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• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Twitter increases security with HTTPS encrypted tweets setting

  Twitter has added a new profile setting to increase the level of security when accessing the mobile blogging site over an unsecured Wi-Fi connections.

• March 16, 2011 16 Mar'11

  Deutsche Bank uses social CRM to fine-tune corporate banking

  Social media is driving product development at Deutsche Bank. The banking giant is using web 2.0 technologies to engage with 1,000 of its corporate customers, to find out how it can make corporate banking run more smoothly.

• March 15, 2011 15 Mar'11

  Highlands and Islands Enterprise moves to shared services

  The Scottish government's Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) economic and community development agency has signed a deal with Atos Origin to move to a shared services model.

• March 15, 2011 15 Mar'11

  Adobe warns of zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash

  Adobe has published a security advisory for a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash that can be used to take control of an attacked machine.

• March 11, 2011 11 Mar'11

  Private cloud takes Harris schools higher

  Academy school body the Harris Federation has deployed cloud technology to link its member schools together and provide an IT platform that can scale up as membership grows.

• March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11

  DHL launches real-time information to improve supply chain

  DHL Supply Chain has launched a live order tracking system (Lots) to deliver real-time information to its customers.

• March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11

  Four risk areas CIOs must consider when contracting cloud services

  CIOs should be aware of four main risks when contracting for cloud services, says analyst firm Gartner.

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Google buys price comparison website for £37.7m

  Google is to acquire UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m.

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud

  The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it"

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Facebook enlists Samaritans to counsel suicidal users

  The Samaritans has teamed up with Facebook to enable users to report friends contemplating suicide.

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Adobe extends Flash to Apple devices with free HTML5 conversion tool

  Adobe has released for free download an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 converter to the development community through beta technology site, Adobe Labs.

• March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11

  France's G20 files target of cyber attack

  France's files on the G20 meetings were the target of a cyber attack, the country's finance minister has confirmed.

• March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11

  HSBC uses token to secure smartphone banking

  HSBC is sending four million online banking customers a security token which will enable them to log in to their online bank account wherever they are, without using a card reader.

• March 01, 2011 01 Mar'11

  Intel finalises £5bn acquisition of McAfee

  Intel has confirmed the completion of its $7.7bn (£5bn) acquisition of security software giant McAfee.

• February 28, 2011 28 Feb'11

  Gmail bug hits 150,000 users

  Around 150,000 Gmail account holders were hit by a system glitch at the weekend which reset their accounts, losing e-mails, attachments and Google Chat logs.

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  Juniper aims to wrap Cisco with QFabric datacentre management

  Datacentre operators and cloud computing suppliers could slash their power and space requirements while running up to 10 times faster

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  Microsoft fixes security flaw in malware protection engine

  Microsoft has patched a flaw in its malware protection engine that could be exploited to gain control of victim's computer.

• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  Legacy kit and lack of skills hold back digital video surveillance

  A huge legacy investment in analogue equipment and a lack of data integration skills are holding back more widespread adoption of fully digital video surveillance systems, according to research just published.

• February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: Top attacks business will face in 2011

  Social networking will be the attacker platform of choice in 2011, says Ed Skoudis, founder and senior security consultant with InGuardians.

• February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11

  TCS targets SME market with cloud computing

  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has set its sites on the SME market, with the launch of a new product designed specifically for small businesses.

• February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  Case study: Salvatore Ferragamo steps into the future with SAP

  Italian shoe and other luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is standardising on SAP ...

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  Social media policy: Seven questions to ask

  Businesses must create a social media policy to guide employees using social networks and micro-blogging sites, according to Gartner.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  Mobile workers practise lax security

  More than half of Europeans practise unsafe networking when they work away from the office, according to research by German remote access experts NCP Engineering.

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  IT managers find Internet Explorer 9 fails to render websites and web applications

  With the development of Internet Explorer 9.0 near completion, ComputerWeekly.com has learned that thousands of sites and applications are incompatible with the new browser and its immediate predecessor.

• 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.