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• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  IT companies dominate global brand index as Apple leads top 100 companies' growth

  According to Interbrand's Top 100 Best Global Brands report, Apple saw the biggest rise in brand value while HTC became the one to watch. Interbrand's index places over 20 IT companies in the top 100 index, six of which are in the top 10.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  GPU cracks six-character password in four seconds

  A £30 nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Warwick University enters final phase of three-step IT transformation programme

  Warwick University has started the last phase of its three-year IT transformation, introducing small, user-driven IT projects to transform its IT operation into one that offers services users need, rather than merely supporting technology.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  IT supplier CSC repays £170m as NHS complains of Lorenzo record progress

  IT supplier CSC has repaid £170m after the NHS said it was unhappy with the progress of CSC's Lorenzo patient care records contract. The NHS paid a £200m advanced payment to CSC for the 2011 project costs when a memorandum of understanding was ...

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Back-up datacentre challenge - to build or to host?

  The Royal College of General Practitioners has built its own back-up datacentre using a private cloud architecture, rather than use an external provider.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Kindle Fire could send tablet prices into nose dive, says market researcher YouGov

  Tablet devices must drop in price to £250 to remain viable in the UK according to market research firm YouGov, which said the Amazon Kindle Fire could undercut rivals to create a two-horse race between Amazon and Apple.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Callcentre workers steal £400k from TUI Travel

  Four callcentre workers stole over £400,000 from their employer TUI Travel by paying customer refunds to themselves when processing claims.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison debuts flagship analytics system of 'parallel architecture'

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has showcased an in-memory database engine for big data applications and a processor to rival IBM, combined in a strategy of engineering hardware and software together under a "parallel architecture" approach, similar to ...

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  HP completes £7.1bn Autonomy acquisition

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) has completed its acquisition of software company Autonomy for £7.1bn. HP said the acquisition positioned it as a leader in the large and growing enterprise information management space.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Universal Credit deadline forced DWP to use “unproven” agile development

  Tight deadlines left the Department for Work and Pensions with little choice but to use "unproven" agile methods to develop its £2bn Universal Credit (UC) system, said the Cabinet Office Major Projects Authority (MPA) in a confidential report ...

• October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11

  Legislation helps SMEs protect intellectual property rights in Patents County Court

  A law has come into force to make it easier for SMEs to protect intellectual property, ensuring lower-value cases will be dealt with at the less costly Patents County Court and introducing a damages cap of £500,000 for all claims to the PCC.

• September 23, 2011 23 Sep'11

  Burying the NHS National Programme for IT

  The government's decision to accelerate the dismantling of the NHS National Project for IT (NPfIT) came as little surprise to those who have followed the terminally ill project since 2002. But what is the prognosis for the NHS's badly needed ...

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  Global BPO sales to reach £60bn in 2015

  The world market for business process outsourcing (BPO) will be worth $93.4bn (£59.7bn) in 2015 compared with $72bn last year, according to Ovum.

• September 16, 2011 16 Sep'11

  Legacy application modernization benefits revealed

  Legacy application modernization can make COBOL reusable. Discover what modernizing legacy applications can do for you.

• August 19, 2011 19 Aug'11

  What does HP's Autonomy acquisition mean for the UK tech sector?

  HP's bombshell announcement that it is to acquire Autonomy has left many questioning where this leaves the UK software industry. Computer Weekly asks the experts what the deal means for UK home-grown tech talent and what HP is likely to achieve with...

• August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11

  APEJ’s content management software sales grow by 11% in H2-2010:IDC

  Content management software sales in APEJ region grew by 11% in second half of 2010. Know the latest trends in content management software space.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Managed services spending by SMBs to witness 23% growth: AMI Partners

  Indian SMBs are aggressively adopting managed services. Explore how this market segment will shape up in the near future.

• July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11

  Security software market remains fragmented: Gartner

  Top five vendors command no more than 44% of security software market.

• July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11

  E-commerce services launched by Union Bank of India

  Union Bank of India has introduced e-commerce services in collaboration with ECS. Know how the new services can bolster the bank’s e-commerce portfolio and customer base.

• July 07, 2011 07 Jul'11

  Business analyst skills shortage continues as IT job market grows

  Business analysts are the IT staff most in demand for permanent and contract roles, according to KPMG.

