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• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  Wakefield Healthcare signs patient self-monitoring deal with BT

  Wakefield District Community Healthcare Services (WDCHS) has signed a partnership trial with BT for a system that enables patients with chronic heart failure to self-monitor.

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  Colt to offer sub-millisecond connectivity to London Stock Exchange

  Colt is enabling trading companies to connect to the London Stock Exchange datacentre in 100 microseconds, following a deal with the UK's primary trading...

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  Apple’s new Mac download store 'has serious security flaws'

  Hackers and security commentators say they have located security flaws in Apple's new Mac download store, which launched last week.

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  Amazon prices platinum AWS support at $15,000 a month

  Amazon is offering support to enterprise users using AWS with prices starting at $15,000 per month.

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  Google revamps Apps Engine

  Google has revamped its App Engine to combat reliability issues in its Datastore.

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  Facebook IPO expected early 2012

  Facebook is preparing to sell stock through an initial public offering (IPO) in 2012, according to a document published by the social networking company....

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  iTunes warning as thousands of fraudulent accounts are auctioned online

  Thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are being sold on a Chinese online auction site, according to China's Global Times.

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  Skype to boost video calling quality with Qik acquisition

  Internet telephony company Skype has agreed to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video capturing and sharing software and services.

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Expect slow adoption of Intel chipset in business

  IT departments will have a long wait before they can roll out Intel's new core processor chipset, as they will require operating system updates.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  Gartner: BI set to move from IT to users

  IT needs to prepare for a major shift in how business intelligence is delivered and used within companies, according to analyst Gartner

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  UK school networks vulnerable to attack

  UK schools are vulnerable to cyber attack, putting pupil, employee and administrative data at risk, according to security testing firm NGS Secure.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  Amazon opens developer portal for Android app store

  Amazon.com has opened a portal to allow developers to submit applications for the upcoming launch of an Amazon Appstore for devices running on Google's Android operating system (OS).

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  RIM reacts to Indian Blackberry data interception reports

  Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) says there will be no change to the security model of Blackberry Enterprise Server.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Dell bolsters security with SecureWorks acquisition

  Dell has extended its security service with the acquisition of SecureWorks. SecureWorks provides IT security services including managed security services, security and risk consulting services and threat intelligence. Dell said the acquisition ...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Nvidia showcases 3D with online community site

  Nvidia has built a web community for 3D content, which it says will enable users to access stereoscopic 3D videos and photos while using a 3D-enabled PC or notebook.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  RIM offers India lawful interception of Blackberry data

  Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has offered lawful interception in its security architecture through cloud computing from Indian operators, according...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  CES 2011: AMD unveils breakthrough netbook and tablet chip

  AMD has unveiled the Fusion family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) to power next generation HD netbooks at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Firefox seizes number one spot in Europe

  Firefox has outstripped Internet Explorer (IE) as the number one browser in Europe, according to analytics company StatCounter.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Tablets expected to dominate Vegas show

  Tablet-style computers are expected to dominate the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show that kicks off in Las Vegas on Thursday. About...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Skype faces China ban as iPhone debuts video conferencing

  Internet voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony service Skype could be banned in China as the government cracks down on what it calls illegal internet telephone providers.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Toshiba touts new Android tablet

  PC maker Toshiba will debut its second Android tablet device for web browsing, gaming and e-books this week, in a bid to rival Apple's iPad. According...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Google plans digital newsstand platform on Android devices

  Google will launch a digital newsstand to distribute newspapers and magazines on Android mobile devices.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Drastic staff cuts expected at MySpace

  The MySpace social networking site is preparing to reduce its workforce by up to half within a month, according to internet reports. As part of the...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Microsoft restores lost Hotmail messages

  Microsoft says it has resolved the problem that caused thousands of Hotmail users to lose their e-mail messages. Some 17,355 people lost their e-mails...

• January 03, 2011 03 Jan'11

  2010 Review: Top 10 analyst reports

  There is a wealth of information in our CW+ premium content service to help IT decision-makers. Here's the top 10 in 2010.

• December 31, 2010 31 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 SME IT stories

  It's been a tough year for SMEs, with many turning to IT innovation to combat a tough business climate. Read our round-up of the top IT SME stories of 2010.

