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March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11
Mobile ticketing users to treble by 2015

The number of people redeeming travel and entertainment tickets via their mobile phones is set to treble by 2015, according to a report by Juniper Research.
March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11
Avis CIO hands in the keys after three years at the wheel

Adam Gerrard is to leave the post of chief information officer of Avis after three and a half years
March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11
IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour

Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade....
March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11
Apple and Google top most admired list

IT companies are considered some of the most admired companies in the world with Apple and Google leading the pack.

March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11
Industry calls on employers to say what security skills are needed

The National Skills Academy for IT is calling on employers to address the cyber security skills gap by sharing views on the most useful courses and qualifications.
March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11
Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud

The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it"
March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11
France's G20 files target of cyber attack

France's files on the G20 meetings were the target of a cyber attack, the country's finance minister has confirmed.
March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11
HSBC uses token to secure smartphone banking

HSBC is sending four million online banking customers a security token which will enable them to log in to their online bank account wherever they are, without using a card reader.
March 03, 2011 03 Mar'11
Government increases pay rates for offshore workers in the UK

The government has increased the salaries oversees workers must be paid if they are to come to the UK.
March 02, 2011 02 Mar'11
Government publishes first contract in transparency drive

The first contract to be published under the government's new transparency drive has been posted on BusinessLink's Contract Finder website.

March 02, 2011 02 Mar'11
Government losing billions by not moving to the cloud

The public sector could be making unnecessary redundancies due to a reluctance to innovate in IT and shift to the cloud, says former CIO John Suffolk
March 02, 2011 02 Mar'11
Government needs radical approach to IT, says Institute for Government

The government needs to implement a radical new approach to IT projects, according to the recommendations of a report by independent thinktank the Institute for Government.
March 01, 2011 01 Mar'11
Intel finalises £5bn acquisition of McAfee

Intel has confirmed the completion of its $7.7bn (£5bn) acquisition of security software giant McAfee.
March 01, 2011 01 Mar'11
Government spends £9.4bn on top 10 most expensive ICT contracts

The government's top 10 most expensive IT contracts are worth a combined value of £9.44bn, Computer Weekly has found.
February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11
IT freelancers turn recruiters to cope with SME demand

Freelance IT workers in the digital services sector are being forced to recruit other freelancers to help them keep up with large volumes of work. IT...
February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11
Juniper aims to wrap Cisco with QFabric datacentre management

Datacentre operators and cloud computing suppliers could slash their power and space requirements while running up to 10 times faster
February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11
ISC releases security fix for Bind DoS vulnerability

The Internet Systems Consortium has published an advisory and an update for the Bind domain name system software versions 9.7.1 to 9.7.2-P3.
February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11
Exxon, Shell, BP hacked in Night Dragon attacks

Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were among the oil companies targeted by hackers working through internet servers in China, say US reports.
February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11
Government pushes for open standards

Open standards should be sought in all government IT procurement specifications, says the Cabinet Office
February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11
The CIO guide to being headhunted

Senior technology executives need to be aware of the pitfalls and best practices when dealing with recruitment agents and headhunters to find the best opportunity.
February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11
Middle East governments stepping up internet control, study shows

The internet has proved to be a powerful tool for rallying social and political change, but Middle East governments have also recognised their capability to disrupt communications
February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11
RSA 2011: Microsoft promotes co-ordinated vulnerability disclosure

Software producers remain largely unresponsive to input from security researchers, according to Aaron Portnoy, manager of the security research team HP TippingPoint.
February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
Government makes changes to immigration scheme

The government has announced the details of changes it will make to the Intra Company Transfer (ICT) scheme, which has been criticised for being open to...
February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
RSA 2011: RSA, EMC and VMWare advise on defending against advanced persistent threats

Security leaders have outlined ways organisations can better defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs) in a paper published by RSA, the security division of EMC.
February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11
Overhaul A-levels and improve teaching to boost science and tech student uptake, says Royal Society