• May 13, 2011 13 May'11

  White House proposes cyber network security legislation

  The White House has proposed cyber security legislation to protect the US government and private computer systems from millions of daily cyber attacks.

• 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 29, 2011 29 Mar'11

  Government puts open source at the heart of its new IT strategy

  The government has launched its much-anticipated new IT strategy, highlighting open source and a promise that the coalition will do things better.

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Government Digital Service launched to oversee Whitehall websites

  Whitehall has set up a new organisation to oversee moves to improve the digital delivery of public services.

• March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11

  SAP upgrade: 6 factors to consider

  Many Indian companies are likely to opt for SAP upgrade given the business benefits. These 6 factors will help CIOs to plan and execute their SAP upgrades effectively.

• March 02, 2011 02 Mar'11

  Government losing billions by not moving to the cloud

  The public sector could be making unnecessary redundancies due to a reluctance to innovate in IT and shift to the cloud, says former CIO John Suffolk

• 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 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  Middle East governments stepping up internet control, study shows

  The internet has proved to be a powerful tool for rallying social and political change, but Middle East governments have also recognised their capability to disrupt communications

• February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11

  Sales management tool on public cloud at Kotak Mahindra Bank

  Institutional Equities Unit of Kotak Mahindra Bank deploys Oracle CRM on Demand, a sales management tool on public cloud. Project yields benefits galore.

• February 20, 2011 20 Feb'11

  Hero Honda upgrades SAP R3 to ECC6

  The SAP R3 to ECC6 upgrade came about because the auto company wanted to use SAP for IFRS implementation

• February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Intellect presses government to promote IT in UK economic growth

  The government has agreed to promote the role of technology in leading the UK's economic growth, following a meeting with IT industry body Intellect.

• February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11

  Elder's edge: Sales force management on cloud platform

  Elder Pharma gave up its manual processes for sales force management and went in for a public cloud platform. The results have been remarkable

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  EC plans could open up ICT procurement for SMEs

  Technology start-ups and SMEs could benefit from European Commission (EC) plans to improve SME procurement.

• January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?

  Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena?

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Gartner outlines six money-making CIO profiles

  A new generation of CIOs with skills to make the business money will replace traditional CIOs by the middle of the decade, says Gartner vice-president and researcher Ken McGee.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Smart meter and smart grids: security risk or opportunity?

  A smart meter in every home in the UK by 2017 is the government plan as a first step towards a smart grid, but how can we ensure the benefits will outweigh the security risks?

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  FDM seek 1000 graduates for training scheme

  IT services provider FDM is recruiting 1000 graduates for its training scheme in 2011.

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  US government issues Twitter subpoena over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

  Twitter has been issued with a subpoena by the US government to release the personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, including founder Julian Assange.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  Government unveils £200m tech centre network details

  The government has published plans to spend £200m on a network of high-tech manufacturing centres

• 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.

• October 07, 2010 07 Oct'10

  Patent-holder Intellectual Ventures files IP complaint against Motorola Mobility

  RBI + third parties Approved Intellectual Ventures has demanded a jury trial after Motorola Mobility failed to reach an agreement on a licence to use hardware and software in its mobile phones. Google announced plans to buy the Motorola handset ...

• October 04, 2010 04 Oct'10

  A CIOs guide to Microsoft negotiations

  Survivors -- and some winners -- of Microsoft software license negotiations share their cautionary tales.

• December 07, 2009 07 Dec'09

  NHS IT scheme to be scaled back

  The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT.

• 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

• December 19, 2008 19 Dec'08

  Mobile broadband demand props up crunched WiMAX

  Research predicts global recession to cause enterprises to postpone WiMAX adoption but mobile will lead recovery

• January 22, 2008 22 Jan'08

  Fujitsu may quit NHS National Programme for IT

  The board of an NHS trust has learned of a "significant" risk of ­Fujitsu ending its £900m contract to supply and implement hospital systems across southern England as part of the National Programme for IT.

• November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07

  Non-unified communications can cost millions

  Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting workflow and business processes, a new study has revealed.

• 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 01, 2007 01 Nov'07

  ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

  Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.