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March 24, 2009 24 Mar'09
Public sector still spending on IT, says RM

Educational specialist RM has issued an update on trading for the first half of the year revealing it is on track to meet its expectations as the public...
March 23, 2009 23 Mar'09
FAST calls for whistleblowers to report pirate software

The Federation Against Software Theft has launched a whistleblower campaign to try to encourage those people uncomfortable with the idea of being pressured by their bosses to use unlicensed software to come forward.
March 20, 2009 20 Mar'09
Government defends red light warning in ID card reviews

The Identity and Passport Service has defended the "red" traffic light status given to an early Gateway review on the ID Cards scheme.
March 19, 2009 19 Mar'09
Oracle boosts software licence revenue

Oracle has reported a rise in software licence sales for Q3 2009.

March 17, 2009 17 Mar'09
Computerised self-test for type 2 diabetes

Doctors have developed a computerised test for predicting the risk of type 2 diabetes based on information in patients' electronic health records…
March 17, 2009 17 Mar'09
Gartner analyses four leading BI vendors

Learn Gartner's view on business intelligence platforms from Oracle, IBM, SAP and Microsoft.
March 16, 2009 16 Mar'09
Tim Berners-Lee: Internet at risk from 'wiretapping'

The ever-increasing power of computers that is helping the internet to grow is also threatening its future. That was the warning delivered by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, and online security specialists at the Houses of Parliament in ...
March 13, 2009 13 Mar'09
Google Docs: can we trust free software in the enterprise?

Earlier this week Google fixed a security problem affecting its Google Docs application suite that caused users to inadvertently share documents.
March 13, 2009 13 Mar'09
UK's first national open source IT project to demo soon

A demonstration version of the UK's first government-backed national open source IT project, is to go live in two weeks' time.
March 12, 2009 12 Mar'09
Bill Gates loses £12.2bn but regains top spot on rich list

Bill Gates' fortune has been cut by a massive £12.2bn, but he has regained the position of being the world's richest person with £28.8bn, according to Forbes Rich List 2009.

March 12, 2009 12 Mar'09
SAP and Sybase bring Business Suite to iPhone

SAP is working with Sybase to provide enterprise software on the iPhone and other mobile devices. The companies said they would collaborate on helping users...
March 10, 2009 10 Mar'09
Recession begins to bite storage software market

Storage software market shows signs of recession in IDC's latest Storage Software Tracker
March 09, 2009 09 Mar'09
Virtualisation uptake spurs SMBs to the Cloud

SMBs rethinking and overhauling IT infrastructure and client systems in order to achieve greater flexibility, efficiency, and performance
March 09, 2009 09 Mar'09
Spam still costing thousands, McAfee report says

Spam is still costing big business thousands of pounds a year in lost productivity, according to McAfee's March 2009 spam report.
March 06, 2009 06 Mar'09
Firms waste £2.6m a year looking for data

Large UK companies waste more than £2.6m a year each as staff search fruitlessly for information they need to do their jobs, according to a survey.

The...
March 06, 2009 06 Mar'09
Zoho upgrades on-demand word processor

Zoho has announced Zoho Writer 2.0, the next generation of the its online word processor.
March 06, 2009 06 Mar'09
Outdated IT system a risk to courts, says NAO report

An out-dated critical computer system poses a "significant risk" for UK courts, according to a National Audit Office report published today.
March 05, 2009 05 Mar'09
IE8 lacks support for enterprise apps

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) could cause some enterprise applications that use browser-based user interfaces to fail. IT directors must ensure their enterprise applications will be compatible with IE8, which will be launched soon, before rolling it out...
March 05, 2009 05 Mar'09
Legal firm Browne Jacobson streamlines HR and payroll processes

Midlands commercial law firm Browne Jacobson has streamlined its human resource (HR) and payroll processes after implementing a human capital management...
March 05, 2009 05 Mar'09
IBM updates Informix database with warehousing feature

IBM has unveiled new database software its says will help companies make decisions more intelligently to maximise sales opportunities while reducing expenses.

With...
March 05, 2009 05 Mar'09
CRM use cases stable, but satisfying customers won't get easier

Gartner says that CRM usage patters will remain the same and prices for the software should fall as SaaS pressures vendors.
March 04, 2009 04 Mar'09
Microsoft labels trustworthy computing a success

Microsoft issues security updates for its products every month, despite the i ntroduction of its
March 04, 2009 04 Mar'09
Apple updates iMac and rolls out green Mac mini

Apple has updated its iMac and Mac mini desktop lines, including faster processors and twice the memory for all iMacs.

