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• October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

  Draft Data Communications Bill a security risk, says Jimmy Wales

  The UK’s Draft Data Communications Bill will be useless and quite dangerous, says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  CERN sees surge in job applicants after turning to social media

  CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has seen a surge in job applicants for hard-to-fill vacancies, after using social media to recruit

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Lenovo swipes top spot from HP

  Lenovo has become the world's top supplier of PCs according to the latest market data from Gartner, as HP sees a 16.4% decline

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Job prospects improving for IT graduates, says HECSU report

  Job prospects for IT graduates have improved for the first time during the recession, says the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU)

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  RSA Europe: Cloud key to future information security, says Qualys

  Cloud computing is an opportunity information security professionals should not miss, says Philippe Courtot, CEO of security firm Qualys

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Shell plans to save 100s of millions with 'semantic' search

  Royal Dutch Shell aims to cut training time for engineers with technology to identify and deliver information from databases, blogs and social media

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Huawei kicks off £1.3bn investment with new headquarters

  Chinese networking company Huawei to take 140,000ft² in Reading as part of its £1bn investment into its UK business over the next five years

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  CIOs to ditch BlackBerry for iPhone by 2017

  A survey from Virgin Media Business shows most CIOs intend to substitute BlackBerrys in the enterprise with the Apple iPhone

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  RSA Europe: Free cloud security readiness tool from Microsoft

  Microsoft has announced a free tool for organisations to assess their security readiness for cloud computing.

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  The latest tech preserving Bletchley Park's past

  Bletchley Park is embracing a range of modern technologies in order to boost visitor numbers, Iain Standen, CEO, tells Computer Weekly

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Case study: Syngenta multi-sourcing key to business growth

  Agri-business giant Syngenta has put multi-sourced IT at the heart of its ambitious plan to double its revenues in the next 8 years

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Case study: Old Mutual’s mutually beneficial multi-sourcing model

  Old Mutual has been able to get more out of its IT suppliers, increase IT effectiveness and hit cost-cutting targets through a mutually beneficial sourcing strategy

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Three million employees lose corporate mobile data

  Survey highlights security and privacy flaws as one in eight UK employees admit to losing corporate data on mobile devices

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  VMware tools up for software-defined datacentres

  At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware addressed how it would tackle greater IT complexity through management and automation

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Cyber crime costs UK organisations £2.1m a year

  Ponemon Institute's 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime Study estimates cyber crime costs UK organisations an average of £2.1m a year each

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Swedish government sites targeted by Anonymous

  The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday after being targeted by hacktivist collective Anonymous

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Microsoft encryption key deadline approaching

  Any organisations that have not yet replaced outdated security certificates will have to act quickly to meet the Microsoft deadline

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  China’s Huawei and ZTE a security threat, says US committee

  China’s leading technology firms pose a threat to national security, warns a US Congressional committee

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Cisco acquires vCider

  Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to boost its cloud strategy and SDN capabilities

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Cisco appoints two new presidents

  The appointment of new executives raises further questions as to when Cisco’s long-serving CEO, John Chambers, will step down

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Samsung promises profit despite Apple patent battle

  Samsung claims its profits will almost double this quarter, despite its high-profile court case with Apple over iPhone and Galaxy S3 patents

• October 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Google’s Motorola job cuts to cost $300m

  Google will take a further blow of $90m for ‘charges related to facility and market exits’ following its acquisition of Motorola Mobility

• October 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Edinburgh Airport outsources IT infrastructure

  Edinburgh Airport’s new owner plans to grow the business, with a multi-million pound IT outsourcing deal the first of many investments

• October 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Meg Whitman unveils HP turnaround plan

  HP CEO Meg Whitman has unveiled a five-year plan for the troubled enterprise, admitting the turnaround would take longer than expected

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  Indian IT giant set to win Home Office contract

  Indian IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services is being awarded a contract to support the government’s Disclosure and Barring Service.

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  Case study: How WorldPay built its IT from scratch after RBS split

  Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own since it was sold in 2010

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  HP revamps portfolio for software-defined networking

  Supplier claims additions will bring capabilities of software-defined networking to infrastructure, control software and application layers

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  UKtech50 2012: Who are the most influential people in UK IT?

  Computer Weekly is this week launching the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Rolls-Royce signs outsourcing deal with HP

  Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications, as part of the company’s multi-vendor IT strategy.

