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• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Everything Everywhere to reinvest £450m windfall

  Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere is to reinvest profits made from the upcoming sale of its 1,800MHz spectrum in the UK's mobile network, following criticism that the sale of a public asset would be diverted to German and French ...

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  US and EU hold first joint cybersecurity exercise

  The US and EU are holding their first joint cybersecurity exercise in Brussels on 3 November 2011, involving more than 20 EU member states and supported by the EU's cybersecurity agency Enisa and the US Department of Homeland Security.

• November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11

  Hague calls for collaboration to realise full potential of cyberspace

  It is increasingly clear that countries with weak cyber defences and capabilities will find themselves at a serious strategic disadvantage given the rise of state-sponsored cyber attacks, according to foreign secretary William Hague.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Facebook admits to 600,000 cyber attacks a day

  Facebook has revealed that every 24 hours it receives around 600,000 logins to the social networking website from impostors attempting to access users' messages, photos and other personal information.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  UKtech50: We launch the search for the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has launched the second annual UKtech50, the definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the leaders driving the creation of a high-tech economy.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  US and Canadian subscribers sue RIM over Blackberry service outage

  Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is facing legal action by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day services outage in mid-October caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure.

• 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

  Microsoft claims most Android smartphone manufacturers now pay patent fees

  Microsoft has claimed most Android smartphone manufacturers now pay the software giant patent fees.

• October 24, 2011 24 Oct'11

  UK broadband speeds increase, but thousands left in the slow lane

  Thirty percent of UK internet traffic is now at speeds above 5Mbps, an increase of 70% compared to last year.