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October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
ID card officials back away from scandal-hit database

Government plans to store ID card biometrics data on a controversial system used by thousands of public workers might be scrapped.
October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
Windows Mobile 6.5 lacks the touch

Microsoft has released Windows Mobile 6.5, the company's latest attempt to establish a mobile phone business and offer an alternative to the iPhone and Google Android-based devices.
October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
Loewe bags extra profit with TXT

Fashion retailer Loewe has cut time to market by 10% and reduced stock-outs by 50% after revamping its product lifecycle and supply chain management systems.
October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
Italy joins ITU's cybersecurity network

The International Telecommunications Union's Impact global cybersecurity alerting system ...

October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
CSC seeks new $2.bn deal with Zurich Financial Services

Zurich Financial Services Group has entered exclusive negotiations with IT outsourcer CSC 10-year contract valued at $2.4bn.
October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
Microsoft launches a store for Windows Mobile apps

Microsoft has unveiled its version of the Apple AppStore dubbed Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09
Adobe brings Flash to iPhone

Adobe Systems has given a sneak peak of Adobe Flash Professional CS5, which now supports the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
October 05, 2009 05 Oct'09
BAA simplifies with Windows 7 to slash a third off IT costs

BAA, which runs seven airports in the UK including Heathrow, is deploying Windows 7 as part of a five-year pan to slash IT costs.

The company has chosen...
October 05, 2009 05 Oct'09
Windows 7 not the last of major OS releases

The launch of Windows 7 later this month is unlikely to be the last major operating system release from Microsoft.

Speaking at an even to promote...
October 05, 2009 05 Oct'09
Windows 7 launch: Ballmer rules out licensing changes

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has ruled out reviewing its user licences, despite acknowledging the fine print and complexity can cause headaches for customers.

October 05, 2009 05 Oct'09
Ballmer spearheads Windows charm offensive

Steve Ballmer, chief executive office at Microsoft sent out an open letter to business leaders this week, touting the bottom-line benefits of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010.
October 02, 2009 02 Oct'09
Video: Flickr recreates cities in 3D simulations

You can get a good sense of the grandeur of Rome's Colosseum by looking at photos, but disparate snapshots give you a real idea of the ancient ruins scattered throughout Italy's Eternal City? They can now, thanks to a team from the University of ...
October 02, 2009 02 Oct'09
LSE eyes Turquoise to boost independence in Europe

The London Stock Exchange is in exclusive negotiations to buy rival year old pan-European share trading platform Turquoise.
October 02, 2009 02 Oct'09
Interview: Shuttleworth on the future of Linux

The installed base of Windows users is the biggest barrier to establishing Microsoft alternatives in business. But Mark Shuttleworth, founder of open source Linux distributor Ubuntu, believes the tide is turning in favour of Linux.
October 02, 2009 02 Oct'09
FBI and Nick Leeson to address RSA Europe 2009

Cybersecurity, cloud computing and data security are to be the dominant themes at the RSA Conference
October 01, 2009 01 Oct'09
Firewalls fall down in social networks and P2P

Traditional network firewalls are proving ineffective against information security threats from social network applications and peer-to-peer file sharing,...
October 01, 2009 01 Oct'09
Start-ups rival SAP and Oracle with cheap software support

The downturn has opened up opportunities for IT departments to cut the support costs of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
October 01, 2009 01 Oct'09
IT causes 14,000 NHS patient waiting list backlog

IT problems at one of UK's most respected hospital trusts has led to a backlog of at least 14,000 London patients on a waiting list for treatment.
September 30, 2009 30 Sep'09
ITU identity standards could end multiple passwords

Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past.

Two new standards to enhance identity and...
September 30, 2009 30 Sep'09
Microsoft wins $388m patent verdict reversal

A federal court has reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product activation technology infringed on another company's patent.
September 30, 2009 30 Sep'09
Smart Trojans used to ransack bank accounts

Cybercriminals are using smart Trojans to steal huge sums of money from online bank accounts without being detected
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Download Microsoft Security Essentials today

Microsoft's free anti-virus and anti-malware tool, Security Essentials, will be available to download in the UK from 5pm today.
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Roman Polanski search results could be poison, Webroot warns

IT security monitors are warning that cybercriminals are using search engine results for news around film director Roman Polanski.