• December 31, 2010 31 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 retail IT stories

  As online sales have been the only area of consistent growth in the retail sector, many players began to think seriously about their multi-channel offerings...

• December 30, 2010 30 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 business software stories

  In Computer Weekly's review of the best of the IT year in 2010, here we look back on the top 10 business software stories for 2010. Home...

• December 30, 2010 30 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 IT security stories

  In Computer Weekly's review of the best of the IT year in 2010, we look back on the top 10 IT security stories for 2010.

• December 28, 2010 28 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 financial services IT stories

  Financial services firms are the biggest spenders on IT and as such are one of the powerhouses of the UK IT sector. We look back at the top 10 financial services stories from 2010.

• December 27, 2010 27 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 cloud computing stories

  The IT industry has embraced cloud computing in 2010. Businesses started pilot deployments, while the major suppliers opened new green datacentres around...

• December 27, 2010 27 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 social media stories

  At the start of the year, social networking and collaboration was put at the top of the agenda for CIOs. Despite privacy risks, organisations embraced the use of social media - even to recruit staff - while other top tech firms were criticised for ...

• December 24, 2010 24 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 mobile technology stories

  Computer Weekly's top 10 mobile technology stories for 2010.

• December 24, 2010 24 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 PC and desktop stories

  The PC has been at the heart of business for 30 years. In this time, it has replaced centralised computing, become a window onto the web, and a tool for collaboration.

• December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10

  2010 Review: The 10 most-read stories of the year

  This year we've seen coal miners trapped for 68 days in Chile, Prince William and Kate Middleton announce their engagement and the World Cup. But what were...

• December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10

  Windows Phone 7 OS sales reach 1.5 million

  Microsoft has reported phone manufacturer sales of its Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mobile operating system (OS) have reached 1.5 million within six weeks of launch.

• December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10

  Mozilla launches new Firefox 4 beta

  Mozilla has launched a new Firefox 4 beta, with improved desktop-to-mobile synchronization and hardware acceleration powered by WebGL.

• December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10

  Microsoft scraps controversial anti-piracy programme

  Microsoft has scrapped its an anti-piracy programme Office Genuine Advantage.

  The programme checked whether customers were running legal copies of...

• December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10

  Viewsonic upgrade G-Tablet software after user interface complaints

  Viewsonic has released a software upgrade for its G-Tablet after receiving customer complaints about the user interface (UI).

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Net neutrality: FCC set to legalise traffic management

  US communications industry regulator Federal Communications Commission is set to alter the economics of the web in a way that would bias certain types of network traffic, Reuters has reported.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Hansard considers cloud to escape Microsoft lock-in

  Whitehall techies proposed putting Hansard in the cloud to escape restrictions imposed by Microsoft's proprietary multimedia standards.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Minister launches East End ‘tech hub’ event

  David Willetts, minister for Universities and Science, hosted the first in a series of Shoreditch-based technology events last night.

  The clinic, with...

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  SEC investigates possible Hurd insider dealing

  The Securities and Exchanges Commission in the US is investigating whether former HP CEO Mark Hurd passed on information about the technology giant's acquisition...

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Google says sorry, deletes all UK Street View Wi-Fi data

  Google has deleted all UK payload data collected by its Street View cars from unsecured British Wi-Fi networks, the company has confirmed.

• 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.

• December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10

  Microsoft forced to recall Outlook 2007 update

  Microsoft has recalled an update to Microsoft...

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Case study: European Medicines Agency and CAST

  The European Medicines Agency, which is responsible for evaluating medical products across Europe, expects to cut millions of Euros from its software development costs after rolling out software to automatically identify programming errors in ...

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Oracle makes $2bn software sales as executives talk up hardware

  Oracle sold $2billion new software licences in its second quarter of 2010. Software license updates and product support revenues were up 12% to $3.6...

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Open source body challenges €189m EC software deal

  The open source lobby has challenged the €189m software contract struck by the European Commission last month.

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Nokia escalates Apple patent row with 13 new infringement claims

  Nokia's patent war with Apple escalated yesterday, as the Finnish-based manufacturer filed 13 more infringement claims against the technology giant.

• December 16, 2010 16 Dec'10

  Video: Oracle releases Open Cloud Office 3.3

  Oracle has introduced Oracle Cloud Office and Open Office 3.3, office productivity suites for the desktop, web and mobile devices.

• December 16, 2010 16 Dec'10

  Enterprise social software sales grow 15% to $664m

  Enterprise social software sales reached $664m (£425m) in 2010, a 15% increase from 2009, according to Gartner.

• December 16, 2010 16 Dec'10

  Office 2010: beware of enterprise problems

  Forrester Research has warned that companies planning or in the middle of an upgrade to Office 2010 face a lengthy deployment process.

• December 16, 2010 16 Dec'10

  Twitter raises $200m and adds two new board members

  Twitter has raised $200m (£128.2m) to further expand the micro-blogging site. Since launching in 2007 it has now raised about $360m.

• December 16, 2010 16 Dec'10

  Google provides Chrome deployment tools for IT administrators

  Google has developed controls and tools to help IT administrators configure and deploy its Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux.

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  Can Salesforce.com push enterprise on-premise databases into the cloud?

  Salesforce.com wants enterprises to move data management to the cloud with its database-as-a-service.

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  Five life-changing innovations for the next five years

  IBM predicts five innovations that will change our behaviour over the next five years.

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  £500m framework agreement centralises local government software purchasing

  The government is setting up a framework agreement worth £500m on behalf of local government, in one of the first examples of software for local councils being bought centrally.

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  HP to create 105 new jobs in Ireland

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) is creating 105 new jobs within its global IT organisation based in Galway, Ireland.

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  Atos Origin acquires Siemens division for €850m

  Atos Origin has acquired Siemens IT division for €850m (£720m) to create a company with sales of around €8.7bn and 78,500 employees worldwide.

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  Flash Cloud: Adobe Flash Server from $5 per month on Amazon

  Adobe Flash Media Server is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  Parliament pushes open standards to increase public engagement

  Parliament has adopted a policy to use open technology standards to increase public participation in political debate.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Cornwall council to save £20m with ERP

  Cornwall Council is investing in an Oracle ERP system, which it estimates will save £20m over the next five years.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Transport for London routes real-time data to developers via Microsoft Azure

  Using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, Transport for London (TfL) has made its real-time tube travel information available to mobile application developers.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Dell tries again at virtualised storage with Compellent acquisition

  Having being outbid by HP on its recent attempt to buy storage virtualisation firm 3Par, Dell has now acquired Compellent Technologies, which also provides virtualised storage.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Deutsche Bank selects TCS core banking system

  Deutsche Bank is replacing multiple legacy systems with a banking platform from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as it updates its global transaction banking.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  IT departments must use agile programming properly to reap the benefits

  IT departments are failing to reap the benefits of agile programming because they are not using it in the way it was intended, it was claimed today.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Gartner: SaaS sales will grow 16.2% to $10.7bn in 2011

  Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) sales will reach $9bn this year, up 15.7% from 2009, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Dell buys virtualised data storage firm Compellent for $960m

  Dell has announced an agreement to acquire virtualised data storage company Compellent for $960m (£605m) to expand its enterprise storage offering.

• December 13, 2010 13 Dec'10

  Localism Bill extends move to open data

  The government has put open data at the heart of its Localism Bill, which outlines plans to give more power to local councils.

• December 13, 2010 13 Dec'10

  Tesco Bank uses Attachmate to provide mainframe access in call centre

  Tesco Bank is using Attachmate's Reflection 2008 to support general insurance calls in its customer service systems.

• December 13, 2010 13 Dec'10

  Amazon outage due to ‘hardware failure’ not hackers

  The outage on Amazon's European sites yesterday was due to a hardware failure, not hackers, the company has said. The UK, Italian, German and Spanish sites went down for about half an hour on Sunday night.

• December 13, 2010 13 Dec'10

  European Commission IT chief tackles open source lobby over €189m contract

  The European Commission (EC) IT chief has taken the open source lobby to task over a €189m (£158m) deal the EC signed last week, its largest ever software deal.

• December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10

  West Wales pilots LTE wireless using digital switchover TV spectrum

  Wireless technology is being piloted in the Preseli Mountains, West Wales, which could overcome the issue of dead spots in broadband coverage in rural areas

• December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10

  Birmingham adopts US gunfire detection technology

  Safer Birmingham Partnership, a joint partnership between West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council, has deployed technology which can detect gun shot fire from up to two kilometres away within a 25-metre radius.

