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• April 03, 2012 03 Apr'12

  How the cloud found Mitchells & Butlers

  The cloud was found to be a good fit for hospitality company Mitchells & Butlers after it approached IT providers with a set of outcomes

• February 21, 2012 21 Feb'12

  Social media users demand more meaningful interactivity

  British people want more from the social media platforms they use as demand for more meaningful user experiences increases.

• January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12

  Nokia smartphones bomb as sales drop 27%

  Nokia’s latest results for Q4 2011 show just how far the company that was once the standard choice for almost every corporate mobile user has fallen.

• January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12

  Tim Berners-Lee supports campaign against US PIPA and SOPA

  Father of the web Berner-Lee, latest to support senator Ron Wyden's initiative against PIPA and SOPA.

• January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12

  Olympics resale site still offline after two days

  The Olympics tickets resale site has been offline for more than two days, after tens of thousands of people clamoured online buy unwanted tickets on 6 January.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  CIOs believe cloud, SaaS, consumerisation and mobility increase risk

  Business models such as cloud computing and trends such as the consumerisation of IT, social media and mobility are exposing performance blind spots in IT management, a CIO survey has revealed.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  Amazon sees profits plummet 73% as company eyes iPad’s market share

  Amazon's profits plunged 73% to $63m in Q3, as it invested to take on the iPad with its e-readers and Kindle Fire tablet computer. Sales grew 44% to $10.88bn, boosted by pre-orders for the Amazon Kindle Fire.

• October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11

  Virgin Media Business sees sales increase by 1.2 per cent

  Virgin Business Media saw its sales increase by 1.2% to £154m compared to the same period last year, as the company saw an increase in public sector business.

• October 10, 2011 10 Oct'11

  Google previews new Dart web programming language

  Google has introduced a new programming language, Dart , for building web applications.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Boots launches mobile site to expand multichannel offering

  Retailer Boots has launched a mobile version of its website to expand its multichannel portfolio.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  Gartner: Best defence against social media threats is monitoring and education

  Blocking social media in the enterprise encourages bad behaviour by employees but does not prevent access, warns Gartner.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  RightMove renders property maps with Google

  RightMove is the UK's biggest user of Google Maps and one of the largest users of the mapping software in the world.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  New Look increases sales by 45% after mobile site launch

  Fashion retailer New Look has increased sales by 45% three months after the launch of its mobile commerce site.

• September 15, 2011 15 Sep'11

  Groupon to float as Facebook puts off IPO until late 2012

  Online discount site Groupon is reported to be planning a flotation, while Facebook is rumoured to be delaying its IPO until the end of 2012.

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Retailer Aurora gives iPads to shopfloor sales staff to check stock and shorten queue times

  Fashion retailer Aurora is providing iPads to sales staff at London branches of Coast, Oasis, Warehouse and Karen Millen.

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Sabre develops apps marketplace for travel industry

  Sabre, the global distribution system for reserving hotels, airlines, cruise ships, rail tickets and car hire, has taken the concept of the app store and applied in to its own travel market.

• September 09, 2011 09 Sep'11

  Twitter plans to expand advertising business as investment raises value to $8bn

  Twitter has outlined plans to increase advertising revenue and avoid an initial public offering (IPO) after reaching more than 100 million active users.

• September 08, 2011 08 Sep'11

  Nike+ problems demonstrate the risk of social media success

  The rewards for creating a customer-focused online community are huge. But success comes at a price, as recent issues encountered by Nike's Nike+ running site illustrate. Matt Scott investigates.

• September 07, 2011 07 Sep'11

  CIO interview: Mike Bracken, UK government director of digital

  Whitehall is not exactly known for being at the bleeding edge of technological innovation. But as the newly appointed government director of digital, Mike Bracken is set to change that perception. In an exclusive interview, he discusses the ...

• August 09, 2011 09 Aug'11

  Twitter acquires social network site Bagcheck

  Social network site Bagcheck has been bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum.

• July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11

  Why the High Court ruling in the Newzbin2 case is such a big deal

  The creative industries have welcomed the UK High Court ruling that BT must block access to pirated content aggregator site Newzbin2, but why is the ruling seen as such a game changer?

• July 29, 2011 29 Jul'11

  Government axes 376 more websites

  The government has axed nearly half of its websites since June last year, following recommendations that all digital public services should be under one URL.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  KLM deploys RightNow natural language search for mobile website

  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled out software-as-a-service provider RightNow's CX Intent Guide on its mobile website.

• July 26, 2011 26 Jul'11

  Tate museum group chooses Drupal and cloud hosting for new website

  The Tate museum group is scrapping the use of HTML code in favour of open source content management platform Drupal...

