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January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10
Conservative manifesto would revamp NHS IT

The Conservative Party has published a draft manifesto for the NHS, which could have a material impact on the NHS National Programme for IT.
January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10
Amazon UK tops customer satisfaction chart

A survey of more than 10,000 online shoppers has revealed that Amazon UK's website ranks highest for customer satisfaction.
December 21, 2009 21 Dec'09
London Stock Exchange takes control of Turquoise

The London Stock Exchange is taking over competitor Turquoise and the platform is set to be migrated...
December 21, 2009 21 Dec'09
Six tips for smooth SAP upgrades

If your 2010 will include uprades to an SAP implementation across more than one nation, this list of six best upgrade practices may make the year more pleasant.

December 18, 2009 18 Dec'09
Oracle boosts software and services revenue with SAP business

Oracle has increased its software licence and product support revenue by 14% to $3.9bn for the second quarter of 2009, at the expense of SAP.
December 16, 2009 16 Dec'09
Barclays takes desktop management back in-house

High-street bank Barclays is calling time on its desktop management contract with Getronics six months earlier than planned to take the function back in-house.
December 16, 2009 16 Dec'09
Paper better than computers for patient records, say UCL researchers

Paper may be a more efficient medium than computers for delivering essential patient information to doctors, researchers have found.

Researchers at...
December 15, 2009 15 Dec'09
Los Angeles switches to Google cloud services to cut costs

The City of Los Angeles will use Google Apps and GMail for its office productivity software in a bid to cut costs. The cloud-based service will be supported...
December 14, 2009 14 Dec'09
Hackers block Microsoft Cofee law enforcement software

Hackers have released software designed to attack a Microsoft tool used by law enforcement agencies.
December 11, 2009 11 Dec'09
One in three report problems upgrading to Windows 7

Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system has had a better reception than its Vista predecessor, but complaints about bugs are rolling in.

December 11, 2009 11 Dec'09
Oracle accuses EC of manipulating data to block Sun deal

Oracle has accused European competition authorities of cherry-picking comments from a market survey to support objections to the firm's planned acquisition...
December 10, 2009 10 Dec'09
SAP lays out a five-year enterprise software plan

SAP executives have outlined the enterprise software company's product and technology vision for the next five years.

The plan features...
December 09, 2009 09 Dec'09
Microsoft issues six security patches

Microsoft has issued six security bulletins for December, bringing the total for 2009 to 74, compared with 77 in 2008, 69 in 2007 and 78 in 2006.

Of...
December 09, 2009 09 Dec'09
IBM sees no competition issues with Oracle's Sun takeover

Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems does not raise any significant antitrust issues, according to Oracle rival IBM.

Despite objections...
December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09
Salesforce.com unveils 10-year sales cloud strategy

Salesforce.com has set out a 10-year strategy for its cloud-based customer relationship management service, which it hopes will link the consumer web...
December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09
Criminals outwit Captcha website security systems

Criminal gangs are using sophisticated software to outwit the Captcha systems used by webmail, microblogging and social networking services to protect their sites against hackers and spammers.
December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09
Kaspersky Lab plans to shake up corporate security

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab aims to become a major security supplier to small, medium and large business by 2014.
December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09
EC to approve Microsoft IE deal soon

The European Commission is set to give formal approval in the third week of December to a settlement with Microsoft to end the latest European antitrust case against the software firm.
December 07, 2009 07 Dec'09
Video: ComputerWeekly Geekly IT News Round up - 7 December

Welcome to this week's Computer Geekly Weekly IT news round-up video. This video picks the must know tech stories from the past week and serves them up with a twist.
December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09
Linux is only bright spot as Novell reports loss

Sales of Linux products provided the only area of growth for Novell in its fiscal year ending 31 October 2009, as the vendor reported a decline in revenues....
December 03, 2009 03 Dec'09
Microsoft anti-pirate technology sparks 630% rise in fake code detection

Anti-counterfeiting technology has prompted a six-fold rise in the number of consumers who have reported buying faked Microsoft software, the software firm...
December 03, 2009 03 Dec'09
Sage boss warns it’s too early to talk of recovery

Sage has warned that it is yet to see signs of recovery as it unveiled results that were helped by a weak pound and a programme of corporate cost-cutting.
December 02, 2009 02 Dec'09
Prevx apologises to Microsoft over 'black screen of death'

Security software supplier Prevx has apologised to Microsoft for a blog that linked the software giant's recent security updates with users experiencing system crashes.
December 02, 2009 02 Dec'09
IBM's Guardium acquisition misses the mark, says Imperva