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Condor Ferries moves business applications into co-location datacentre

  Condor Ferries has outsourced its business intelligence and collaboration services to a co-location datacentre

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Businesses to face tougher penalties for data breaches

  Businesses will face tougher penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  Adobe makes collaboration and reuse a priority for PDF documents

  Adobe is aiming to make document collaboration more straightforward with the latest version of its PDF software

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  Internships help graduates land better paid jobs, study finds

  Graduates with internships command a starting salary of £1,500 more than those who choose to go straight into full-time employment, a survey reveals

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  London gets another finance technology hub

  Canary Wharf Group is opening a centre for start-ups to work on financial services technology and services early next year

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  O2 to expand BYOD scheme

  Mobile phone group O2 is to introduce its bring-your-own-device scheme to operations in Europe and South America, following successful UK roll-out

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Phishing attacks cast wider nets in businesses

  Phishing attacks are moving from targeting a few key employees to much wider groups, says security awareness training company PhishMe

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  New processor designs boost graphics to speed up Windows

  New x86 processors will provide the horsepower for next-generation desktop applications

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Buro Happold adopts Polycom video conferencing

  Engineering firm Buro Happold cut costs and travel time with video conferencing facilities using Polycom RMXs and Microsoft Lync

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  ICO publishes cloud data guidelines

  The ICO has published new guidelines that underline businesses’ sole responsibility for the protection of data

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  Information security: Technical skills highest in demand

  Salaries for most information security professionals are continuing to trend upward as demand increases, particularly for technical skills.

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  Cisco buys Wi-Fi data specialist ThinkSmart

  Cisco has confirmed it is to buy location analytics technology company ThinkSmart for its wireless networking division, for an undisclosed sum

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  UK ranks only eighth in world internet freedoms

  The UK has fewer internet freedoms than seven other countries, including Estonia and the Philippines a report has revealed

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Research reveals mobile engagement investment

  Businesses are spending millions on engaging customers with their mobile phones in a trend set to grow over the next three years

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Move to cloud still all about security for UK firms, survey shows

  Security and data privacy are still the top concerns for UK businesses adopting cloud-based services, research shows

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Samsung faces call for Galaxy S3 security update

  Samsung is facing calls to issue a security update for the Galaxy S3 smartphone to address a serious vulnerability

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  How agile is Universal Credit?

  The DWP claims the IT for its flagship Universal Credit project is developed using agile principles. But how agile is a seven-year £2.2bn project?

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  BYOD: IT must tackle printer security

  With more staff bringing their own devices to work, IT needs to rethink its printing and scanning policies

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Mid-market companies are outsourcing more

  Mid-sized companies are increasing their outsourcing at a faster rate than large enterprises and using a more diverse range of suppliers

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Remote working cuts employee desk space

  As the trend for working remotely grows, a Citrix survey claims it will erode the need for desk space in business premises

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Adobe unveils Edge tools for mobile development

  Adobe has unveiled a new platform, dubbed Edge, to offer web developers an alternative to programming in Flash

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Gartner: Businesses need to prepare now for HTML5

  Businesses have been urged to prepare for the arrival of HTML5, the technology that underpins the next generation of the web

• September 24, 2012 24 Sep'12

  Microsoft urges business to update IE security

  Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle patch for the latest zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects versions IE6 to IE9

• September 24, 2012 24 Sep'12

  Gartner: Stick with Windows 7 migration, Windows 8 is too risky

  Businesses migrating from Windows XP should upgrade to Windows 7 rather than risk deploying Windows 8, says analyst organisation Gartner

• September 24, 2012 24 Sep'12

  Accenture opens finance technology lab in London

  Banks and investors have joined forces with outsourcing giant Accenture to help start-ups develop technology for the financial services sector

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Buckinghamshire County Council awards PSN contract

  Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) has signed a four-year deal with Updata for a public services network worth up to £100m

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Businesses fail to address consumerisation security risks

  UK businesses are failing to protect themselves against the risks posed by staff using their own devices for work, shows a study from Equanet

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Microsoft wins third German patent victory over Google Motorola technology

  Microsoft has won a third victory in Germany over Google's Motorola unit in the ongoing patent wars between the two companies

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Apple admits iPhone 5 Maps app needs fixing

  In an email to an Australian iPhone 5 user, Apple conceded the data for its iOS Maps app – intended to replace Google Maps – need improving

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Investec banks on policy to make social media work

  Investment bank Investec sees social media as part of the insider threat to information security, but has policies and technologies to make it work

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Alzheimer's UK slams Salesforce for lack of EU datacentre

  The Alzheimer's Society claims government won’t sign off a plan to use Salesforce because it still has not built a European Union (EU) datacentre

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Dangerous hackers come closer to home, warns Trend Micro

  Cyber criminals from eastern Europe pose just as big a threat as their more high-profile Asian rivals, says security firm Trend Micro

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Microsoft to release emergency patch for IE

  Microsoft has released further information on a patch for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects versions IE6 to IE9

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Salesforce launches Marketing Cloud BI tool for social enterprise

  Public cloud provider Salesforce launches its Marketing Cloud business intelligence (BI) tool to promote cloud in companies' campaign strategies

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Arrogant firms hoodwink customers on data breaches

  Customers are having the wool pulled over their eyes by organisations that fail to report data breaches, says document management firm Simplexo

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Dell SecureWorks uncovers cyber espionage targeting energy firms

  Security researchers have discovered a new cyber espionage campaign targeting several large companies, including two in the energy sector

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Dell targets enterprise with Windows 8 tablets and laptops