• December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10

  Facebook founder Zuckerberg to give away most of his money

  Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, has pledged to give away most of his wealth.

• December 09, 2010 09 Dec'10

  AstraZeneca develops lung cancer resource for iPhone

  AstraZeneca UK has developed an iPhone, iTouch and iPad application which has been designed as an educational resource for UK geneticists, pathologists and medical oncologists.

• December 09, 2010 09 Dec'10

  Government departments told to upgrade to Windows 7

  CESG, the Information Assurance (IA) arm of GCHQ, has given the green light to Windows 7 and is encouraging government departments to upgrade to the operating...

• December 09, 2010 09 Dec'10

  Financial services slow to use cloud

  The financial services...

• December 09, 2010 09 Dec'10

  Nottingham University combats denial of service

  The University of Nottingham has implemented log management and security information and event management (SIEM) to avoid distributed denial of service attacks...

• December 09, 2010 09 Dec'10

  Salesforce.com acquires Ruby on Rails firm Heroku for £134m

  Salesforce.com has acquired cloud application platform for Ruby-based applications, Heroku, for $212m (£134m) in a bid to champion the Ruby on Rails framework.

• December 09, 2010 09 Dec'10

  Visa and Mastercard targeted by hackers over Wikileaks row

  Online retailing was disrupted yesterday when Visa and Mastercard were targeted by hackers following the firms' refusal to process Wikileaks...

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  G20 makes use of secure social networking environment

  For the first time in the history of the G20 world financial leaders and policy makers used secure social networking software to collaborate before, during...

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Rural SMEs neglected in broadband plans

  Despite government plans...

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Microsoft IE9 browser will help block user profiling

  Microsoft says the IE9 browser due for release early in 2011 will include tools to enable users to control what data is collected about their activities online.

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Salesforce.com introduces free Chatter for enterprises

  Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has introduced a free version of its Chatter ...

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Salesforce.com debuts cloud database in competition with Oracle

  Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing firm, has introduced a database-as-a-service (DbaaS) product, Database.com at its annual conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco.

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Google Chrome OS laptop challenges the traditional PC

  Google has unveiled an internet-based laptop running its Chrome operating system, challenging the traditional model of personal computing.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  €189m European Commission sofware deal "contradicts" EU guidelines

  The European Commission's (EC) largest ever software contract is in "direct contradiction" of EU guidelines, according to campaign group Free Software Foundation...

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  SaaS adoption creates downtime risk, says NCC Group

  Growing adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) to perform mission-critical finance functions is creating risk of costly downtime, says the NCC Group.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Study finds businesses unready for risks from new technology

  Less than a third of global businesses have an IT risk management programme capable of dealing with the risks related to the use of new technologies, a study has revealed.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Gartner predicts expansive - but expensive - future for SharePoint apps

  Business applications on Microsoft's SharePoint could become as popular as the iPhone apps within five years, Gartner predicts.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Standard Life to acquire software supplier Focus Solutions for £42m

  Edinburgh-based financial services group Standard Life is buying a software firm for £42m to help develop its insurance offerings to customers and intermediaries

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Cloud computing will boost UK economy by €30bn a year

  The adoption of cloud computing could give the UK a total economic benefit of about €30bn a year from 2015, according to research. The EMC commissioned...

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Juniper Networks buys security company Altor Networks

  Juniper Networks has acquired virtualisation security technology firm Altor Networks for $95m.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Case study: IoD saves times and resources by consolidating web security

  The Institute of Directors has reduced its security management overheads by consolidating security infrastructure.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Quacquarelli Symonds pays £80,000 for using unlicensed software

  Quacquarelli Symonds Consulting Limited has paid out £80,000 after it was found using unlicensed software, according to the Business Software Alliance.

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  Cisco and BMC join forces for cloud computing

  Cisco and BMC Software are joining forces to support large-scale, multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructures.

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  India’s CBI hack shows cyberspace is now a battleground

  A hacking attack on a key investigative agency of the Indian government shows that cyberspace is increasingly becoming a battleground, say security experts.