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• February 16, 2012 16 Feb'12

  Cisco wants EU to reconsider Microsoft Skype deal

  Cisco is calling on European Union authorities to reconsider the unconditional approval of Microsoft’s $8.5bn acquisition of Skype.

• February 14, 2012 14 Feb'12

  President of European Parliament critical of Acta

  After a weekend of public protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (Acta), the president of the European Parliament has added his voice to those of critcs.

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IT professionals prioritise Windows 7 upgrade, but cloud takes a back seat

  Windows 7 upgrade will drive virtualisation but businesses are slow to take up cloud computing

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IT services providers sign up to apprentice scheme

  UK IT service providers will take on more IT apprentices to help bridge the gap between education and the workplace as part of a government-backed scheme

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IE update top priority for Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft releases nine bulletins addressing 21 vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday security update on 14 February

• February 10, 2012 10 Feb'12

  Government takes on proprietary software lobby in open standards battle

  The government wants to push through open standards against vested interests keen to maintain the dominance of proprietary systems.

• February 10, 2012 10 Feb'12

  LinkedIn Q4 revenue more than doubles

  Social networking site LinkedIn has reported 2011 fourth quarter revenue of $167.7m, up 105% from Q4 2010; and net income of $6.9m, an increase of 30%

• February 09, 2012 09 Feb'12

  Cisco back on acquisition trail after record quarter

  Cisco Systems has reported record revenues of $11.5bn for the second fiscal quarter that ended 28 January 2012, up 11% on the year-ago quarter, and profits of $2.6bn or 47 cents a share, up 27%.

• February 02, 2012 02 Feb'12

  Ofcom reports UK improvement in broadband

  Boris Johnson says people should go to the pub to avoid massive rush-hour delays during the Olympics, but perhaps teleworking would be better for business

• February 02, 2012 02 Feb'12

  Cisco unveils product consolidation plan

  Cisco has unveiled details of the product line consolidation it hopes will turn around the company after its struggles with poor financial performance.

• January 30, 2012 30 Jan'12

  Microsoft puts Blackberry service on Office365

  Businesses running Microsoft Office 365 can now access Exchange Online on their BlackBerry smartphones.

• January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12

  Nokia smartphones bomb as sales drop 27%

  Nokia’s latest results for Q4 2011 show just how far the company that was once the standard choice for almost every corporate mobile user has fallen.

• January 25, 2012 25 Jan'12

  UK IT budgets under pressure in 2012

  UK IT budgets will remain flat in 2012, a worldwide survey of more than 2,500 IT professionals has revealed.

• January 25, 2012 25 Jan'12

  EC publishes proposed data protection reforms

  European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has unveiled the new European data privacy framework that includes new regulation.

• January 19, 2012 19 Jan'12

  Construction firm extends IT outsourcing

  Taylor Wimpey has extended an IT outsourcing agreement with Logica as it embarks on a major change programme.

• January 18, 2012 18 Jan'12

  Gartner: CIOs must do more to add business value

  With no increase in IT budgets for 2012, CIOs will have to balance multiple priorities, according to analyst Gartner.

• January 17, 2012 17 Jan'12

  Indian outsourcers TCS and HCL see profits boom

  Indian outsourcing companies Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HCL both saw profits grow by more than 20% in their quarterly results.

• January 17, 2012 17 Jan'12

  Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers

  Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.

• January 16, 2012 16 Jan'12

  Google mortified after staff access competitor's database

  Google said it is mortified after people working on a project in Kenya were found to have stolen the details of a competitor’s customers and used them to sell its own products.

• January 16, 2012 16 Jan'12

  Apple aims to improve working conditions for technology workforce

  Apple has published a list of all suppliers for the first time and says it will allow independent observers into its facilities around the world to monitor working conditions.

• January 16, 2012 16 Jan'12

  Rupert Murdoch attacks Barack Obama over online piracy legislation

  News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has accused Barack Obama's administration of siding with "Silicon Valley paymasters" as two anti-piracy bills go through US Congress.

• January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12

  Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations

  Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.

• January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12

  Almost a third of BI projects fail to deliver on business objectives

  Fewer than 30% of business intelligence projects meet the objectives of the business, according to research from analyst Gartner.