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Businesses should prepare for Web 3.0, says Booz&Co

  The next generation of web technology will transform the way businesses work within five to ten years, research by management consulting firm Booz&Co predicts.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  US court gives Oracle another chance to put its patent case against Google

  A US judge has rejected Oracle's claim for $2.6bn in damages from Google for infringing Java patents, but has given Oracle the chance to come up with a more reasonable claim...

• July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11

  Sainsbury’s debuts mobile shopping site

  Retailer Sainsbury's has launched a mobile version of its website to extend its commerce platform to additional channels. The optimised mobile site is built using a mobile platform provided by Usablenet. The platform provides access to over 15,000 ...

• July 01, 2011 01 Jul'11

  Betfair sees 120% increase in mobile customers

  The online gambling firm increased sales via mobile applications by 88% as customer mobile use grows.

• June 16, 2011 16 Jun'11

  Case study: New Look builds social media platform to extend e-commerce site

  New Look has launched a social media platform to extend its e-commerce website and multi-channel offering. New Look Daily is a cloud-based customer hub that aggregates social media feeds from Twitter and Facebook and allows customers to upload photo...

• June 14, 2011 14 Jun'11

  Facebook IPO rumoured to value company at $100bn

  Facebook is rumoured to be gearing up for an IPO in the first quarter of 2012, which could see the social networking site reach a valuation of $100bn (£60bn).

• June 02, 2011 02 Jun'11

  E-mail accounts of senior US officials targeted in Chinese hack attack

  Chinese hackers have accessed the accounts of hundreds of Gmail users, including senior US officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and officials in several Asian countries, Google has said.

• June 01, 2011 01 Jun'11

  Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple locked in platform war, says Eric Schmidt

  Eric Schmidt has outlined a "gang of four" companies - Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple - locked in a platform war.

• May 26, 2011 26 May'11

  Cross-site scripting attack on Hotmail highlights personal e-mail risk to business

  A vulnerability in the Hotmail site has enabled hackers to steal an unknown number of messages from users' accounts, according to security firm Trend Micro.

• May 25, 2011 25 May'11

  Retailers fail to meet demand for mobile loyalty schemes

  Retailers are failing to meet customers' demands for mobile technology as part of loyalty scheme programmes, according to a YouGov survey.

• May 24, 2011 24 May'11

  CIO interview: Keep Britain Tidy head of IT Rich Kavanagh on social media strategy

  Keep Britain Tidy's head of ICT, Rich Kavanagh, tells Computer Weekly how the charity is successfully using social networking tools to interact with citizens and supporters.

• May 23, 2011 23 May'11

  Demand for e-commerce skills spikes 158% as retailers expand multi-channel services

  Retail sector demand for IT professionals with e-commerce skills has more than doubled in the past year.

• May 09, 2011 09 May'11

  Carphone Warehouse founder hailed as UK's first digital billionaire

  Charles Dunstone, the man who started Carphone Warehouse, was named as the UK's first digital billionaire by the 2011 Sunday Times rich list.

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Facebook Studio woos advertisers with campaign comparison tool

  Facebook is to launch a site to enable advertisers to view and comment on advertising campaigns on the social networking site.

• March 22, 2011 22 Mar'11

  What is the cost of developing apps for mobile marketplaces?

  Targeting consumers through smartphone apps is proving to be a good business bet. Jenny Williams reports on the costs of creating apps for different mobile marketplaces.

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Tim Berners-Lee to help protect net neutrality in UK

  Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is to work with the Broadband Stakeholders Group to ensure the UK works towards a more open internet.

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Tests show Android is 50% faster than Apple iOS for web browsing

  The latest version of Google's Android operating system (OS) is 50% faster at loading web pages than Apple's iOS, according to research.

• March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11

  Mobile ticketing users to treble by 2015

  The number of people redeeming travel and entertainment tickets via their mobile phones is set to treble by 2015, according to a report by Juniper Research.

• 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 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Apple adds digital subscription service to app store

  Apple has extended its digital subscription billing service used for Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper to all magazines, newspapers, videos and music on its application store.

• 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 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 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Broadband boosts BT profits to £531m

  An early return to positive cash flow at Global Services helped BT to produce earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation 7% higher on sales that fell 3%

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  O2 to apply for e-money licence to support NFC payments

  O2 will apply for an e-money licence this year, signalling its commitment to support contactless payments in the UK in the near future.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Yahoo blames Microsoft implementation for Windows Phone 7 data charges

  Yahoo has spoken out after being blamed for excessive data charges experienced by some Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users.

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  LinkedIn reveals plans for an IPO

  Professional networking site LinkedIn has revealed plans to raise up to $175m (£110m) in an initial public offering (IPO).