  Dell has launched a Windows 8 tablet it claims will tackle IT consumerisation in business

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Thomas Cook signs hosting deal with SME CatN

  Thomas Cook online has signed a seven-figure deal with SME cloud provider CatN to host its e-commerce site

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Gartner Security and Risk Summit 2012: Strategic planning key to survival

  Strategic planning is the only option if risk and security leaders want to succeed in a rapidly changing world, says Gartner

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  GCHQ challenges UK amateurs to defend government from cyber attacks

  GCHQ's national Cyber Security Challenge competition tests the ability of amateur cyber defenders to protect a simulated government IT system

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  NHS Trust uses Accenture for system integration

  Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with Accenture giving doctors in the region access to over a million patient records

• September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

  White House deputy CTO praises NHS open-data strategy

  The deputy CTO of the White House, Chris Vein, is working with the NHS to pass on experiences of making data more open in the public sector

• September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

  Microsoft updates Office 365 pricing

  Microsoft offers 25GB storage and support for multiple devices to tempt users to its cloud-based Office 365 suite

• September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

  CertiVox enables Outlook encryption

  Security firm CertiVox has launched PrivateSky for Outlook that enables users to encrypt messages and large files up to 5GB

• September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

  RSA Europe 2012 to focus on big data

  Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month

• September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

  Microsoft investigates IE zero-day flaw

  Microsoft says it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Cloud, mobile computing and virtualisation increase datacentre complexity

  Cloud computing, virtualisation, mobile computing and a growing number of business-critical applications and data is increasing datacentre complexity

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  IT security awareness needs to be company-wide, says (ISC)²

  Information security awareness needs to be more robust, started as early as possible, continually reinforced and organisation-wide, says Julie Peeler, director, (ISC)² Foundation

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Open source key to business success, claims policy advisor

  Companies must adopt open source systems to stay competitive, according to a report from policy advisor Jim Norton

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Intel lends a hand eliminating passwords

  Intel is working on palm-scanning technology to eliminate weak password-based user authentication

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  Intel makes breakthrough on digital radio chips

  After 10 years of research, Intel Labs finally reveals fully digital radio transceivers that fit on 32nm system-on-chips (SoCs)

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  Cloud computing: Could it cost more?

  Cloud computing is meant to cut costs, but some organisations are reporting increased cost instead. How is this possible?

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2012 for cross-platform development

  Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  MDM is not security, warns mobile security expert Eric Green

  Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, says US security expert Eric Green from Mobile Active Defense Partners

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  CIO interview: Simon Moorhead, Bank of England

  Simon Moorhead began his career as Bank of England CIO with a baptism of fire, having started two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  Few firms test security of mobile apps, survey shows

  Organisations are struggling to manage the challenges of the mobile era, with less than a third formally testing their mobile applications

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Cut network complexity with Ethernet fabrics and SDN, says Brocade

  Brocade says abstraction layers, such as Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networking (SDN), can eliminate complexity from the network

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Two UK students chosen for (ISC)² IT security scholarships

  Students at UK universities are among the recipients of the 2011 and 2012 Information Security Scholarships from (ISC)²

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Big business not learning from cyber attacks, says researcher

  Many big companies are failing to learn from information security incidents, says malware analysis firm Solutionary

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  AT&T takes APTs seriously

  APTs are real and all companies should be taking them seriously, says telecommunications company AT&T

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Zurich Insurance extends application outsourcing deal with CSC

  Zurich Insurance has extended an IT application outsourcing contract with CSC, which could stretch the relationship to 19 years.

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cable pledges support to key areas of industry

  The government is refocusing its industrial policy to support key sectors of the economy such as IT, business secretary Vince Cable has announced.

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  New malware age demands new security approach, says threat researcher

  We are entering a new age of cyber threats and must change our approach to cyber defence, according to ICSA Labs

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  CISOs key to transition to cloud, says (ISC)2

  CISOs have an important role in moving their organisations to a cloud computing environment, says professional certification body (ISC)2

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Skills shortage means no unemployment in IT security, says (ISC)2

  Zero unemployment in IT security shows a huge shortage of skills in the profession, says Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cloud drives outsourcing take-up

  The appetite for outsourcing among IT professionals is growing due to the uptake of cloud services and infrastructure-on-demand, says research.

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Is the consumerisation of IT beneficial to anyone?

  Employees' personal devices are being used in business every day, and that is posing new challenges for IT departments

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  VC tech investment at 10-year high

  Venture capital technology investments have reached a 10-year high, according to research from finance firm Ascendant

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cabinet Office blacklists Fujitsu from government IT contract tenders

  The Cabinet Office has banned Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for public sector IT contracts as they constitute too high a risk

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  UK mobile operators back down on 4G legal action

  UK mobile operators have agreed to cooperate on getting UK 4G launched, rather than take legal action against Ofcom, the Financial Times has reported

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Gartner: Prepare for context-aware security

  Cloud computing, IT consumerisation and the evolving threat landscape are forcing IT departments to rethink security