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February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11
RSA 2011: Top attacks business will face in 2011

Social networking will be the attacker platform of choice in 2011, says Ed Skoudis, founder and senior security consultant with InGuardians.
February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11
Loomis switches to SugarCRM

Loomis, the cash-handling business formerly known as Securitas has saved thousands of pounds by switching from Salesforce.com to the open source SugarCRM product.
February 18, 2011 18 Feb'11
Business intelligence market set to grow 10% in 2011

IT managers are still investing in business intelligence (BI), with the worldwide market for BI software forecast to grow 9.7% to reach $10.8bn in 2011, according to analyst Gartner.
February 18, 2011 18 Feb'11
US regulators monitor Apple subscription service over anti-trust fears

US anti-trust regulators are considering the terms of Apple's new digital subscription service, announced earlier this week.

February 18, 2011 18 Feb'11
RSA 2011: Cyber defence must include civilian infrastructure, says US commander

Extending the government and military cyber security programme to critical civilian infrastructure is one of the top challenges facing the US, says General Keith Alexander, commander of US Cyber Command.
February 18, 2011 18 Feb'11
RSA 2011: Modern IT security often too difficult to deploy, says security technologist

Businesses need to modernise their IT defences as attackers continue to up their game, says James Lyne, senior technologist at security...
February 18, 2011 18 Feb'11
Broadband tops list of UK's favourite innovations

Home broadband is by far the best innovation of the past decade, while social networking and reality television are the two worst, according to a survey of more than 2,000 UK consumers.
February 18, 2011 18 Feb'11
RSA 2011: E-mail is still top cyber attack method

E-mail is still the top attack method for targeted and espionage attacks, say security experts
February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
Orange rolls out pre-paid contactless cash card with Mastercard

Orange has introduced its Orange Cash pre-paid card, which uses Mastercard's PayPass contactless card technology for purchases under the value of £15.
February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
London Stock Exchange works with partners to resolve technology migration problems

The London Stock Exchange says some data providers have not been able to get their systems ready for the new core trading platform to which it migrated this week.

February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
Businesses the main victim as cyber crime costs UK £27bn

Businesses are the main targets of cyber crime, which is costing the economy around £27bn a year, according to a report from the Office of Cyber Security and consultancy Detica.
February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
Coca-Cola delivers real-time tracking with BusinessObjects

Coca-Cola North America has gone live with the SAP BusinessObjects supply chain performance management application.
February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11
Google rivals Apple with One Pass digital subscription service

Google has introduced an online payment service for digital content called Google One Pass, rivalling Apple's digital subscription service announced this week.
February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11
J P Morgan trading platform consolidation threatens 3,000 jobs

J P Morgan Chase has outlined plans to ditch several trading platforms worldwide in the next three years, threatening up to 3,000 jobs.
February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11
MoD lost 57 computers and 47 USB sticks in 2010

And 85 other computers and laptops were stolen too...
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 15, 2011 15 Feb'11
Citrix Online buys Netviewer for web conferencing

Citrix has finalised its acquisition of German web conferencing specialist Netviewer, which numbers Bayer, BMW, SAP, Siemens, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom among its 18,000 customers.
February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11
MWC 2011: Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 update in March

Microsoft has confirmed an update to its Windows Phone 7 operating system will be available next month.
February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11
RSA 2011: EMC announces RSA Cloud Trust Authority for mission-critical applications

RSA, the security division of EMC has announced the RSA Cloud Trust Authority (CTA), a set of cloud-based services for secure and compliant relationships with cloud service providers.
February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11
Stonesoft discovers 124 new advanced evasion techniques

Security firm Stonesoft has announced the discovery of 124 new advanced evasion techniques (AETs) since they were first reported in October 2010.
February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11
Software industry drives revenues with licence audits

Software companies use software asset management programmes to drive up revenue, according to a report from Ernst & Young.
February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11
London Stock Exchange migrates to MillenniumIT platform