Within...
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Tesco deploys green software to track carbon emissions

UK supermarket Tesco is using CA ecoSoftware to help it measure carbon emissions across its global operations.
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Cybersecurity experts agree to share attack forensics

Cybersecurity experts will soon be able to exchange information on network attack forensics and vulnerabilities using a standard vocabulary and message...
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Microsoft under increased pressure to fix SMB2 security flaw

Microsoft is under increasing pressure to release a security patch for a vulnerability in its file sharing (SMB2) protocol as more exploit code becomes available....
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Microsoft releases free Security Essentials software

Microsoft is to enter the free consumer security software arena today
September 29, 2009 29 Sep'09
Dell's ARM chip PCs to deliver instant start-up

PC maker Dell is expected to announce today its first series of high-end laptops to include microprocessors designed by the UK's ARM Holdings.
September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09
Swarming intelligence guides US IT security research

US security researchers are using "swarming intelligence" found in the insect world as a model to develop new defences against computer worms and viruses....
September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09
Government covers up Valuation Office security failures

The government has restricted circulation of an auditor's report into information security failures at the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the body that assesses property values for tax purposes.
September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09
Post-masters form action group after accounts shortfall

Sub-postmasters have formed an action group following disclosures in Computer Weekly of unexplained deficits in the Post Office accounting system.
September 25, 2009 25 Sep'09
Computers to mark exam papers

The owner of Edexcel, one of England's three big exam boards, will use artificial intelligence to automatically mark exam essays in the UK from next month.

Pearson,...
September 25, 2009 25 Sep'09
BMC and McAfee join forces on security compliance

Enterprise management software provider BMC Software has teamed up with security software firm McAfee to develop software to detect and fix security policy violations.
September 25, 2009 25 Sep'09
Green cloud from Microsoft's Dublin datacentre

Microsoft has opened its first datacentre in Europe to deliver cloud services to businesses.
September 24, 2009 24 Sep'09
UK managers do not understand SAM risks

The business risk of poorly managed software assets is not well understood by the board members and general managers of UK companies, research has revealed.
September 24, 2009 24 Sep'09
Red Hat profits continue to defy recession

Open Source software supplier Red Hat has reported strong results despite the recession.
September 24, 2009 24 Sep'09
FBI database holds records on 1.5 billion people

More than 1.5 billion government and private sector records about US citizens and foreigners are stored in an FBI database, declassified documents have...
September 23, 2009 23 Sep'09
VIDEO: Google enables open web technologies on IE

Google has unveiled software to help developers to take advantage of open web technologies on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.
September 23, 2009 23 Sep'09
Nokia buying Palm?

The internet is rife with rumours that Nokia is about to bid for mobile handset manufacturer Palm in a deal would give Nokia a PC operating system to rival...
September 23, 2009 23 Sep'09
Gartner: Windows 7 won't drive PC upgrades

The general availability of Windows 7 next month will not entice users to upgrade their PCs.

George Shiffler, research director at Gartner, said, "We...
September 22, 2009 22 Sep'09
Video: SAP Business Objects tracks swine flu

SAP Business Objects has helped the Emergency Response Association (EMA) in the US manage the swine...
September 21, 2009 21 Sep'09
Recession halves security software growth

The growth rate of the worldwide security software market will more than halve to 8% from 19% last year but will still total $14.5bn in 2009, says market...
September 21, 2009 21 Sep'09
E-discovery will slash compliance costs, says Gartner

By the end of 2012, organisations that fully document their search processes in e-discovery will save 25% on their collection processes, according to...
September 18, 2009 18 Sep'09
Google to develop US government cloud, but no news on UK

Google has announced it is building a government cloud.
September 18, 2009 18 Sep'09
Palm dumps MS Windows Mobile and prepares for growth with WebOS

Palm has confirmed that its next generation of mobile devices will be based exclusively on its own operating system, Palm WebOS.
September 18, 2009 18 Sep'09
Behind-the-times IT managers leave systems dangerously exposed

IT departments are fighting the security battles of five or 10 years ago, unaware that their IT systems are dangerously exposed to computer hackers.
September 17, 2009 17 Sep'09
Oracle blames reseller performance for results

Oracle has blamed falling first quarter sales on the recession, currency shifts and weakness in resellers' performance. The database specialist posted...
September 17, 2009 17 Sep'09
Gartner: Social software is confusing

CIOs and IT directors are being overwhelmed by the choice of products in the social software market, making it difficult for organisations to decide what products to deploy.
September 17, 2009 17 Sep'09
London Stock Exchange CIO buys freedom with MillenniumIT

The London Stock Exchange's decision to buy the MillenniumIT trading platform and the software company that developed it gives the exchange control of its own destiny, says CIO David Lester.
September 16, 2009 16 Sep'09
Tradelect saved the London Stock Exchange, says CIO

The London Stock Exchange's Tradelect trading platform saved the exchange from a series of hostile takeovers, its CIO David Lester disclosed today.
September 16, 2009 16 Sep'09
Fraudsters hit one in eight UK internet users

One in eight UK internet users have been victims of fraud, which totalled £2.61bn in the past year, a survey has revealed.