The entire iMac line comes with...
March 03, 2009 03 Mar'09
Microsoft Live Search rebrand leaked on Twitter

A US Microsoft executive has leaked Redmond's plan to relaunch and rebrand its Live Search service on the Twitter mobile blogging service.

The executive's...
March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09
GlaxoSmithKline switches to Microsoft Online

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has become one of the first businesses to standardise on Microsoft's Online Services, launched earlier today.
March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09
Microsoft releases application virtualisation platform for Windows 7

The Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) platform is now available for use with the Windows 7 Beta.

"We've been listening to customers who...
March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09
EDF sales team clicks with new scheduling software

EDF Energy has expanded its use of automated scheduling and routing software for maintenance work to manage a 500-strong...
March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09
SAP shrinks carbon footprint

SAP plans to slash its carbon emission s by 51% and help its customers reduce theirs. "We will try to use technology to help SAP reduce...
March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09
Windows grabs more of the OS market

Microsoft's Windows operating system increased its online market share in February.
February 27, 2009 27 Feb'09
Will recession drive users to open source?

The government released an action plan last weekto showhowopen source technology is offering...
February 27, 2009 27 Feb'09
Windows Vista wins Fiasco Awards hands down

Microsoft's Windows Vista has easily won the top prize in the 2009 Fiasco Awards, which were awarded in Barcelona yesterday (Thursday).
February 27, 2009 27 Feb'09
Government plans to keep DNA of innocent

The British government is reportedly...
February 26, 2009 26 Feb'09
Microsoft releases 'reliability update' for IE8 to stop Windows 7 crashing

Microsoft has released a "reliability update" to stop the new pre-release Internet Exporer 8 browser crashing the Windows 7 Beta operating system.
February 26, 2009 26 Feb'09
Google blames Gmail outage on maintenance problems

Google has blamed Tuesday's Gmail outage on routine maintenance in a European datacentre.
February 26, 2009 26 Feb'09
DPP has no evidence for a UK prosecution of hacker Gary McKinnon

McKinnon The director of public prosecutions will not prosecute self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, despite McKinnon's willingness to plead guilty...
February 26, 2009 26 Feb'09
iPhone, Android and Chrome targeted in hacking contest

A hacking competition, paying cash prizes of up to $10,000, will target the Apple iPhone and Google's Android OS among other gadgets and software.

3Com's...
February 26, 2009 26 Feb'09
HP supports rival Sun's Solaris operating system

Hewlett-Packard is making Sun's Solaris operating system available on its Proliant PC servers. The server rivals have expanded their partnership...
February 25, 2009 25 Feb'09
Government pushes open source with 10-point plan

The government is getting serious about using open source as a building block in systems development.

Yesterday its top IT policy-making body, the...
February 24, 2009 24 Feb'09
Blunkett concerned about government data sharing powers

Former home secretary David Blunkett is to call on the government to make sure new powers that allow sensitive personal data to be shared across Whitehall departments cannot be misused.
February 23, 2009 23 Feb'09
Growth in social computing in CRM in 2009, says Gartner

There will be a massive growth in companies' use of online communities to interact with their customers over the next year, according to analyst...
February 23, 2009 23 Feb'09
Microsoft to issue Windows 7 update

Microsoft is expected to update PCs running the Windows 7 beta this week.
February 23, 2009 23 Feb'09
eBay users urged to swap IE for Firefox after Auctiva Trojan attack

Auction site eBay has warned users of a T rojan horse affecting the Auctiva auction service. The virus affects users managing eBay auctions...
February 19, 2009 19 Feb'09
Galaxy Zoo 2 calls for armchair astronomers

The international Galaxy Zoo 2 project is again turning to amateur astronomers and their PCs to study the many thousands of images of galaxies it has captured.
February 18, 2009 18 Feb'09
Woman sues Microsoft over Vista to XP downgrade charge

A Californian woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft after she was charged $59.25 for downgrading her Windows Vista PC to XP.

In...
February 18, 2009 18 Feb'09
Greenpeace: eWaste from UK poisons Africa

Electronic waste intended for recycling is being illegally exported from the United Kingdom to Nigeria disguised as second-hand goods, according to Greenpeace.
February 17, 2009 17 Feb'09
Red Hat and Microsoft agree on Linux/Windows virtualisation interoperability

Red Hat is working with Microsoft to increase interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualisation ....
February 13, 2009 13 Feb'09
Compass Group improves procurement in face of recession

Catering firm Compass Group is using software to standardise the whole purchasing process and reduce its own costs by helping suppliers reduce theirs.

