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• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Google battles BT in patent row

  Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Grant Thornton uses Huddle for business support programme

  Grant Thornton is using Huddle to share information and content as part of the £200m government-backed GrowthAccelerator

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Twitter resets a quarter of a million accounts after hacker attack

  Twitter has reset the passwords of 250,000 accounts after detecting and shutting down a hacker attack last week.

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Amazon sales soar in 2012

  Amazon sales rose 27% to $61bn (£39bn) in its 2012 results and 22% in its 2012 fourth quarter revenues to $21.27bn, compared with 2011

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  GDS must not become an outlier, warns Martha Lane Fox

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) must not remain an outlier to the way the public sector delivers online services, says Martha Lane Fox

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  Interview: Alan Clark, chairman, OpenStack Foundation

  Alan Clark, chairman of the board of the OpenStack Foundation, talks to Computer Weekly about the future of cloud and the role of open source

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Misuse of social media could wreak havoc, warns World Economic Forum

  The rapid spread of false information through social media poses a growing threat to business and society, the World Economic Forum has warned

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  VoIP awareness up but user numbers remain low

  A report from Ofcom claims four in five consumers know what voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is, but just 29% use the technology

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Morrisons sees poor sales due to lack of online presence

  Supermarket chain Morrisons posted “disappointing” sales over the Christmas break, due to the retailer’s lack of online presence.

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  Executive brings own software which is adopted by business

  Rochdale Development agency (RDA) has started using cloud based Huddle collaboration software after a development officer started using it at work.

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Ofcom proposes early exit to combat price rises

  Regulator Ofcom says users should be able to leave mobile, broadband and landline contracts without charge if their provider ups the price

• December 24, 2012 24 Dec'12

  Facebook pays £2.6m tax on £840m profit

  The social networking giant faces criticism for paying minimal tax by pushing all of its operations outside of the US through Ireland

• December 19, 2012 19 Dec'12

  Unilever ramps up social networking for recruitment

  Unilever has agreed a five-year HR BPO contract with Accenture that will expand the manufacturer’s recruitment activity into social networking

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Poor design hampers gamification in the enterprise, says Gartner

  By 2014, 80% of current gamified applications will fail to meet business objectives, primarily because of poor design, according to Gartner

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  Competing firms jockey for position in mobile payments gold rush

  While mobile payments is still in its infancy, the promise of the rewards is substantial and competition for market dominance is gathering pace

• November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  Cloud computing IT outsourcing contracts triple

  Global IT outsourcing deals with a cloud computing element have tripled in number since 2010, according to Information Services Group (ISG)

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  WiFox claims 700% boost in Wi-Fi performance

  New software created by researchers at North Carolina State University claims to boost performance of Wi-Fi by up to 700%

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Birmingham Metropolitan College cuts IT procurement time and cost

  Birmingham Metropolitan College uses cloud-based procurement to reduce the cost and time it takes to buy IT equipment

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  First departmental sites move to Gov.uk

  Two government departments have migrated onto the Gov.uk site, as part of the first moves to bring all departmental information under a single domain.

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  Twitter apologises for unnecessary hacking warnings

  Twitter has apologised after telling members their accounts had been hacked and forcing them to reset their passwords

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  Universal Credit programme director Malcolm Whitehouse steps down

  Malcolm Whitehouse, programme director for the government's £2.2bn Universal Credit project, has stepped down

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  ACPO use online crime reporting company

  The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and charity Crimestoppers is using online self-reporting platform Facewatch, designed to reduce low-level crime.

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  Argos to close stores in move to digital

  Argos is to cut up to 75 stores in a move to reposition itself from a catalogue-led business to a digital retailer

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games

  As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  Cyber attacks launched at London 2012 Olympic Games every day

  The IT supporting the London 2012 Olympics was hit by cyber attacks every day during the Games, says London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell

• October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) launches Gov.uk website

  Gov.uk is intended to become a single domain for online public services replacing hundreds of departmental sites

• October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Frank Modruson, Accenture

  Accenture’s CIO Frank Modruson on providing IT to 250,000 people who think they could do your job and why video is the next big thing

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services

  Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  UK needs more ambition for fibre broadband strategy

  With less than 1% of UK households served with fibre-to-the-home broadband, the FTTH Council calls on the government to be more ambitious with its schemes

• 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 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Skype launches customer Wi-Fi service

  The video calling company teams with Wicoms to offer a service for businesses wanting to provide free Wi-Fi to their customers

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Toyota uses Microsoft for global communications

  Toyota Motor Corporation is globally deploying Microsoft software through a mix of cloud and on-premise software for its 200,000 staff

• 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 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  IPv4 address pool almost dry

  The five Internet Registries now have just 16.8 millions IPv4 addresses left

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  GOV.UK to replace Directgov in October

  Government information services website Directgov is to be replaced by GOV.UK from 17 October

• September 13, 2012 13 Sep'12

  Citrix acquires Beetil to expand cloud capabilities

  Citrix has bought cloud-based service desk technology provider Beetil to expand its capabilities of its GoToAssist support product line

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Liverpool FC moves to the cloud with Amazon Web Services

  Liverpool FC has migrated its website to a public cloud using Amazon Web Services

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Ten killer questions for choosing an HR IT system

  Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) chose a cloud-based HR system, to manage its 3,700 disparate global staff, on the basis of 10 killer questions

• September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12

  Interview: Channel 4 CIO on the IT behind the broadcasting of the Paralympic Games

  The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, and gave the IT team an equally complex project

• September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12

  UK cookie law compliance mixed, study finds

  Three months after the enforcement of the cookie law, only 12% of UK websites have prominent privacy notices and robust cookie controls, a study shows

• September 06, 2012 06 Sep'12

  Interview: Dave Scammell, CEO of Sohonet

  We speak to the head of Sohonet, a service provider built for the film and media industry in the centre of London

• September 05, 2012 05 Sep'12

  Digital technologies to spark major shake-up of IT suppliers, says report

  CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash

• August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

  UK partners pressure Adobe to keep Flash Player on Android store

  Adobe admits it has buckled under pressure from UK partners, such as the BBC, to keep Flash Player on the Google Play Store

• August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

  Enterprise wireless LAN sales jump 26% in Q2 2012

  Q2 figures show businesses are investing in wireless networks despite the economic downturn, according to analyst organisation Dell’Oro

• August 30, 2012 30 Aug'12

  Lord’s Cricket Ground gets Wi-Fi from The Cloud

  London’s home of cricket will give spectators the chance to get online for free after signing a five year deal with the BSkyB Wi-Fi provider

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  GDS rolls out Drupal

  The Government Digital Service is rolling out open source content management system Drupal.

• August 23, 2012 23 Aug'12

  Facebook gets green light for Instagram acquisition

  The US Federal Trade Commission has approved the social network's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram

• August 21, 2012 21 Aug'12

  At least 9 out of 10 top mobile apps hacked, study shows

  An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed

• August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

  Hunt: Ofcom 'beset by threats of litigations'

  Culture secretary calls on mobile operators to call off the lawyers and focus on the future of 4G to help government achieve broadband targets by 2015