IBM may be missing the mark in its planned acquisition of database security and monitoring firm Guardium, says data security firm Imperva.
December 01, 2009 01 Dec'09
Make your ERP roll-out succeed

The history of enterprise resource planning (ERP) roll-outs is far from flawless and business has been quick to blame failures on the technology.
November 30, 2009 30 Nov'09
Dell releases experimental Chrome OS for netbooks

Engineers at PC maker Dell have released an unofficial version of Google's Chrome operating system
November 27, 2009 27 Nov'09
EU and Oracle to meet soon on Sun deal

Oracle is to meet European Union regulators on 10 December in an attempt to win approval of the planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, according to reports.
November 27, 2009 27 Nov'09
Interview: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on why CIOs love clouds

Chief information officers are more comfortable with the idea of cloud computing than they were six months ago.
November 26, 2009 26 Nov'09
IT doesn't understand why legacy data must be destroyed

Many IT departments are leaving their companies exposed to unnecessary cost and legal risk by not complying with data retention policies laid down by the business.
November 26, 2009 26 Nov'09
The IT Blog Awards 2009 winners

Did Stephen Fry win Twitter user of the year? Who’s the 2009 blogger of the year? All these questions have been answered.
November 25, 2009 25 Nov'09
In bed with SAP – the future for enterprise software?

Enterprise software companies are not traditionally open to negotiation with user groups, but SAP is beginning to forge new links with its end-users.

SAP...
November 25, 2009 25 Nov'09
Durex maker gets satisfaction with SAP

SSL International, the UK-headquartered manufacturer of Durex and Scholl footcare products, has completed 75% of its global SAP roll out.
November 25, 2009 25 Nov'09
UK national ID cards database goes live

The database that underpins the UK's controversial ID card scheme is up and running, according to the government's identity commissioner Joseph Pilling.
November 24, 2009 24 Nov'09
SAP user groups make "great progress" in working with SAP

SAP customers have made great progress over the past year in working with the software company to meet concerns over maintenance and pricing, says the SAP...
November 24, 2009 24 Nov'09
SAP at odds with user group over prices

SAP is imposing maintenance increases on some users that are greater those agreed with the SAP user group executive network (Sugen), says Ray Wang, partner at consultancy Altimeter Group.
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
SAP vows to get closer to its users

SAP UK has vowed to work more closely with the SAP User Group as it seeks to improve its understanding of the needs of businesses.

Tim...
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
Tesco bank gets its core system

Tesco Bank has chosen an off-the-shelf core banking system from Fiserv as it moves towards being a full-service retail bank.
November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09
EU delays Sun/Oracle decision

The EU has pushed back its deadline for reviewing the Sun merger after granting a request from Oracle for more time
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
Inside Chrome OS - Google reveals design objectives of cloud operating system

Google has unveiled the design plans for Chrome OS, its operating system for cloud computing. Chrome OS is an evolution of the Chrome web browser,...
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
What Microsoft Azure means to corporate IT

After years of planning, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie has delivered the foundation for Microsoft's future - a technology that allows Windows applications to run either in the cloud or in-house.
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
MS Office 2010 beta goes public

Microsoft Office 2010 beta is available for public download, with the final version due for release in the first half of 2010.
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
Ted Baker expands with QuickAssortment

Ted Baker, “the fastest growing leading life style brand”, is going to expand its business with a new planning process.
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
HP helps users back-up laptop data

Hewlett-Packard has released a tool designed to simplify the back-up and recovery of data from laptop PCs.

With a growing volume of...
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
SAP system helps Burberry save £50m

Fashion retailer Burberry reported savings of £50m last year as it began to reap the benefits of its SAP-based supply chain system.

Burberry...
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
Weitz outlines Microsoft plans to rival Google's search dominance

Microsoft's director of search Stefan Weitz has outlined how the company hopes to rival Google in the web search market.
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
Google to reveal Chrome operating system

Google has arranged an event at its headquarters in California which could reveal more details about the operating system it hopes will challenge Microsoft's dominance.
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
Aviva software fields thousands of HR enquiries

Software used by Aviva to provide immediate answers to HR inquiries has helped the insurance giant answer thousands of questions from staff during its global rebranding excercise.
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
Microsoft launches Azure to merge cloud and Windows computing

Microsoft has released Windows Azure, its cloud computing platform for running .net web services.
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
Microsoft to reveal Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft is expected to reveal some of the details of its next internet browser.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
Cloud computing unfamiliar territory for IT heads