The London Stock Exchange is migrating trading to its MillenniumIT trading platform today in a move that will see its ailing .Net-based Tradelect system switched off.
February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11
Analysis: SAP targets dynamic retail market with investments and partnerships

SAP is partnering Italian luxury goods firm Salvatore Ferragamo, French supermarket group Casino and other top retailers to fine-tune its retail software.
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 10, 2011 10 Feb'11
IE9 could spark huge redevelopment costs for websites

Thousands of businesses face potentially huge costs to rewrite their external and internal websites to take advantage of new standards-based browsers
February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11
Social media policy: Seven questions to ask

Businesses must create a social media policy to guide employees using social networks and micro-blogging sites, according to Gartner.
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
Gartner: open source software gives businesses flexibility

IT departments are increasingly deploying open source software as part of their IT strategy to improve flexibility and lower licensing costs, a report from analyst Gartner has found.
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 08, 2011 08 Feb'11
Cloud market to reach $2.5bn by 2015

The worldwide cloud systems management software market will reach $2.5bn (£1.55bn) by 2015, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
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
Mobile malware up 46% in 2010, says McAfee

Malware targeting mobile devices rose 46% in 2010, according to the latest quarterly threat report from McAfee.
February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11
UK wants to host international summit on cyber security

Foreign secretary William Hague has proposed that Britain host an international summit on cyber security.

Hague offered to hold the event while speaking...
February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11
G-Cloud plans rewritten as risks of failure emerge

The scale and risk inherent in the government's ambitious plan to transfer its entire £16bn IT ecosystem into the cloud can be revealed today with the publication of reports that detail the full extent of the challenges.
February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11
Hotmail debuts alias feature to foil spammers

Hotmail has introduced an alias feature which Microsoft said would enable users to manage their online identities.
February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11
Google’s Chrome 9 points to cloud environment

Google's latest stable version of the Chrome browser introduces features such as Chrome Instant, WebGL and a Chrome Web Store.

Access to the Chrome...
February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11
East-West Institute draws up proposals for cyberwar rules of engagement

Cyber experts at the annual Munich Security Conference are to propose that global rules of engagement are established to cope with cyber weapons.
February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11
Comic Relief prepares IT for Red Nose Day 2011

The organisers of this year's Red Nose Day have released details of the IT that will support the enormous peaks of web traffic on the Comic Relief fundraising day on 18 March.
February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11
European Commission renews controversial Microsoft contract

The European Commission has extended its controversial Microsoft software contract, while under intensifying scrutiny over its deals with proprietary vendors.
February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11
Oracle users can move licences to Amazon

Businesses running Oracle will soon be able to use Amazon Web services to host the Database 11g server.
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
Ferrari goes with Infor for auto resource planning

Iconic Italian sportscar maker Ferrari is to migrate its information systems based on Baan IV to the latest version of Infor ERP LN (enterprise resource planning) software.
February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11
Telepresence 'available in the home within five years'

Businesses will roll-out high definition video conferencing to allow senior staff to work at home within four or five years, according to analyst group Gartner.
February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11
Twitter flood heralds Egypt’s return to the internet

A flood of celebratory and congratulatory tweets on Twitter has greeted the news that internet services have been restored in Egypt.
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 02, 2011 02 Feb'11
Google accuses Microsoft of copying search data

Google has accused Microsoft of using Google's search results to improve the performance of Bing, Microsoft's own search engine.
February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11
Hiscox boosts QA with Dynatrace for SOA

Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, has deployed Dynatrace, an application performance management tool, to improve its QA testing.

