11

  UK business should educate internally to get the right IT security skills at lower cost

  UK businesses should look to internal training to meet future IT security needs rather than paying high prices by competing to recruit scarce skills externally, warn experts.

• August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11

  Atos employees to be investigated over Facebook remarks about disability benefit applicants

  Two Atos Healthcare employees are being investigated over allegations they made inappropriate remarks on Facebook about the people they assess for sickness benefit.

• August 16, 2011 16 Aug'11

  Information Commissioner calls for more privacy improvements at Google

  The Information Commissioner's Office says an audit at Google's London office shows the company has taken reasonable steps to improve its privacy policies, but could do more.

• August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11

  Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC

  The government must bring in changes to better protect personal information, calls the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

• August 12, 2011 12 Aug'11

  Parliamentary group of MPs to discuss outsourcing and shared services

  A parliamentary group of MPs that will look at how the public sector can get more out of outsourcing and shared services will begin work when it has its first meeting this month.

• August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11

  US woman sues Google over Gmail scanning

  A woman has filed a class action suit against Google for scanning all e-mail sent to Gmail account holders to use for targeted advertising campaigns.

• August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11

  IT firm grows business five-fold after hiring apprentices

  Computer repair company D&J Henry says its business has grown five-fold after hiring apprentices.

• August 10, 2011 10 Aug'11

  Adobe issues security updates for Flash, Shockwave, Photoshop and RoboHelp

  Adobe has issued fixes for vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave, Photoshop, RoboHelp and Flash Media Server in the latest security update.

• August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11

  Ten-year-old hacker exposes exploitable flaws in Apple and Android games

  A 10-year-old Californian hacker has exposed a new type of security vulnerability in many mobile games at a hacker conference in Las Vegas.

• August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11

  Twitter acquires social network site Bagcheck

  Social network site Bagcheck has been bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum.

• August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11

  Blackberry to co-operate with police after youths used BBM to organise riots

  Research in Motion has said that it will co-operate with the police after it was revealed that London rioters used Blackberry Messenger rather than Twitter to organise looting sprees across the capital, with violence later spreading to Birmingham, ...

• August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11

  Royal Pharmaceutical Society outsources to cope with restructure

  The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has outsourced the management of e-mail and storage to support a major restructure.

• August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11

  US standards body issues warning to energy suppliers over cyber attacks

  A US energy industry standards body has warned suppliers to improve their defences against cyber attacks.

• August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11

  Toxic National Programme for IT contracts to be housed under one body

  Billions of pounds of toxic IT contract exposures at the Department for Health could be housed under one central unit, according to reports.

• August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11

  US names former Microsoft executive as new Federal CIO

  The US has appointed former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel as its new government chief information officer.

• August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11

  Energy giant outsources smart meter services to Logica

  Scottish and Southern Energy has outsourced some of its smart metering processes to Logica to help support the UK national roll-out.

• August 02, 2011 02 Aug'11

  NHS trust forced to adopt National Programme patient records system or face £8.8m fine

  An NHS trust was forced to buy care records software through the National Programme for IT or face the threat of an £8.8m fine - even though it had a longstanding supplier in place.

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  CSC closes acquisition of iSoft ahead of NHS IT contract renegotiations

  Outsourcing provider CSC has closed the acquisition of beleaguered healthcare application provider iSoft for $189m (£115m).

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  CIO interview: Michael Foster, European vice-president of IT, FedEx Express

  What role should IT play in business? This is the question Michael Foster, vice-president of IT at Fedex Europe, tackles at the global courier. Cliff Saran reports.

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  Former government CIO John Suffolk joins Huawei as head of cybersecurity

  Former government CIO John Suffolk has joined China-based IT company Huawei as global head of cybersecurity.

• July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11

  Why the High Court ruling in the Newzbin2 case is such a big deal

  The creative industries have welcomed the UK High Court ruling that BT must block access to pirated content aggregator site Newzbin2, but why is the ruling seen as such a game changer?

• July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11

  Government axes 376 more websites

  The government has axed nearly half of its websites since June last year, following recommendations that all digital public services should be under one URL.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Starting from scratch - the SMB CIO

  The role of CIO is usually associated with large companies with lots of technology and several IT staff. But that's not always the case.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Highlights from 'A recipe for rip-offs' - the Select Committee report on government IT

  The Public Administration Select Committee has published a scathingly critical report on government's use of IT. We've chosen a selection of the highlights from the report.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware

  Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  KLM deploys RightNow natural language search for mobile website

  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled out software-as-a-service provider RightNow's CX Intent Guide on its mobile website.

