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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 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 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 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).
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 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
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
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 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 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 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
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 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 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...
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.
July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10
Government scraps £80m Microsoft licensing deal with NHS

The government has scrapped the long-running NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) enterprise agreement (EA) software licensing deal with Microsoft after deciding there was no business case or budget to renew it.
March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10
Microsoft loses appeal on Office XML patent dispute with i4i

Microsoft has lost an appeal in its dispute with i4i over XML support in Office 2003/2007, following a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
October 21, 2009 21 Oct'09
Israel carves a niche in IT security

IT security, risk, governance, continuity and compliance technologies are fast becoming some of Israel's top exports.

Analysing and...
July 31, 2009 31 Jul'09
Gary McKinnon loses case to avoid extradition, could face 60 years in jail

Hacker Gary McKinnon has failed in his last attempt to avoid extradition to the United States where he could face 60 years in prison.
July 17, 2009 17 Jul'09
Apollo 11: 40 years on, where is software engineering today?

The Apollo 11 lunar landing would have been impossible had it not been for software engineering.
June 15, 2009 15 Jun'09
Final cockpit moments with blocked pitot sensors

Two fatal crashes of passenger aircraft show that it is dangerous for pilots to have conflicting information and warnings in the cockpit.

The recovered...
June 12, 2009 12 Jun'09
Crash One: Birgenair Flight 301

This is the extraordinary story of an aircraft which was in good flying order except for a blocked pitot tube which caused multiple problems.
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
August 21, 2008 21 Aug'08
Microsoft and Novell expand Windows/Linux integration deal

Microsoft and Novell are extending their interoperability agreement to tie Windows closer to Novell's SUSE Linux in the enterprise.
January 07, 2008 07 Jan'08
Fire IT project two years late and £70m overbudget

A government IT project aiming to centralise fire control rooms is two years behind schedule and more than 50% overbudget, according to a report from the Communities and Local Government Committee.
December 07, 2007 07 Dec'07
EC to use mobile phones to track carbon footprints

New application allows users to see how their daily choices impact climate change in terms of the major greenhouse gases
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Users leaving Fibre Channel for iSCSI Sans find pros, cons

Users who recently updated aging Fibre Channel equipment with new iSCSI San products have found ease of use can be a double-edged sword.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Adaptec reports losses

Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
CommVault revenues spike after update of Simpana backup app

CommVault attributes a spike in sales to the integration of features such as archiving, replication and search into its backup products.
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
DreamWorks draws on storage for animation

DreamWorks' senior technologist says it takes a lot of emerging storage technologies to make an animation movie.
October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07
VoIP certification credentials

Many certifications touch on voice over IP topics tangentially, but numerous credentials now focus a fairly substantial portion of their coverage on this subject matter. In this certification survey, we take a look at available certifications, ...
October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07
SNW Preview: Data protection makes a stand

Led by EMC's integration of data deduplication and CDP into its backup software, data protection products are prominent at Storage Networking World.
October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07
VMware takes on data migration

VMware supports migrating data between disc arrays with Storage VMotion, changing the equation between server and storage virtualisation devices.
October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07
Unified communications new priority for HP

Unified communications is a confusing area with a number of vendors in the mix. HP has launched new services to help ease companies into unified communications and help them determine which integrated tools will best fit their business goals.
October 07, 2007 07 Oct'07
IP telephony adoption rising, quality sagging

IP telephony adoption continues to grow, but service quality is lagging behind, according to a user survey from Psytechnics.
October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07
Podcast: the true cost of IT security

In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Martin Sadler, director of HP's Trusted Systems Lab, about how much should we be expected to spend and how much security is enough. Hackers are getting smarter and Martin believes newly trained IT ...
October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07
Pillar announces support for 1 TB SATA drives

Pillar is one of the earliest to announce 1 TB SATA drives in an enterprise array. IBM's SVC becomes the first storage virtualization product certified with VMware.
October 02, 2007 02 Oct'07
Web 2.0 strategies for SMBs

Web 2.0 technologies are catching on at companies of all sizes. Find out how to make them work for your SMB with SearchSMB.com's top five Web 2.0 tips.
September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07
Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 RC0

Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is now available for customer review.
September 25, 2007 25 Sep'07
How to purchase a data encryption product

Data security is now a critical problem for every company, regardless of size. This buying guide explores the factors involved in purchasing data encryption hardware and software products.
September 24, 2007 24 Sep'07
PCI council adds Pin security to remit

The PCI Security Standards Council has added Pin Entry Device (PED) security technology to its payments industry testing portfolio to streamline standardisation.
September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07
3PAR adds tiered storage management tool

The new version of the System Reporter management tool for 3PAR's high-end arrays now includes monitoring for tiered storage environments.
September 09, 2007 09 Sep'07
Virtual appliance lets users convert DAS to iSCSI San

LeftHand Networks has released an edition of its SaniQ iSCSI San software that will convert locally attached disc to networked storage.
September 07, 2007 07 Sep'07
Microsoft update to patch critical Windows flaw

Microsoft plans to patch a critical flaw in Windows and plug holes in MSN Messenger, Visual Studio, and Windows services for Unix.
September 07, 2007 07 Sep'07
Government warns of dangerous QuickBooks Online flaw

Attackers could exploit two flaws in the popular Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition to cause buffer overflows and download or upload files in arbitrary locations, US-CERT warned.
September 07, 2007 07 Sep'07
Cybercriminals employ toolkits in rising numbers to steal data

The market is increasing for crimeware toolkits that help cybercriminals avoid detection and exploit flaws, according to new research from security vendor, Finjan.