The insurance...
February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11
University of Salford makes £5.7m cloud computing investment

The University of Salford is embarking on a 13 month datacentre transformation project to virtualise and enable shared services.
February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11
SAP unites with Microsoft for Duet partner network

SAP and Microsoft has finally released Duet Enterprise, the product that brings together Office 2010 and the SAP ERP system.
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
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
HMRC reports 78% of tax returns filed online

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has reported 6.9 million people filed their self-assessment tax returns online this year.
February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11
Indian government threatening BlackBerry ban again

India may yet ban BlackBerry services after maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it was technically impossible to give government access to corporate e-mails.
January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11
Facebook Deals presents “major technical challenge” for businesses

The use of location-based applications, such as Facebook Deals, could present a "major technical challenge" for businesses trying to respond to user events in real-time, a chief technology officer has warned.
January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11
Google Android overtakes Nokia Symbian as top smartphone platform

Google's Android operating system has overtaken Nokia's Symbian platform to become the world's leading smartphone platform.
January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport signs deal for financial software package

Scottish transport authority the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has signed a deal with enterprise software provider TechnologyOne for a financial reporting package.
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
Cloud opens security testing to all developers, says Veracode

Cloud computing puts the security testing of applications within the reach of all developers, says application risk management firm Veracode.
January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11
Six-year project could make internet 100 times faster

The internet could be 100 times faster than it is today if a new £7.2m six-year research project, the Photonics Superhighway, is successful.
January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11
Analysis: can Sage break the mould with its SaaS for SMEs?

Sage finally looks set to develop its web strategy, having launched SageOne, a software-as-a-service application for small businesses. But is the move too little and too late for a company seen by many as stuck in its ways?
January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11
Police arrest five men over Wikileaks-related 'Anonymous' denial of service attacks

Police have arrested five men in relation to the denial of service attacks on firms that withdrew support for Wikileaks
January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11
CIO interview: Oliver Bussmann, SAP

Just over a year after joining SAP as global chief information officer (CIO), Oliver Bussmann's actions are already yielding results at the software giant, which posted its highest-ever fourth quarter software revenue today.
January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11
Australian government forces open source option

Australia's federal government has published a policy that mandates the consideration of open source software equally alongside proprietary products.
January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11
LinkedIn acquires business card scanning firm CardMunch

Professional networking site LinkedIn has acquired CardMunch, a startup that supplies technology for scanning and transcribing business cards.
January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Public trust key to making online services work

Public trust in security and data protection are central to making online and shared services work, government security heads have said.
January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Cybersecurity community 'learned valuable lessons from Conficker'

Conficker helped the cybersecurity community identify its strengths and weaknesses in defending against global threats, says a Rendon Group report.
January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Google boosts Voice with SayNow acquisition

Google has acquired California-based voice messaging start-up SayNow for an undisclosed sum.
January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Yahoo stays positive despite mixed Q4 performance

Yahoo's profit doubled to $312m or 24 cents a share for the last quarter of 2010, beating market expectations.
January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Jaspersoft delivers open source big data reporting

Open source business intelligence provider Jaspersoft has released a set of tools for running reports over large database systems.
January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Amazon launches low-cost mass e-mail service

Amazon EC2 users can send up to 2,000 free messages each day over Amazon's new Simple Email Service, for doing mailshots.
January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11
LibreOffice 3.3 launched as rival to OpenOffice

The Document Foundation has launched the free office productivity suite LibreOffice 3.3, now available for download.
January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11
Case study: Specsavers switches email from open source to Google

Specsavers has switched from an open source email system to Google Apps to deliver email and collaboration without requiring local IT support.
January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11
LibreOffice download available

The Document Foundation is set to release LibreOffice on 25 January. The LibreOffice initiative is a rival to OpenOffice. The group aims to create an open source office package independent of Oracle and Sun.
January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11
Twitter set to triple advertising revenue in 2011

Twitter will more than triple its advertising revenue to $150m in 2011 and may reach $250m in 2012 as more companies use it for marketing, according to internet research firm EMarketer.
January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11
Organ donors preferences recorded inaccurately

The preferences of 444,031 organ donors were recorded wrongly on the Organ Donation Register (ODR) because of a software problem.
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.
January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11
Many SMEs don't understand cloud computing

Despite predictions that the cloud is likely to have its biggest uptake with small businesses, many SMEs still don't what the term means, according to a survey.
January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11
BT must slash rural wholesale rates, says Ofcom

