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• April 11, 2011 11 Apr'11

  Manageability issues impede adoption of virtualisation

  Virtual infrastructure management challenges are hindering the adoption of virtualisation within businesses, according to research.

• April 08, 2011 08 Apr'11

  Admins face huge April Patch Tuesday security update from Microsoft

  Microsoft has announced that it will release 17 security bulletins to address 64 vulnerabilities

• April 08, 2011 08 Apr'11

  Facebook has launched a project to ‘open source’ its datacentre

  In the spirit of open source software, Facebook says it wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry in its

• April 06, 2011 06 Apr'11

  Indian BI technology market to grow by 16% in 2011: Gartner

  The Indian BI technology market in 2011 will see a 16% growth over 2010. Read more about the latest BI technology market trends in this Gartner forecast.

• March 31, 2011 31 Mar'11

  SMB IT spending seeing significant growth

  Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are increasing IT budgets and recruiting more IT skills

• March 31, 2011 31 Mar'11

  Troops in danger as outdated systems at the MoD reach meltdown

  Outdated IT systems at the The Ministry of Defence (MoD) are reaching meltdown, with the risk of seriously affecting troops' ability to carry out operations, a National Audit Office report has found.

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Spotify hit by malicious ads

  Spotify, the popular streaming music service, has been displaying malicious advertisements to users of its Free version.

• March 23, 2011 23 Mar'11

  SAP combines GRC and BI in new platform

  SAP has launched a new governance, risk and compliance platform that combines and integrates existing GRC and business intelligence technologies.

• 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 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 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

  IT failures blamed for immigration system faults

  IT failures have been blamed for failures of the points based immigration system in a National Audit Office (NAO) report.

• 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

  IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour

  Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade....

• 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 02, 2011 02 Mar'11

  Download 180-day free trial for Windows Embedded Compact 7 OS

  The latest version of Microsoft's operating system (OS) for embedded devices, Windows Embedded Compact 7 is now available on a 180-day free trial.

• 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 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  SAP BW aids enterprise-wide data management, reporting at Essar Steel

  SAP BW helps Essar Steel form a common platform to stage and integrate data from all systems and present users with a one-stop solution to their data needs.

• February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: Microsoft promotes co-ordinated vulnerability disclosure

  Software producers remain largely unresponsive to input from security researchers, according to Aaron Portnoy, manager of the security research team HP TippingPoint.

• 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 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  BMW's Aida project on song with DS's V6 PLM system

  BMW has selected Dassault Systèmes' V6 product lifecycle management (PLM) software for its cars' future electrical, electronics, and embedded software (E/E)...

• 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).

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  ARM grows profits 47% in Q4 2010

  UK-based chip developer, ARM, has reported growth in profits and sales following increased demand for smartphone and tablet licences in the fourth quarter of 2010.

• 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 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).

• 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.