On average, £460...
September 16, 2009 16 Sep'09
Google releases faster Chrome 3

Google has released Chrome 3 just over a year after the firm first unveiled its contender to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the browser market.
September 16, 2009 16 Sep'09
Watchdog slams police DNA database guidelines

A human rights watchdog has slammed the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) for advising chief constables to continue adding DNA profiles of innocent...
September 16, 2009 16 Sep'09
Stock Exchange confirms MillenniumIT will be new core trading platform

The London Stock Exchange has confirmed that it will replace its Tradelect core trading platform with a system from Sri Lanka-based MillenniumIT, and will acquire the company for about £18m in the process.
September 15, 2009 15 Sep'09
Banks can make money from Faster Payments

The Faster Payments system can generate new revenue streams for banks and is not just a tick in the box for bank compliance, research has revealed.
September 15, 2009 15 Sep'09
Thomson Reuters buys accounting software firm

Information services provider Thomson Reuters is acquiring the tax and accounting software business owned by professional services firm Delloite.

The...
September 14, 2009 14 Sep'09
Case study: How PwC used IT to untangle Lehman Brothers collapse

The failure of Lehman Brothers a year ago highlighted the scale of the financial meltdown and global recession.
September 14, 2009 14 Sep'09
Oracle to unveil Sun-powered database

Oracle will take the wraps off the first product designed with Sun tomorrow, in a move that will indicate just where the merged operation could be heading once the deal gets the go-ahead.
September 14, 2009 14 Sep'09
SAP transfers customers to Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems

SAP has transferred about 90 European customers to Deutsche Telekom's corporate services arm, T-Systems.

T-Systems will host and support...
September 14, 2009 14 Sep'09
Investigation of Microsoft/Yahoo deal deepens

US anti-monopoly investigators have asked Microsoft and Yahoo for more details of their proposed online search partnership to challenge market leader Google.
September 11, 2009 11 Sep'09
Apple Snow Leopard update download available

Apple has released an update for the Snow Leopard OS less than two weeks after the official release of this latest version of the Mac OS X operating system.
September 10, 2009 10 Sep'09
CIOs focus on analytics to drive business

Business intelligence and analytics are the top priority for CIOs, an IBM study reveals.
September 09, 2009 09 Sep'09
Video: Artificial intelligence plays Mario

Julian Togelius at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and colleague Sergey Karakovskiy have thrown down the gauntlet to developers to write software that can learn to master Mario by playing it over and over, much as generations of gamers have...
September 09, 2009 09 Sep'09
Microsoft faces two zero-day security flaws

Microsoft may be forced to release an out-of-cycle security update for a vulnerability published the same day as the firm released its September Patch...
September 09, 2009 09 Sep'09
Robot surgery book wins BMA award

A book that details everything now known about getting robots to perform surgery won first prize at the 2009 BMA medical book awards in London last night.
September 09, 2009 09 Sep'09
OIN secures ex-Microsoft Linux patents

Open source support group Open Invention Network has acquired 22 Linux-focused patents recently sold by Microsoft.
September 09, 2009 09 Sep'09
Adaptec boosts storage I/O with MaxIQ SSD Cache

Adaptec has developed a product it claims can improve the storage performance of applications fivefold by using solid state discs in combination with...
September 07, 2009 07 Sep'09
Millions of web users at risk from weak passwords

Over 18 million UK internet users are at risk of fraud because they use the same password for their online banking, shopping and social networking account, research has revealed.
September 07, 2009 07 Sep'09
London Marathon 2010: Virgin launches donation site built on open source

Virgin, the sponsor for the London Marathon 2010, has created a charity fund-raising site, based on open source technology.
September 04, 2009 04 Sep'09
September Patch Tuesday could disrupt business

Microsoft's September security update is likely to cause some disruption in businesses with five critical patches for core Windows operating systems.

All...
September 04, 2009 04 Sep'09
Storage hit by recession as IT projects put on hold

Sales of external controller-based (ECB) disk storage plummeted by almost 16% in the second quarter of 2009 due to the downturn impacting enterprise IT projects,...
September 04, 2009 04 Sep'09
London Stock Exchange to replace Tradelect with Millennium

The London Stock Exchange is dumping its Tradelect core trading platform in favour of a system from Sri Lanka-based MillenniumIT, Computer Weekly can reveal.
September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09
Students reject GroupWise for Google Apps

Nearly 30,000 students at the University of Portsmouth have rejected the university's internal e-mail system in favour of Google Apps.
September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09
Businesses face more software audits

Businesses are facing more software audits as software suppliers turn the screws on those companies that are failing to pay for the correct licences.