• July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11

  Computer glitch halts Post Office card transactions

  Customers have been unable to complete card transactions at the Post Office after a computer glitch across all branches...

• July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11

  Virgin Media sees small drop in business sales, and loses 18,000 broadband users

  Cable telecoms supplier Virgin Media has reported a small drop in business revenue for its second quarter, while the firm also revealed it has lost 18,000 broadband users...

• July 26, 2011 26 Jul'11

  Tate museum group chooses Drupal and cloud hosting for new website

  The Tate museum group is scrapping the use of HTML code in favour of open source content management platform Drupal...

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  US House of Representatives committee approves cybersecurity standards bill

  The US House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to increase education, research and development to counteract cyberthreats.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Businesses should prepare for Web 3.0, says Booz&Co

  The next generation of web technology will transform the way businesses work within five to ten years, research by management consulting firm Booz&Co predicts.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Automated web application attacks are the top security threat, study reveals

  Websites are attacked about 27 times an hour or once every two minutes on average, peaking at 25,000 attacks a minute or seven a second, according to research...

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  IT industry salaries rise 7.5% in 2011

  Salaries for IT professionals have risen by 7.5% to reach an average wage of over £46,000 in 2011...

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  UK confirms international cyber rules conference

  UK foreign secretary William Hague has confirmed that the government is to host an international conference on cyberspace in London on 1 and 2 November 2011.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  US court gives Oracle another chance to put its patent case against Google

  A US judge has rejected Oracle's claim for $2.6bn in damages from Google for infringing Java patents, but has given Oracle the chance to come up with a more reasonable claim...

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  DWP asks system integrators to list SME contractors to open up public sector deals

  The Department for Work and Pensions is asking its systems integrators to list the number of SMEs in their supply chains, in a move designed to open up more public sector contracts to small businesses.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  British Computer Society – the case for change

  A year on from the BCS extraordinary general meeting (EGM), Amit Bhagwat looks at how BCS has evolved, why the EGM came about and gave the results that it did, what has followed since and, how BCS might consider its future from here.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Trend Micro aims to secure consumer mobile devices for enterprises

  Security firm Trend Micro has announced an enterprise mobile management product to help organisations integrate consumer devices into an enterprise environment in a secure way.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Hacking group Anonymous claims to have hacked into NATO servers and stolen data

  Hacking group Anonymous has claimed to have hacked into NATO servers, according to the Blottr.com news service.

• July 20, 2011 20 Jul'11

  (ISC)² publishes official guide to CSSLP

  Information security body (ISC)² has published the only official guide to the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification.

• July 20, 2011 20 Jul'11

  Data breach at York University highlights urgency of security checks, says ICO

  The University of York's accidental breach of thousands of students' personal data points to a need for improved security checks, according to the Information Commissioner's Office.

• July 19, 2011 19 Jul'11

  Carphone Warehouse uses business process management to increase customer satisfaction

  Retailer Carphone Warehouse is claiming a 25% jump in its customer satisfaction ratings after investing in BPM software to help staff deal with sales, queries and complaints.

• July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11

  Sainsbury’s debuts mobile shopping site

  Retailer Sainsbury's has launched a mobile version of its website to extend its commerce platform to additional channels. The optimised mobile site is built using a mobile platform provided by Usablenet. The platform provides access to over 15,000 ...

• July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11

  Public-funded bodies must open data, transparency chief tells Demos

  All bodies in receipt of public sector funding should be made to open up their data, said Tim Kelsey, the government's adviser on transparency and open data.

• July 14, 2011 14 Jul'11

  CIO interview: Phil Pavitt, HM Revenue & Customs

  HM Revenue & Customs CIO Phil Pavitt talks to Computer Weekly about the biggest and most challenging tasks in public sector IT. Pavitt discusses his overhaul of the department's IT; tackling spending cuts; public sector IT strategy and the role of ...

• July 13, 2011 13 Jul'11

  Central government staff lack skills in IT

  A significant proportion of civil servants lack skills in areas such as IT, a National Audit Office report has found.