Ofcom has proposed a reduction in the prices that BT Wholesale can charge internet service providers (ISPs) in rural areas of up to 14.75% below inflation.
January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11
Larry Page reclaims Google chief executive post from Eric Schmidt

Google co-founder Larry Page is to take over as chief executive in April from Eric Schmidt, who will then become executive chairman.
January 19, 2011 19 Jan'11
UK organisations slow to realise benefits of social media, says ISF

UK organisations are getting to grips with using social media but their marketing and IT departments are still far from aligned, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF).
January 19, 2011 19 Jan'11
Microsoft SDL verifier tool available as free download

Microsoft has released Attack Surface Analyzer beta, a tool the company has used internally for five years to help IT departments tackle IT security.
January 19, 2011 19 Jan'11
2010 IT security threats point to priorities for 2011, says Sophos

Cyber threats of 2010 highlight the top risks to business for 2011, including social media sites, whistleblowers, and hacktivists, warns security firm Sophos.
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
Tayside police tweet on the beat

Police officers in Tayside, Scotland, will be tweeting on the beat from today.
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
Internet-connected platforms set to overtake traditional web browsers

Desktop browsers will not be the primary point of access for web users in the future, according to a report.
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
New Facebook application permissions raise security concerns

New functionality which allows third-party application developers to access Facebook members' addresses and mobile phone numbers, has raised security concerns
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
Google operating systems will outstrip Apple iOS by 2015

Google's operating systems for smartphones and tablet-style devices will dominate the market by 2015, pushing Apple's iOS into second place, according to research from Ovum.
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
Mozilla releases Firefox 4 beta 9 for download

Mozilla has released a Firefox 4 beta to improve browser start-up times, bookmarking and complex animations.
January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11
Microsoft to halve school licence fees

Many schools will have their software licence fees cut by more than half as Microsoft changes its method for calculating payment.
January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11
Sainsbury's programmer jailed for £73,000 Nectar card fraud

A former Sainsbury's lead analyst programmer has been jailed for stealing more than £73,000 in Nectar reward points
January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11
Blackberry launches WebWorks SDK beta for tablet OS and smartphones

Research in Motion (RIM) has launched a beta version of new development tools for the Blackberry tablet operating system (OS) and Blackberry smartphones.
January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11
Apple releases new iOS beta version to developers

Apple has released a beta version of its iOS operating system – iOS 4.3 beta is available through the iOS Dev Centre.
January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11
Mobile security a hot topic at Infosecurity Europe 2011

Mobile and smartphone security likely will be one of the top threats to be discussed at Infosecurity Europe 2011...
January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11
The Defectives: new group aims to link up bug hunters

Software testers now have their very own community, the Defectives, set up by software testing consultancy ROQ IT
January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11
Sony takes legal action against PS3 hackers

Sony is taking legal action against a group of hackers that has uncovered the security codes for the PlayStation 3 gaming console.
January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11
What can businesses learn about real-time monitoring from the BP oil spill?

The full report on the BP oil-well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has been released, revealing that its real-time data monitoring systems need to be improved.
January 12, 2011 12 Jan'11
Social media IPOs: Eight investment issues of social network companies

Speculation is rife that the social media sector is about to become awash with IPOs, as investors clamour to stake their claims in what appears to be a land grab for the space. But despite fears of a 'bubble 2.0', are the likes of Twitter and ...
January 12, 2011 12 Jan'11
Is speed performance hiding security effectiveness in your business?

Security suppliers typically compete on performance or throughput of their appliances, but the fastest is not necessarily the most secure.
January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11
Toptable.com selects Zeus Technology software for traffic management

Restaurant-booking site, Toptable.com, has chosen Zeus Technology's software-based traffic management application to manage its web traffic.
January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11
Microsoft forced to investigate Windows Phone 7 data bug complaints

Microsoft is investigating data usage by Windows Phone 7 devices after internet forums have been flooded with complaints about unidentified data use charges