In...
September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09
HP and Cisco bury hatchet on virtualised datacentre comms

Hewlett-Packard and Cisco have compromised on proposed competing standards for managing communications in virtualised datacentres.

The...
September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09
Microsoft and Intel tout Windows 7 performance

Microsoft and Intel say Windows 7 will offer better processor performance and battery life than its predecessor Windows Vista.

The claim was...
September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09
IBM pushes desktops into the cloud

Desktop PCs are expensive. They need upgrading every few years and require constant patching and IT management to ensure they remain secure and function...
September 01, 2009 01 Sep'09
Procurement software fails to deliver

Procurement departments are being put under the spotlight as businesses attempt to cut costs during the recession but technologies used to streamline how...
September 01, 2009 01 Sep'09
EMC bolsters virtualisation strategy with FastScale acquisition

EMC has extended its Ionix platform with the acquisition of FastScale Technology, a California-based provider of software platforms, to support private cloud infrastructures.
August 31, 2009 31 Aug'09
Manage your mainframes to cut costs

Like all server systems, IBM's system-z mainframes need effective management to ensure operational costs stay as low as possible.
August 27, 2009 27 Aug'09
Amazon connects EC2 into corporate networks

Amazon has extended its Elastic Cloud Computing service (EC2) to enable IT departments to link their own datacentres with virtual servers running in the...
August 25, 2009 25 Aug'09
Document management ROI 'too difficult to measure'

Business are unable to calculate the return on investment of document management, electronic content management (ECM) and workflow software, the latest...
August 24, 2009 24 Aug'09
Apple to release Snow Leopard on 28 August

The new operating system features built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, improvements to 90% of the features, and slimmed-down code that takes up half the space of previous operating systems
August 21, 2009 21 Aug'09
XP hacker jailed for three and a half years

Four people have been jailed in China for ripping off Windows XP, according to Reuters.
August 21, 2009 21 Aug'09
Oracle gets US go-ahead on Sun deal

The US Department of Justice has approved Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems and terminated the waiting period.
August 20, 2009 20 Aug'09
Facebook app measures your carbon footprint

A computer science student has created a Facebook application that enables users to measure their domestic energy consumption via the social networking site.
August 19, 2009 19 Aug'09
Buy Windows 7 for £65

UK users can pre-order the full version of Windows 7 Home Edition for just £64.95, saving over £85.
August 18, 2009 18 Aug'09
Turquoise could be answer to London Stock Exchange’s Tradelect dilemma

T he London Stock Exchange is looking at various...
August 17, 2009 17 Aug'09
Tradelect replacement a tricky decision for London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange's decision to replace its core trading platform is more complicated than ever because of the fierce competition in the sector.
August 17, 2009 17 Aug'09
IBM targets HP and Sun users with Linux mainframe

IBM is targeting HP and Sun customers with an integrated set of software and hardware to run business software, data warehouse and Linux applications for...
August 15, 2009 15 Aug'09
Backward planets rewrite book on orbits

Two exoplanets that orbit their star backwards have been found. The first planet is also the most bloated found to date, and some astronomers suspect both properties can be traced back to a close encounter with a planetary sibling.
August 14, 2009 14 Aug'09
Scanner can fix ripped photos, sadly not hearts

An imaging technique used to enhance ancient engravings might soon help you erase rips and creases from old photographs, using an ordinary flatbed scanner.
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
Microsoft ports Office apps to Nokia's Symbian OS

Microsoft and Nokia today announced an alliance that will see MS Office products such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote ported to Nokia's business-oriented Eseries mobile phones.
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
London Stock Exchange closer to Tradelect decision

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is nearing a decision on the future of its core trading software, Tradelect.

The...
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: fixes for ActiveX, but make it quick

Users should update their Windows PCs immediately with Microsoft's latest patches, which became available yesterday.
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
Smartphones save Nokia and Apple as mobile sales slide

Smartphones were the bright spot in a global mobile handset market that slipped 6% to 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, according to Gartner's latest research.
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
The end of Microsoft Office? Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word

Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word, its flagship word processor, within 60 days.
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 preview

Microsoft has made available preview software for the next release of SQL Server, under its Community Technology Preview (CTP) programme.

The preview...
August 12, 2009 12 Aug'09
Apple releases another security update for Safari

Apple has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its Safari web browser for Mac and Windows, just a month after the last update.
August 11, 2009 11 Aug'09
SMEs make decisions based on dodgy data

More than two thirds of mid-sized UK businesses rely on spreadsheets to support decisions, a survey has revealed.