• January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12

  Accenture bolsters public sector skills

  Services giant Accenture has recruited two former civil servants to its ranks to boost its UK and global public sector services capabilities.

• January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12

  CES 2012: Intel demos Windows 8 touchscreen ultrabooks

  Intel used its keynote presentation at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate the merits of ultrabooks from Acer, Toshiba, Asus and LG.

• January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12

  Tim Berners-Lee supports campaign against US PIPA and SOPA

  Father of the web Berner-Lee, latest to support senator Ron Wyden's initiative against PIPA and SOPA.

• January 06, 2012 06 Jan'12

  Why CIOs must get a handle on their data woes

  Businesses are only making use of 5% of the data they collect, according to Forrester Research.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based agile testing

  IBM is acquiring cloud-based software testing company Green Hat to bolster its Rational product family.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Gartner: Enterprise software spending to rise by 6.4% in 2012

  For 2012, Gartner expects telecommunications equipment and enterprise software to see the biggest growth in spite of the looming recession.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  Shell moves SAP maintenance to Accenture

  Oil giant Shell has transferred the management of its HR and payroll applications to Accenture as part of a multi-year SAP managed service.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  RIM shareholders support plan to appoint a new chairman

  Shares in Blackberry maker Research In Motion gained 7% on Tuesday in response to news that the company plans to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.

• December 23, 2011 23 Dec'11

  Top 10 SME IT stories of 2011

  For small businesses, 2011 has been another tough year, with many continuing to batten down the hatches as the economy continues to stall. But at the same time it has also been a year of technological innovation, both in terms of SMEs using the ...

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

  Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  Adobe to release out-of-cycle patch for latest vulnerability

  Adobe has issued a security advisory about a newly discovered and still unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat which is being used in "limited, targeted attacks in the wild".

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT

  Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Framework accelerates safety-critical defence systems development

  Manufacturers and academics are collaborating in a 3.5 million project to create a software modelling framework that will speed up the development and certification of safety-critical systems used in aerospace and defence.

• November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

  Centrica CIO quits to join HP

  David Bickerton, the global chief information officer at Centrica, has resigned from the utilities giant to join Hewlett-Packard.

• November 18, 2011 18 Nov'11

  MIT scientists take a step closer to artificial intelligence

  Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an analogue silicon chip with 400 transistors that emulates the activity of a brain synapse in the first step to building truly intelligent systems.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Tesco trials in-store and online augmented reality technology

  Tesco is trialling augmented reality (AR) technology in-store and online to change how customers interact with products.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Computer Weekly wins digital publishing award

  Computer Weekly has won a prestigious publishing industry award for the product development of the year.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• November 11, 2011 11 Nov'11

  Social media is more than a number of "likes"

  The number of “likes” on Facebook, is not a measure of success according to Anthony Bradley, co-author of The Social Organisation.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Welcome to the new-look ComputerWeekly.com

  Computer Weekly has launched its brand new website - the most important online development in the brand’s 45-year history.

• November 09, 2011 09 Nov'11

  Adobe to change mobile Flash player strategy and axe European jobs

  Adobe plans to abandon its Flash player for mobile browsers and cut 750 jobs across North America and Europe as part of a reorganisation.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  City University London unveils scholarship for information leadership course

  City University London has launched its IBM Enterprise Computing scholarship to award a place on its Masters of Information Leadership (MIL) course.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  BT second quarter sales fall 2% despite 166,000 new broadband customers

  BT sales fell 2% in its fiscal Q2 despite the addition of 166,000 broadband customers and continued growth in its Openreach and Global Services businesses.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  Amazon launches lending library for Kindle e-reader users

  Amazon has launched a lending library service to allow Kindle e-reader users to borrow e-books.

• November 02, 2011 02 Nov'11

  GB Group buys Capscan for £11.2m

  Identity management technology company GB Group has acquired address management company Capscan for £11.2m.

• November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11

  Migration committee calls for opinions on minimum salary for IT staff on ICT visas

  The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is calling for opinions on whether the minimum pay of £40,000 is set at the right level for overseas employees brought to the UK on Intra Company Transfer visas (ICT)

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Barclays customers unable to log into online bank accounts

  Barclays has confirmed some customers are unable to log into online bank accounts and are experiencing slow response times