The...
February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09
Microsoft warns firms over skipping Vista to Windows 7

Companies face operational problems if they try to upgrade to Windows 7 straight from Windows XP, Microsoft has warned.
February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09
Hackers break in to BitDefender's customer database

Yet another major security vendor has had a customer database accessed by hackers.

Hackers have accessed customer details from a Portuguese partner...
February 11, 2009 11 Feb'09
Guardian News rolls out Google Apps

Guardian News and Media is rolling out Google Apps to its 2,400 users.
February 11, 2009 11 Feb'09
Huddle offers conferencing link with InterCall

Huddle , the collaboration platform that uses...
February 11, 2009 11 Feb'09
Prescott gets blogging and twittering against RBS bonuses

The Labour Party is using a range of web services to shame the Royal Bank of Scotland into cancelling £1bn of potential bonuses for bankers and traders.

The...
February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09
Social network sites sign EU cyberbully deal

Google, YouTube, Facebook and MySpace are among 17 social networking sites to sign a European Commission deal to prevent cyber-bullying and protect the privacy of users under 18.
February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09
Added critical data protection for SMBs

New technology aiming to solve small and medium size businesses’ perennial problems with protecting business critical data
February 09, 2009 09 Feb'09
St Austell Brewery toasts new delivery system

Cornwall's St Austell Brewery is gearing up its distribution performance with an automated routing and scheduling...
February 09, 2009 09 Feb'09
Valentines day used by Trojan spammers

McAfee Avert Labs has uncovered a rise in the level of Valentine Spam attempting to trick internet users by posing as Valentine's games and e-mail greetings.
February 09, 2009 09 Feb'09
Kaspersky's website hacked

Security firm Kaspersky has downplayed claims that its US website was hacked at the weekend, exposing a database containing customer details.
February 06, 2009 06 Feb'09
Enterprises finally take to Windows Vista

Enterprises are slowly taking to Windows Vista, says Forrester.
February 05, 2009 05 Feb'09
TIBCO accelerates message processing

TIBCO Software has developed a messaging appliance that uses custom hardware to accelerate message processing. The product is designed to provide financial...
February 04, 2009 04 Feb'09
SAP boosts ERP with Business Suite 7

SAP has unveiled a major update to its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) software with the release of the SAP Business Suite 7 in New York today.
February 04, 2009 04 Feb'09
Mozilla updates Firefox as it gains ground

Mozilla has released an update of Firefox that fixes six bugs as it continues to gain share of the internet browser market.
February 04, 2009 04 Feb'09
Legal firm reduces risk with enterprise search

UK legal firm Mills & Reeve is reducing risk by equipping more than 800 users in six offices with an enterprise search to ensure quick access to the information they need.
February 03, 2009 03 Feb'09
Talend: open source data integration goes mainstream

It has taken almost a decade, but open source is making in-roads into the enterprise. This is not a religious battle between Windows and Linux, it is about...
February 03, 2009 03 Feb'09
Travel in time and explore the oceans with Google Earth upgrade

The latest version of Google Earth allows users to explore beneath the ocean surface, go back in history, visit Mars and use GPS to plan their own routes.
February 02, 2009 02 Feb'09
McAfee unveils enterprise SaaS business unit

McAfee has expanded its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering with a new business unit to offer cloud-based services to firms.

The SaaS unit will be...
February 02, 2009 02 Feb'09
Snow-related queries put unprecedented load on unprepared commuter websites

Three commuter travel information web sites were unable to cope with increased number of enquiries this morning about disruptions due to snow falls across southern England. Was poor load testing to blame for their inability to cope with the ...
February 02, 2009 02 Feb'09
Thomson Reuters breaks down barriers to enterprise instant messaging

Thomson Reuters has launched a single-link instant messaging platform for businesses.
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Citrix axes 10% of global staff as profits fall

Citrix is axing around 10% of its staff in response to falling profits. Citrix says ...
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Morrisons migrates to voice-based product picking in warehouses

Morrisons has signed a £6m-plus contract with Zetes to provide an automatic voice-based goods picking system in its warhouses.
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Hewlett-Packard says cloud is not good enough for enterprise IT

Cloud computing is not suitable for today's mission critical enterprise applications
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Digital Britain means digital inclusion, says minister

Access to the latest technology has an important role in supporting people through the economic downturn, says minister for Digital Inclusion Paul Murphy.
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Google's Chrome gets webmail and security updates

Google has patched the latest versions of Chrome to make the browser work better with Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Three-quarters of European firms to expand CRM projects this year, says Gartner

More than three quarters of European customer relationship management (CRM) users are planning to enhance their investments this year despite the recession,...
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
Monster could face compensation claims from UK users

