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• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  US and EU hold first joint cybersecurity exercise

  The US and EU are holding their first joint cybersecurity exercise in Brussels on 3 November 2011, involving more than 20 EU member states and supported by the EU's cybersecurity agency Enisa and the US Department of Homeland Security.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  SAP on track to achieve 2011 greenhouse gas emissions target

  Enterprise software maker SAP decreased greenhouse gas emissions by 2% per employee in the quarter ended 30 September, compared with the same period in 2010, according to the company's quarterly sustainability report.

• 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 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.

• 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

  MoD calls on academics, industry and inventors to pitch cyber security ideas

  The Ministry of Defence is calling for innovative solutions from academia and industry to protect and secure UK interests in cyberspace.

• November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11

  Government trials voice recognition for Universal Credit benefit claims

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is testing a voice recognition system to authenticate claimants of its flagship Universal Credits system, as part of the department's work on identity assurance (IDA).

• November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11

  Hague calls for collaboration to realise full potential of cyberspace

  It is increasingly clear that countries with weak cyber defences and capabilities will find themselves at a serious strategic disadvantage given the rise of state-sponsored cyber attacks, according to foreign secretary William Hague.

• 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

  Government earmarks £10m for Identity Assurance

  Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has earmarked £10m for implementation of the government's Identity Assurance (IDA) programme, with the cash coming from its £650m cyber defence fund - with the potential for more near £1bn of savings if the ...

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Are network performance monitoring tools ready to meet new challenges?

  Network performance monitoring tools must adapt to handle virtual infrastructure, new applications and hybrid cloud environments. Are they ready?

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Japan may be facing sustained cyber attack

  Japan's mapping agency is the latest in a series of government agencies to be targeted by hackers, raising fears that the breaches are part of a series of sustained attacks.

• 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

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Samsung overtakes Apple in global smartphone shipments

  Samsung has overtaken Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments after Apple suffered its lowest levels of shipments in two years

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Facebook admits to 600,000 cyber attacks a day

  Facebook has revealed that every 24 hours it receives around 600,000 logins to the social networking website from impostors attempting to access users' messages, photos and other personal information.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  UKtech50: We launch the search for the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has launched the second annual UKtech50, the definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the leaders driving the creation of a high-tech economy.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  What can a CIO learn from Steve Jobs?

  Steve Jobs might have been a product and marketing wonder kid but there are lots of lessons CIOs can learn from his method.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

  The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  UK security strategy draws on growing expertise across Whitehall

  The UK's soon-to-be-released cyber security strategy includes input from policy makers across government, says Nigel Harrison of the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (OCSIA).

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Open University expands computer-aided teaching portal for educators worlwide

  The Open University has completed the second stage of a £2.5m Department of Education funded initiative to deliver computer-aided teaching to the classroom.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Survey finds UK IT jobs concentrated in London and south-east England

  With software houses and the financial services sector creating by far the most permanent IT jobs, career opportunities are being condensed into south-east England.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Software skills survey reveals SQL highest in demand followed by C programmers

  The latest survey from Salary Services Limited (SSL) has revealed the software skills most in demand in the latest quarter of 2011.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  US Tennis Association cuts costs running Citrix XenApp in Amazon cloud

  The US Tennis Association (USTA) is reducing disaster recovery, hosting, helpdesk and licencing costs after choosing to run its Citrix XenApp environment in Amazon's Web Services (AWS) cloud.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  HP announces U-turn to keep PC division after Whitman completes internal review

  HP has reversed its decision to spin-off the company's PC division following an internal review by CEO Meg Whitman, who replaced form head Leo Apotheker in September.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?

  SAP notched up the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in software and software-related services, but with the last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product way back in 2005, how is the company achieving ...

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  IP network critical to video technology at FA’s St George's Park development

  The Football Association (FA) is implementing the latest networking and video technology at its coaching and education centre. The St George's Park centre will be the FA's second major centre alongside Wembley, where operations are currently centred.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  Case Study: How RBS built a business case for virtual desktops to cut costs

  With an annual technology spend of £1.5bn, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) wanted to move 55,000 of its users to a virtual desktop platform to change the way its employees work and cut costs. Mark Diamond, CIO at RBS, shares his lessons learnt in ...

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?

