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• January 31, 2012 31 Jan'12

  Website launched to monitor cloud computing suppliers

  A website has been launched that will monitor the performance of specialist cloud computing suppliers and compare them against traditional IT suppliers.

• December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11

  RIM rebuffs Amazon and Microsoft approaches

  Amazon considered buying troubled smartphone maker, Research in Motion, according to a report on Reuters.

• December 09, 2011 09 Dec'11

  Martha Lane Fox launches Government Digital Service

  The launch of the Government Digital Service will “fundamentally transform the lives of millions,” says digital champion Martha Lane Fox.

• December 06, 2011 06 Dec'11

  Google chairman Eric Schmidt meets EC competition chief ahead of charges

  Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has met Europe's competition commissioner amid reports the European Commission (EC) is preparing a 400-page document outlining Google's alleged anti-competitive practices.

• 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 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 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  RBS and Natwest online banking down after maintenance glitch

  Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Natwest customers were unable to access online or telephone banking over the weekend after maintenance issues.

• October 10, 2011 10 Oct'11

  Google previews new Dart web programming language

  Google has introduced a new programming language, Dart , for building web applications.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  New Look increases sales by 45% after mobile site launch

  Fashion retailer New Look has increased sales by 45% three months after the launch of its mobile commerce site.

• September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11

  IT development underpinning Universal Credits comes under fire from MPs and experts

  The delivery of Universal Credits is coming under fire as observers are casting an increasingly critical eye on the IT systems underpinning the politically sensitive project.

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Sabre develops apps marketplace for travel industry

  Sabre, the global distribution system for reserving hotels, airlines, cruise ships, rail tickets and car hire, has taken the concept of the app store and applied in to its own travel market.

• September 08, 2011 08 Sep'11

  University challenge: using IT to improve services and reduce costs

  Universities face a balancing act as they become increasingly expected to improve the experiences of more demanding students while making budgets go further, and IT is a critical tool in finding this balance.

• September 07, 2011 07 Sep'11

  CIO interview: Mike Bracken, UK government director of digital

  Whitehall is not exactly known for being at the bleeding edge of technological innovation. But as the newly appointed government director of digital, Mike Bracken is set to change that perception. In an exclusive interview, he discusses the ...

• August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11

  Government moves Alpha.gov.uk one-stop website to beta phase for public testing

  The government has moved an alpha version of a pilot website - which could replace all .gov.uk URLs - to beta.

• August 02, 2011 02 Aug'11

  Tesco signs eight-year deal to use Microsoft products and services

  Tesco has signed a software licensing and services deal with Microsoft aimed at helping improve the retail giant's global productivity and international growth.

• 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.

• 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 12, 2011 12 Jul'11

  Twitter uses Acquia to provide Drupal-based development community site

  Twitter has launched a new developer community site using open source content management system (CMS) Drupal, provided by Acquia.

• July 01, 2011 01 Jul'11

  DWP adds agile development into IT contracts for £2bn Universal Credit system

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has modified contracts governing the supply of its £2bn Universal Credit system by adding clauses encouraging agile development.

• June 23, 2011 23 Jun'11

  Interactive crime maps allow victims to track cases

  The government will extend its interactive crime maps site to enable victims to track their cases online, according to Nick Herbert, minister of state for policing and criminal justice.

• May 19, 2011 19 May'11

  Microsoft attempts to cement Azure values at TechEd Atlanta

  "Cloud Power Delivered" is the subtitle of this year's Microsoft TechEd conference, held in Atlanta and attended by around 10,000 IT professionals and developers. Tim Anderson reports from the event.

• March 16, 2011 16 Mar'11

  Deutsche Bank uses social CRM to fine-tune corporate banking

  Social media is driving product development at Deutsche Bank. The banking giant is using web 2.0 technologies to engage with 1,000 of its corporate customers, to find out how it can make corporate banking run more smoothly.

• March 15, 2011 15 Mar'11

  Highlands and Islands Enterprise moves to shared services

  The Scottish government's Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) economic and community development agency has signed a deal with Atos Origin to move to a shared services model.

• March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11

  Four risk areas CIOs must consider when contracting cloud services

  CIOs should be aware of four main risks when contracting for cloud services, says analyst firm Gartner.

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Google buys price comparison website for £37.7m

  Google is to acquire UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m.

• February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11

  TCS targets SME market with cloud computing

  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has set its sites on the SME market, with the launch of a new product designed specifically for small businesses.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  IPv4 addresses will run out within eight months

  The Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA) will allocate the last remaining IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses this month, signalling a shift to the new IPv6 internet addressing scheme.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Microsoft reveals Yahoo Mail as Windows Phone 7 data charge culprit

  Microsoft has admitted a problem between its Windows Phone Mail client and Yahoo Mail has caused the excessive Windows Phone 7 (WP7) data charges.

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Rackspace launches system administrator app

  Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment.

• December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10

  Government shelves FiReControl

  The government’s costly and overrunning FiReControl project has been axed. FiReControl has been cancelled because of serious delays with the EADS contract (now Cassidian) which began in 2004 and cost £225m.

• September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07

  Presence capabilities open university help desk

  Presence capabilities have helped one university ensure that calls into its help desk reach the person with the right set of skills.

• September 06, 2007 06 Sep'07

  Citrix adds Web security with acquisition

  Citrix Systems Inc. said it acquired XML security vendor QuickTree for its compiler technology and Java API for XML processing.

• July 17, 2007 17 Jul'07

  Oracle plans 46 security updates for database, software

  Attackers could tamper with database servers and host operating systems by exploiting flaws across Oracle's product line.

• July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07

  SOA, Web services security gaining priority at large enterprises

  All enterprises will have to find tools to secure Web services as Web-based languages, such as extensible markup language (XML) will be gradually introduced into system architectures.

• March 25, 2007 25 Mar'07

  EMC CEO tips hat on future storage plans

  At a media event in Sydney, EMC CEO, Joe Tucci said the company is working on storage tuned to the needs of Web 2.0 apps and also plugged the company's deduplication product.

• March 14, 2007 14 Mar'07

  Podcast: Security360 - SOA, Web Services Security

  ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg offers an overview of the security issues unique to SOA environments, while executives from SAP and Oracle discuss how they address SOA security in their software.

• February 20, 2007 20 Feb'07

  Cisco to acquire Reactivity for $135 million

  One analyst says Cisco will benefit from Reactivity's policy and threat management capabilities.

• September 26, 2006 26 Sep'06

  Burton Group: Web application firewall market maturing

  Web application firewalls have improved performance and functionality, but it still takes time, knowledge and skills to implement them, according to a recent Burton Group report.

• April 11, 2006 11 Apr'06

  SOA confuses IT heads

  Confusion surrounding the real benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) means CIOs are wrongly dismissing it as a cynical marketing ploy.

• January 13, 2006 13 Jan'06

  Oracle bundles Fusion tools into one-stop SOA suite

  Oracle is offering a one-stop shop to customers seeking to build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by bundling together several middleware products.

• September 26, 2005 26 Sep'05

  Gartner stresses SOA and WS importance

  Leading analyst stresses importance of SOA and web services

• June 03, 2005 03 Jun'05

  Quiz: Identify and analyze Web server attacks, answer No. 4

  Quiz: Identify and analyze Web server attacks, answer No. 4

• June 03, 2005 03 Jun'05

  Quiz: Identify and analyze Web server attacks, answer No. 2

  Quiz: Identify and analyze Web server attacks, answer No. 2

• July 02, 2002 02 Jul'02

  FTC suggests search sites disclose deals

  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has suggested that search engine Web sites tell users when they are taking money from other...