Online recruitment site Monster.com could face legal action from 4.5m UK job seekers after hackers stole personal details from users around the world.
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
Barbour weathers supply chain demands with Lawson

Clothing firm J Barbour & Sons is deploying a new ERP and supply chain system from Lawson Software to improve its operations.
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
Google offers offline Gmail system

Google is now offering its offline Gmail system to enable email users to carry on working on their webmail even when they don't have an internet connection.
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
New Yahoo chief says company should not be broken up

Yahoo's new CEO says the search portal will be better served by being kept whole rather than sold off in chunks to appease shareholders. d
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
SAP financial results: sales down, income up

SAP had a year of two halves, said CEO Henning Kagermann, as he reported the software company’s fourth quarter and full year financial results for 2008.
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
SAP Q4 results: Is ERP recession-proof?

SAP will be posting its fourthquarter 2008 results tomorrow, amid speculation that the enterprise software business is being hit hard because businesses...
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
Internet Explorer 8 RC1 available for download

Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 available for download .
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
Lloyds TSB Asset Finance builds next-generation contact centre

Lloyds TSB Asset Finance has awarded Cable & Wireless a three-year, multi-million pound contract to deliver a next generation contact centre platform.

The...
January 26, 2009 26 Jan'09
Manufacturing sector faces darkest days on record

Demand for the UK's manufactured goods hit record lows, and is poised to go lower, the CBI , an employers' organisation,...
January 26, 2009 26 Jan'09
UK IT sales will be up this year despite recession

The UK high-tech market is showing resilience despite the economic crisis, with IT-revenues set to grow 1.3% this year, according to European market research organisation EITO.
January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
Colt telecom connects more than 12 traders to Bats

Colt Telecom has connected over a dozen trading firms to Bats since the multilateral trading facility (MTF), was launched in the UK.

Colt...
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Microsoft results: Ballmer needs Windows 7 upgrades

Microsoft's lower than expected second quarter results underline the software giant's failure to convince business users to upgrade to Windows Vista, according to analyst Gartner.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Microsoft financial results: 5,000 jobs cut, 1,400 will go immediately

Microsoft is to shed 5000 jobs following poorer than expected financial results for its the second quarter.Some1400 jobs are going immediately.
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
Greggs manages its dough with Coda finance system

Greggs has gone live with a new efficient finance system. The bakery chain is now using the Neon system from...
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
Surgeons slam Choose and Book

John Black, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has criticised aspects of the Choose and Book system which he says force doctors and patients apart.
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
Autonomy enjoys 47% increase in sales for the year

Autonomy has announced record annual results, with sales up 47%. Autonomy's software allows systems to form conceptual and contextual understanding...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Foodvest consolidates IT with UC4 to unify company

Foodvest , a £1.1bn seafood manufacturing firm, is consolidating its IT systems and applications architecture...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Forrester warns of SharePoint limitations

Organisations must recognise the limitations of Microsoft's SharePoint platform if they are to implement and use it successfully, says research from analyst Forrester.
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Cardiff County Council gets LogRhythm to beat the GCSx blues

Cardiff County Council will use computer log management and analysis software...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Most UK companies fail to manage virtualisation, survey shows

More than half of UK businesses (51%) have not adapted datacentre management strategies to meet the challenges of virtualisation,research has revealed.
January 16, 2009 16 Jan'09
Firms keep SAP upgrade projects on track

Most SAP customers are moving ahead with plans for upgrading their SAP systems to SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) 6.0, despite the economic downturn....
January 16, 2009 16 Jan'09
Top five technologies in Windows 7

Windows 7 will be the second release of Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system built on the Vista kernel.
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Windows 7 Beta 1: First impressions from the inside out

With a heightened hype factor typical to that of any Microsoft product launch, Windows 7 Beta 1 was recently made available to those of us within the industry willing to put our necks on the block and install this operating system "work in progress"...
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Five predictions for business intelligence

Analyst firm Gartner has tabled five predictions for business intelligence (BI) for 2009-2012.
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Apple shares drop as Steve Jobs takes six months off

Apple share prices dipped 7% in late trading in the US after chief executive Steve Jobs announced he is to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
PC World parent company faces increased financial pressure

DSG International, the retail group that includes Dixons, high-street consumer electronics chain Currys Digital, and small business IT equipment suppliers PC World Business, MacWarehouse and Equanet, is facing financial pressure as its credit ...
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Irish Life saves £100K+ by offloading Unisys data

Irish Life & Permanent Group (IL&P) has deployed Attachmate Databridge to help the company cut the workload of its existing Unisys platforms...