  The last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? Warwick Ashford reports

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  VMware-based server consolidation yields long-term savings

  Avis achieved long-term cost savings and efficiencies with a VMware-based server consolidation. Its transformation won the Best Virtualisation and Server Consolidation Project award at VMworld Europe.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  US and Canadian subscribers sue RIM over Blackberry service outage

  Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is facing legal action by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day services outage in mid-October caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  How Unilever took control of its software

  Unilever has automated the processes it uses to manage its software globally through a service which has saved millions of pounds, reduced the complexity of its software portfolio and improved security.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  Amazon sees profits plummet 73% as company eyes iPad’s market share

  Amazon's profits plunged 73% to $63m in Q3, as it invested to take on the iPad with its e-readers and Kindle Fire tablet computer. Sales grew 44% to $10.88bn, boosted by pre-orders for the Amazon Kindle Fire.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  One in five IT staff expected to quit current employer within 12 months

  One in five IT staff are likely to leave their current employer next year in search of more interesting projects and career opportunities, while 80% feel they need a job change to progress their career, according to exclusive research.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  John McCarthy, father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of LISP language, dies aged 84

  The artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the heart of this field of study.

• October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11

  Virgin Media Business sees sales increase by 1.2 per cent

  Virgin Business Media saw its sales increase by 1.2% to £154m compared to the same period last year, as the company saw an increase in public sector business.

• October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11

  Commonwealth launches web portal to connect two billion citizens

  The Commonwealth Secretariat has launched a social media portal to enable the two billion citizens of its 54 member states to collaborate on common issues.

• October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11

  New skills initiative aims to help young people into IT security career

  A new skills development initiative hasbeen launched to encourage more young people to start a career in information security.

• October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11

  Microsoft claims most Android smartphone manufacturers now pay patent fees

  Microsoft has claimed most Android smartphone manufacturers now pay the software giant patent fees.

• October 24, 2011 24 Oct'11

  UK broadband speeds increase, but thousands left in the slow lane

  Thirty percent of UK internet traffic is now at speeds above 5Mbps, an increase of 70% compared to last year.

• October 24, 2011 24 Oct'11

  Wikileaks turns to fundraising as US finance companies cut off donations

  Wikileaks has stopped publishing whistle-blowing information to concentrate on raising funds in the face of bankruptcy. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says a blockade by US finance companies has cut off 95% of the organisation's revenue from ...

• October 24, 2011 24 Oct'11

  Apple loses tablet market share as iPad yields 27% to Google Android devices

  Apple's share of the tablet market has shrunk 29% to 67%, as Google's mobile operating system Android took a chunk out of the company's global sales during the last quarter this year with a rise of 27% from 2.3% for the same period a year earlier.

• October 24, 2011 24 Oct'11

  Why do big IT projects fail? Part one: The professionals

  Academics, CIOs, lawyers, a professor of outsourcing, a consultant and an investigative journalist answer the question on the minds of many a business and IT professional: Why do big IT projects fail?

• October 21, 2011 21 Oct'11

  HP will not replace retiring CTO Shane Robison

  Hewlett-Packard has announced its chief strategy and technology officer, Shane Robinson, will retire at the end of October - and won't be replaced.

• October 21, 2011 21 Oct'11

  Winner's photo: iPod Shuffle

  A member of the audience wins an iPod Shuffle for attending the Best of VMworld User Awards

• October 20, 2011 20 Oct'11

  Cloud ERP to be adopted by hundreds of Maruti Suzuki suppliers

  Maruti Suzuki plans to persuade its tier-2 suppliers to adopt cloud ERP. Learn more about the challenges involved and Maruti's cloud ERP adoption targets.

• October 19, 2011 19 Oct'11

  Research in Motion unveils Blackberry BBX mobile operating system

  At the Blackberry DevCon Americas 2011 conference, RIM said its BBX OS combines elements of its Blackberry OS platform and QNX OS.

• October 19, 2011 19 Oct'11

  Intel posts record third quarter profits on back of netbook PC sales growth

  Intel's Q3 results saw sales grow 28% year-on-year to reach $14.2bn, up $3.1bn. Profit grew 17% year-on-year to reach $3.5bn, up $513m. Intel's PC client group sales increase 22% compared to 2010 figures to $9.4bn.

• October 18, 2011 18 Oct'11

  Disaster Recovery Not Keeping Up With Cloud

  A recent survey by Acronis reveals that companies aren't updating their DR plans as they move to cloud solutions.

• October 18, 2011 18 Oct'11

  VMworld 2011: Kaiser Permanente splits systems support to reduce helpdesk toll

  Kaiser Permanente, a supplier of electronic patient records to US clinicians, has re-engineered its IT service delivery to split high availability and performance. This will allow it to streamline support and maintain a life-critical medical system.