IT heads not in the cloud Over half of European IT heads within businesses do not understand cloud computing, although the method of delivering IT is about the biggest hype in the IT industry.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
Adobe releases Flash 10.1 and Air 2 betas

Adobe Air 2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software are now available as beta downloads from Adobe Labs for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
IBM launches cloud-based business analytics service

IBM has announced a cloud-based business analytics service to challenge more established cloud computing players such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
How to migrate to Windows 7

With 177 million copies of Windows 7 expected to be shipped by the end of 2010, according to UDC, businesses need a migration plan.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
Dell to launch Android-based Mini 3 smartphone

PC maker Dell has announced that it is to enter the smartphone market in late November with the launch of its first device in China.
November 16, 2009 16 Nov'09
Irish VMware users get a tax boost

The Irish government is giving businesses a tax incentive to buy energy-efficient virtualisation technology.

Irish businesses purchasing...
November 16, 2009 16 Nov'09
ISPs criticise government plans to store all comms data

Internet service providers (ISPs) are unhappy with the government's plans to require them to store records of all e‑mail, social networking and web traffic.

The...
November 16, 2009 16 Nov'09
Power failure at HBOS disrupts banking services

A power failure disrupted branch computer systems at Halifax and Bank of Scotland and left customers unable to access cash point machines and online banking...
November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09
IT challenge ahead as BA and Iberia merge

The IT departments at British Airways and Iberia have some hard work ahead of them after the two airlines announced they are to merge.
November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09
Windows 8 is on its way

Microsoft Windows 8 operating system is in the planning stage.
November 12, 2009 12 Nov'09
Microsoft insists Windows 7 is not Mac OS X copycat

A UK Microsoft manager has been corrected by the company for saying the design of Windows 7 was borrowed from Mac OS X.
November 12, 2009 12 Nov'09
Microsoft partners with Wolfram Alpha to boost Bing search

Microsoft is to introduce enhancements to its Bing search engine, including some that rely on "Google killer" mathematical modelling tool
November 12, 2009 12 Nov'09
Microsoft announces cloud partnership in Taiwan

Microsoft is to collaborate with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on software applications and cloud services for end-user devices.
November 10, 2009 10 Nov'09
Armed forces charity SSVC deploys Astaro security

Armed forces charity Services, Sound and Vision Corporation has deployed an appliance-based system to secure its networks around the world.
November 10, 2009 10 Nov'09
Princes cracks SAP compliance challenge with su53

Regulatory compliance can be overwhelming for IT departments torn between outsourcing and in-house management, but there is a middle way, according to...
November 10, 2009 10 Nov'09
Oracle to oppose EU objections to Sun acquisition

European regulators have issued an official objection to Oracle's $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems, moving another step closer to blocking the deal.
November 09, 2009 09 Nov'09
TechEd 2009: Microsoft's Exchange Server 2010 available

Microsoft has announced the worldwide availability of its Exchange Server 2010 at its TechEd 2009 conference in Germany.
November 09, 2009 09 Nov'09
SaaS market growth defies recession

The recession has not dampened growth in the software as a service (SaaS) market, which has seen a 17.7% increase in global revenues this year.
November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09
Marks & Spencer to kick off major SAP roll-out

Marks & Spencer will start implementing SAP software in its core systems next year following successful implementation in other parts of the company.
November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09
Intel could face US federal anti-trust investigation, say legal experts

Intel could be facing a US federal investigation as the number of legal complaints against the chipmaker's business practices begin to mount up.
November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09
NetSuite's Sage campaign a success

Cloud computing specialist NetSuite said its campaign to target rival Sage appears to be having some impact after announcing customer wins.

The...
November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09
Video: Google launches cloud-based search service for retailers

Google has launched a cloud-based search service to enable retailers to add customised search facilities to their websites.
November 04, 2009 04 Nov'09
Prevx offers free security to online businesses

Security firm Prevx is giving free protection to customers of organisations that do business online.
November 04, 2009 04 Nov'09
Sun and its customers could face more delays to Oracle acquisition

Costly delays to European Commission approval of Oracle's proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems look set to continue.
November 04, 2009 04 Nov'09
Cisco partners with EMC to take on HP and IBM

Cisco Systems has formed an alliance with EMC to combine computing equipment and services. The move is aimed at challenging market leaders Hewlett-Packard...
November 04, 2009 04 Nov'09
HP tackles $35bn converged IT market

Hewlett-Packard is to launch a set of products and services, which it claims will help firms achieve better insight into their business, faster application development and greater flexibility in responding to market changes.
November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09
Microsoft slashes cost of cloud computing

Microsoft is cutting the subscription costs for its on-demand application portfolio by 30% to less than £7 per user per month.

