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• 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

  Vodafone rolls out Nexus S smartphone

  Vodafone remains tight-lipped over the availability of Samsung's Nexus S smartphone, which is already available at Carphone warehouse.

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  IT managers find Internet Explorer 9 fails to render websites and web applications

  With the development of Internet Explorer 9.0 near completion, ComputerWeekly.com has learned that thousands of sites and applications are incompatible with the new browser and its immediate predecessor.

• 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 07, 2011 07 Feb'11

  Elder's edge: Sales force management on cloud platform

  Elder Pharma gave up its manual processes for sales force management and went in for a public cloud platform. The results have been remarkable

• February 05, 2011 05 Feb'11

  Real-time analytics bring voice calls back in vogue

  By combining the personal touch of voice calls with the real-time analytics of Web applications, a telecoms startup hopes to make chatting on the phone more common, and more profitable.

• 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 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Vodafone protests Egyptian government propaganda on network

  Vodafone has described the Egyptian authorities' use of its network to send pro-government texts as unacceptable.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  University unified communications includes presence…and video…and IM

  As University of Birmingham rolls out its first unified communications solution, it is addressing a whole host of issues from load balancing to cultural change among staff.

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Every IPv4 address is now allocated and could run out within weeks

  It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks

• 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 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Broadband boosts BT profits to £531m

  An early return to positive cash flow at Global Services helped BT to produce earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation 7% higher on sales that fell 3%

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Interxion hits colocation sweet spot and sees market shares soar

  Colocation provider Interxion recently made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange and saw its shares soar 18%; plus more news in brief.

• 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 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

  Mobile app stores to grow over 1,000% by 2014

  Mobile application store downloads are expected to surge 117% in 2011, growing more than 1,000% by 2014.

  According to the latest figures by research...

• 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.

• 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.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Aston Martin uses Siemens NX software

  Iconic British sports car maker Aston Martin said it would standardise its global vehicle development on Siemens NX software for integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE).

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Interactive crime map site experiencing problems as millions log on

  An interactive crime map has been launched to allow people to monitor criminal activity in their area.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  ARM grows profits 47% in Q4 2010

  UK-based chip developer, ARM, has reported growth in profits and sales following increased demand for smartphone and tablet licences in the fourth quarter of 2010.

• 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.

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Salesforce.com makes Chatter social tool free for all

  Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has introduced a free version of its social collaboration tool, Chatter, for non-Salesforce.com users to accelerate...

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Vodafone restores services to Egypt after mobile shutdown

  Mobile operator, Vodafone, has restored mobile phone services in Egypt after a 24-hour shutdown.

• January 30, 2011 30 Jan'11

  Intel introduces OpenFCoE, offers cheap fibre channel over Ethernet on-ramp

  Intel has introduced a new, cheap, way to connect servers to Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, and taken a dig at other FCoE rivals along the way. But the release may not save users the real cost of a new FCoE network.

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  SMEs still lack data backup

  Many small business lack data recovery plans, despite a recent uptake in cloud adoption, according to a survey.

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  Tesco rolls out in-store mobile phone network

  Supermarket Tesco is rolling out a converged fixed and mobile voice network across its stores based on GSM technology. Cliff Saran finds out how the rollout is progressing.

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  LinkedIn reveals plans for an IPO

  Professional networking site LinkedIn has revealed plans to raise up to $175m (£110m) in an initial public offering (IPO).

• January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  Sky buys The Cloud

  BSkyB has confirmed plans to acquire UK Wi-Fi network provider The Cloud. The deal allows the broadcaster access to 5,000 public wireless hotspots

• January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked

  The personal page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was hacked and an unauthorised update was placed on it

• January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?

  Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena?

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  Cybercriminals target data in transit

  Cybercriminals are shifting away from basic "smash and grab" attacks targeting stored data to more complex methods of data harvesting in transit, security research reveals.

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband

  Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company.

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  SAP reports 25% increase in sales

  Sales of SAP software and related services grew 35% and 25% respectively during Q4 2010, compared to the same period in 2009.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  House of Fraser opens mobile shopping site

  House of Fraser has launched a mobile transactional website to widen customers' choice of shopping channels.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Gartner outlines six money-making CIO profiles

  A new generation of CIOs with skills to make the business money will replace traditional CIOs by the middle of the decade, says Gartner vice-president and researcher Ken McGee.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Spam level dips

  The recent decline in global spam was the result of a halt in the spam-sending activities of three botnets and unrest among pharmaceutical spam-sending gangs, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report has revealed.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Smart meter and smart grids: security risk or opportunity?

  A smart meter in every home in the UK by 2017 is the government plan as a first step towards a smart grid, but how can we ensure the benefits will outweigh the security risks?

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  HP to offer enterprise cloud on demand

  HP has unveiled its enterprise cloud service compute strategy, which will offer UK users computing on demand from its Wynyard datacentre.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Data management a focus for UK CIOs and the retail sector in 2011

  This could be an important year for data management, and business intelligence in particular in the UK, according to a recent survey. CIOs and retail in particular are optimistic about their IT projects.

• January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11

  Bluwan's FTTA promises cheap high-speed comms

  Start-up French wireless comms company Bluwan has previewed microwave technology that promises to slash the cost of providing high-speed broadband to rural areas to between 2% and 5% of traditional microwave and fibre networks.

• January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11

  McDonald's to roll out contactless payments in 1,200 UK stores

  Fast-food restaurant chain, McDonald's, will roll out contactless payments in all of its 1,200 UK stores by the end of October

• January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11

  Lenovo rumoured to buy NEC

  China-based Lenovo group is rumoured to be in talks with NEC to merge.