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• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  Gartner: Enterprise software spending to rise by 6.4% in 2012

  For 2012, Gartner expects telecommunications equipment and enterprise software to see the biggest growth in spite of the looming recession.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  Shell moves SAP maintenance to Accenture

  Oil giant Shell has transferred the management of its HR and payroll applications to Accenture as part of a multi-year SAP managed service.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  RIM shareholders support plan to appoint a new chairman

  Shares in Blackberry maker Research In Motion gained 7% on Tuesday in response to news that the company plans to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.

• December 23, 2011 23 Dec'11

  Top 10 SME IT stories of 2011

  For small businesses, 2011 has been another tough year, with many continuing to batten down the hatches as the economy continues to stall. But at the same time it has also been a year of technological innovation, both in terms of SMEs using the ...

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

  Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  Adobe to release out-of-cycle patch for latest vulnerability

  Adobe has issued a security advisory about a newly discovered and still unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat which is being used in "limited, targeted attacks in the wild".

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT

  Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Framework accelerates safety-critical defence systems development

  Manufacturers and academics are collaborating in a 3.5 million project to create a software modelling framework that will speed up the development and certification of safety-critical systems used in aerospace and defence.

• November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

  Centrica CIO quits to join HP

  David Bickerton, the global chief information officer at Centrica, has resigned from the utilities giant to join Hewlett-Packard.

• November 18, 2011 18 Nov'11

  MIT scientists take a step closer to artificial intelligence

  Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an analogue silicon chip with 400 transistors that emulates the activity of a brain synapse in the first step to building truly intelligent systems.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Tesco trials in-store and online augmented reality technology

  Tesco is trialling augmented reality (AR) technology in-store and online to change how customers interact with products.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Computer Weekly wins digital publishing award

  Computer Weekly has won a prestigious publishing industry award for the product development of the year.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• November 11, 2011 11 Nov'11

  Social media is more than a number of "likes"

  The number of “likes” on Facebook, is not a measure of success according to Anthony Bradley, co-author of The Social Organisation.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Welcome to the new-look ComputerWeekly.com

  Computer Weekly has launched its brand new website - the most important online development in the brand’s 45-year history.

• November 09, 2011 09 Nov'11

  Adobe to change mobile Flash player strategy and axe European jobs

  Adobe plans to abandon its Flash player for mobile browsers and cut 750 jobs across North America and Europe as part of a reorganisation.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  City University London unveils scholarship for information leadership course

  City University London has launched its IBM Enterprise Computing scholarship to award a place on its Masters of Information Leadership (MIL) course.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  BT second quarter sales fall 2% despite 166,000 new broadband customers

  BT sales fell 2% in its fiscal Q2 despite the addition of 166,000 broadband customers and continued growth in its Openreach and Global Services businesses.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  Amazon launches lending library for Kindle e-reader users

  Amazon has launched a lending library service to allow Kindle e-reader users to borrow e-books.

• November 02, 2011 02 Nov'11

  GB Group buys Capscan for £11.2m

  Identity management technology company GB Group has acquired address management company Capscan for £11.2m.

• November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11

  Migration committee calls for opinions on minimum salary for IT staff on ICT visas

  The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is calling for opinions on whether the minimum pay of £40,000 is set at the right level for overseas employees brought to the UK on Intra Company Transfer visas (ICT)

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Barclays customers unable to log into online bank accounts

  Barclays has confirmed some customers are unable to log into online bank accounts and are experiencing slow response times

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Samsung overtakes Apple in global smartphone shipments

  Samsung has overtaken Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments after Apple suffered its lowest levels of shipments in two years

• 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 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  UK security strategy draws on growing expertise across Whitehall

  The UK's soon-to-be-released cyber security strategy includes input from policy makers across government, says Nigel Harrison of the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (OCSIA).

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Open University expands computer-aided teaching portal for educators worlwide

  The Open University has completed the second stage of a £2.5m Department of Education funded initiative to deliver computer-aided teaching to the classroom.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Survey finds UK IT jobs concentrated in London and south-east England

  With software houses and the financial services sector creating by far the most permanent IT jobs, career opportunities are being condensed into south-east England.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  HP announces U-turn to keep PC division after Whitman completes internal review

  HP has reversed its decision to spin-off the company's PC division following an internal review by CEO Meg Whitman, who replaced form head Leo Apotheker in September.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?

  The last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? Warwick Ashford reports

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  How Unilever took control of its software

  Unilever has automated the processes it uses to manage its software globally through a service which has saved millions of pounds, reduced the complexity of its software portfolio and improved security.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  One in five IT staff expected to quit current employer within 12 months

  One in five IT staff are likely to leave their current employer next year in search of more interesting projects and career opportunities, while 80% feel they need a job change to progress their career, according to exclusive research.

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  John McCarthy, father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of LISP language, dies aged 84

  The artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the heart of this field of study.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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 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 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

• 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.

• October 26, 2006 26 Oct'06

  IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people

  For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell – there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward