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• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  Toyota takes dealer application to the cloud

  Toyota Australia's Divisional Manager for Information Systems explains why he's placed an application in Fujitsu's cloud, instead of a "pure play" public cloud.

• 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 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  UK cloud computing trends: Are IT shops buying in?

  UK cloud computing trends show that IT shops are buying into the technology to complement in-house applications and that security is not the most pressing challenge.

• 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 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 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  New SMB vulnerability identified in Windows XP and Server 2003

  A new SMB vulnerability discovered in Windows could open systems to DoS attacks and remote access. The vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2011-0654, has been rated "critical" and confirmed on Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows XP SP3.

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  Government makes changes to immigration scheme

  The government has announced the details of changes it will make to the Intra Company Transfer (ICT) scheme, which has been criticised for being open to...

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: RSA, EMC and VMWare advise on defending against advanced persistent threats

  Security leaders have outlined ways organisations can better defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs) in a paper published by RSA, the security division of EMC.

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  Optus email rejects shortened URLs

  Optus has adjusted its email security regime to repel incoming emails that use URLs shortened by services like bit.ly or TinyURL.

• February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Overhaul A-levels and improve teaching to boost science and tech student uptake, says Royal Society

  An overhaul of A-levels and better teaching are needed to boost the numbers of young people progressing to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects in higher education, according to an influential new study.

• February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Atos Origin boosts profit despite fall in sales

  IT services company Atos Origin has announced full-year profits of €337m (£283m), a 6.7% year-on-year increase. However, overall sales fell by 3.5%...

• February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Apple adds digital subscription service to app store

  Apple has extended its digital subscription billing service used for Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper to all magazines, newspapers, videos and music on its application store.

• 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 15, 2011 15 Feb'11

  Barclays Bank boosts IT staff and project spending

  Barclays has boosted its technology staff and budget, according to the bank's full-year results released today.

• February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: Cybersecurity leads conference with cloud security keynote

  Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco.

• 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 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Business Software Alliance fines company £24,000 for unlicensed Microsoft software

  Label company System Labelling has been fined £24,800 for using unlicensed Microsoft software.

• February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Dell rolls out services for enterprise mobility

  Dell has introduced a portfolio of services to help businesses manage mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.

• 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 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  Mobile hacker attacks will damage business in 2011

  Businesses cannot afford to ignore mobile hacking attacks as they are proving extremely lucrative over shorter periods, a study of mobile threats has found.

• February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  Enterprise mobile computing spurs change in UK networking trends

  A driving demand for enterprise mobile computing devices and applications is driving a shift toward unified wired and wireless networking in the UK networking industry, according to HP Networking UK chief Barry Bonnett.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  ID card database is destroyed

  The National Identity Register (NIR), which was built to hold the fingerprints and personal details of millions of ID card holders, has been publicly destroyed.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  IT departments are unable to support employee devices

  Security concerns are holding companies back from allowing staff to use their own technology at work.

• 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

  Vodafone rolls out Nexus S smartphone

  Vodafone remains tight-lipped over the availability of Samsung's Nexus S smartphone, which is already available at Carphone warehouse.

• 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 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday outlines five critical vulnerabilities

  Microsoft has released 12 security bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in its monthly security update for February

• 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 08, 2011 08 Feb'11

  Businesses must learn how to defend against cyberattack, says McAfee

  Cybercrime has thrived over the past decade according to recent reports from security firm McAfee, but business can expect even more dramatic change in the next ten years, researchers say.

• February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11

  IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010

  The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum.

• 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 05, 2011 05 Feb'11

  Real-time analytics bring voice calls back in vogue

  By combining the personal touch of voice calls with the real-time analytics of Web applications, a telecoms startup hopes to make chatting on the phone more common, and more profitable.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Barclays offshores back-office and call centre jobs to India

  Barclays is cutting almost three hundred UK back-office jobs and sending the roles to India.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Vodafone protests Egyptian government propaganda on network

  Vodafone has described the Egyptian authorities' use of its network to send pro-government texts as unacceptable.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  University unified communications includes presence…and video…and IM

  As University of Birmingham rolls out its first unified communications solution, it is addressing a whole host of issues from load balancing to cultural change among staff.

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Every IPv4 address is now allocated and could run out within weeks

  It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks

• 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 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Broadband boosts BT profits to £531m

  An early return to positive cash flow at Global Services helped BT to produce earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation 7% higher on sales that fell 3%

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Interxion hits colocation sweet spot and sees market shares soar

  Colocation provider Interxion recently made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange and saw its shares soar 18%; plus more news in brief.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  O2 to apply for e-money licence to support NFC payments

  O2 will apply for an e-money licence this year, signalling its commitment to support contactless payments in the UK in the near future.

• 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.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Yahoo blames Microsoft implementation for Windows Phone 7 data charges

  Yahoo has spoken out after being blamed for excessive data charges experienced by some Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users.

• 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

  Mobile app stores to grow over 1,000% by 2014

  Mobile application store downloads are expected to surge 117% in 2011, growing more than 1,000% by 2014.

  According to the latest figures by research...

• 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.