An overhaul of A-levels and better teaching are needed to boost the numbers of young people progressing to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects in higher education, according to an influential new study.
February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11
Atos Origin boosts profit despite fall in sales

IT services company Atos Origin has announced full-year profits of €337m (£283m), a 6.7% year-on-year increase. However, overall sales fell by 3.5%...
February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11
Barclays Bank boosts IT staff and project spending

Barclays has boosted its technology staff and budget, according to the bank's full-year results released today.
February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11
RSA 2011: Cybersecurity leads conference with cloud security keynote

Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco.
February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11
Intellect presses government to promote IT in UK economic growth

The government has agreed to promote the role of technology in leading the UK's economic growth, following a meeting with IT industry body Intellect.
February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11
Business Software Alliance fines company £24,000 for unlicensed Microsoft software

Label company System Labelling has been fined £24,800 for using unlicensed Microsoft software.
February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11
Dell rolls out services for enterprise mobility

Dell has introduced a portfolio of services to help businesses manage mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.
February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11
Case study: Salvatore Ferragamo steps into the future with SAP

Italian shoe and other luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is standardising on SAP ...
February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11
BMW's Aida project on song with DS's V6 PLM system

BMW has selected Dassault Systèmes' V6 product lifecycle management (PLM) software for its cars' future electrical, electronics, and embedded software (E/E)...
February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11
Mobile hacker attacks will damage business in 2011

Businesses cannot afford to ignore mobile hacking attacks as they are proving extremely lucrative over shorter periods, a study of mobile threats has found.
February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11
ID card database is destroyed

The National Identity Register (NIR), which was built to hold the fingerprints and personal details of millions of ID card holders, has been publicly destroyed.
February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11
IT departments are unable to support employee devices

Security concerns are holding companies back from allowing staff to use their own technology at work.
February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11
Mobile workers practise lax security

More than half of Europeans practise unsafe networking when they work away from the office, according to research by German remote access experts NCP Engineering.
February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11
Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday outlines five critical vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released 12 security bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in its monthly security update for February
February 08, 2011 08 Feb'11
Post Office faces legal action over alleged accounting system failures

More than 50 postmasters are planning legal action against the Post Office to reclaim money they paid to the Post Office after being accused of theft and false accounting.
February 08, 2011 08 Feb'11
AXA in £150m settlement for software glitch

Financial services giant AXA will be forced to pay millions of pounds to clients after it emerged that errors in trading software were hidden by three of its subsidiaries, prompting bad performance in investment portfolios.
February 08, 2011 08 Feb'11
Businesses must learn how to defend against cyberattack, says McAfee

Cybercrime has thrived over the past decade according to recent reports from security firm McAfee, but business can expect even more dramatic change in the next ten years, researchers say.
February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11
IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010

The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum.
February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11
Barclays offshores back-office and call centre jobs to India

Barclays is cutting almost three hundred UK back-office jobs and sending the roles to India.
February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11
OFT to investigate e-book pricing

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is launching an investigation into e-book pricing.
February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11
O2 to apply for e-money licence to support NFC payments

O2 will apply for an e-money licence this year, signalling its commitment to support contactless payments in the UK in the near future.
February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11
EC plans could open up ICT procurement for SMEs

Technology start-ups and SMEs could benefit from European Commission (EC) plans to improve SME procurement.
February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11
Yahoo blames Microsoft implementation for Windows Phone 7 data charges

Yahoo has spoken out after being blamed for excessive data charges experienced by some Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users.
February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11
BBC criticised over £133m digital project

The early stages of £133m BBC technology project with Siemens have been criticised for not offering value for money.
January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11
Staffordshire Council rolls out £23m public sector network

Staffordshire County Council is to implement one of the country's first Public Sector Networks (PSN) in a £23m contract with communications provider Kcom.
January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11
Public sector outsourcing grows in the UK as commercial deals fall again

Public sector contracts accounted for 77% of the total outsourcing spending in the UK in 2010, according to the latest report from consultancy TPI.