Microsoft...
November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09
Video: Spending on private cloud to take off, says Gartner

Businesses will begin investing in their own secure private cloud networks over the next three to five years while they wait for the public cloud to mature,...
November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09
Banking sale of the century will be straightforward IT project

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds TSB have announced plans to sell...
November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09
Steve Ballmer pessimistic about IT spending

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer thinks corporations' IT spending will not return to pre-recession levels.
November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09
MPs condemn C-Nomis criminal database project

MPs have condemned a major IT project for tracking offenders through the criminal justice system as a £513m shambles.
November 02, 2009 02 Nov'09
Banks begin processing Sepa direct debits

The pan-european, cross-border payments system, known as the single European payments area (Sepa), began processing direct debits from 2nd of November.
November 02, 2009 02 Nov'09
SAP users delay software upgrades

Many UK users of SAP enterprise software are concerned about the cost and time taken to upgrade their systems, a survey has revealed.
October 30, 2009 30 Oct'09
Window 7 users struggle to boot up

Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft's support site.
October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09
Oracle thinks global, but what about UK users?

For most US IT companies bent on expansion overseas, the first port of call is typically the UK where at least the locals speak (almost) the same language as they do in San Francisco. That was the case when Oracle first set up shop in the UK in the ...
October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09
Yahoo and Microsoft ask for more time to finalise partnership deal

Yahoo and Microsoft have extended the deadline to finalise their search and advertising deal, announced in July.
October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09
Apple App Store hits 100,000 apps

Apple has now approved more than 100,000 applications for sale on its software catalogue App Store.
October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09
US Department of Defense backs open source software

The US Department of Defense has backed the use of more open source software to boost its software development capability.
October 28, 2009 28 Oct'09
Tesco bank opens contact centre in Newcastle

Retail giant Tesco is to open a contact centre for its finance operations that will employ 1,000 people.
October 28, 2009 28 Oct'09
SAP Q3 revenues down 11%

Enterprise management software firm SAP has reported third quarter income of €435m, an 11% drop compared with the same period the year before.
October 27, 2009 27 Oct'09
Gizmodo tricked into serving scareware-laced adverts

Internet users are being urged to inspect their computers after technology and gadget blog Gizmodo delivered...
October 27, 2009 27 Oct'09
Defra defends Accenture over “flawed” £350m IT system

Top civil servants have defended Accenture after it helped to deliver a "fundamentally flawed" £350m IT system to pay EU subsidies to farmers. Helen...
October 26, 2009 26 Oct'09
Barclays systems crash

Customers of Barclays Bank were unable to use some services this morning as a result of an unidentified system problem.
October 23, 2009 23 Oct'09
Microsoft profits drop 18%

Microsoft's profits have fallen 18% while revenues took a 14% dive in the past year, but the software giant is very pleased with its performance.
October 23, 2009 23 Oct'09
Cloud could improve data security

Security is widely seen as an inhibitor to enterprise adoption of cloud computing.
October 23, 2009 23 Oct'09
BMC tackles virtual server sprawl with Tideway

BMC has acquired UK IT management tools firm Tideway as it builds its strategy to support IT management for cloud computing.
October 23, 2009 23 Oct'09
EMC sees storage grow despite economic climate

EMC has reported third-quarter 2009 consolidated revenue of $3.52 billion, exceeding the previous company outlook of 4% to 5% sequential revenue growth. However third-quarter consolidated revenue declined 5%, compared with the same period the year ...
October 23, 2009 23 Oct'09
Open source developers oppose Oracle's MySQL acquisition

Prominent open source software developers have joined forces with those opposed to Oracle assuming control of MySQL if Oracle's proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems goes ahead.
October 23, 2009 23 Oct'09
Man jailed for selling pirated software on eBay

A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.
October 22, 2009 22 Oct'09
Dragons give a boost to UK software entrepreneurs

The UK has a thriving software industry with start-ups, niche suppliers and global players all producing software for UK and international users, says...
October 22, 2009 22 Oct'09
VMware cautious about economic recovery despite profits plummeting

Virtualisation lynchpin VMware has become the latest IT vendor to voice cautious optimism about the economic recovery as more small scale projects get clearance.