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• 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

• August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

  Specsavers upgrades IT service management

  Specsavers moved to an IT service management system from BMC Software when it wanted to become ITIL-compliant

• August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

  Good data protection can be cheap and easy, says ICO

  The ICO says charities and third sector organisations stand to benefit most from a data protection check-up.

• August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

  Facebook to launch virtual bingo in UK

  Facebook is to launch a virtual bingo game in the UK that offers cash prizes

• August 07, 2012 07 Aug'12

  Smartphones drive Tesco's UK virtual supermarket

  Tesco has launched a smartphone-friendly virtual supermarket online shopping system at Gatwick airport.

• August 06, 2012 06 Aug'12

  LinkedIn data breach costs more than $1m

  LinkedIn says the forensic investigation and other recovery costs of the data breach in June could have topped $1m.

• August 01, 2012 01 Aug'12

  Microsoft to revamp and rename Hotmail

  Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service, which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service

• July 31, 2012 31 Jul'12

  Lords Select Committee slams government broadband plans

  A report from the Communications Committee claims the government is ‘preoccupied with speed’ rather than focusing on the roll-out of broadband to more areas

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  CW500: The technology behind the BBC's Olympics coverage

  BBC CTO John Linwood told Computer Weekly’s CW500 Club about the “terrifying” challenge of providing live coverage of all events at the Olympics

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Twitter users targeted by Blackhole malware

  Twitter users are being targeted by tweets containing malicious links that claim recipients are pictured in an online photo

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Twitter apologises for outage ahead of Olympics

  Twitter has apologised for the two-hour micro-blogging service outage on the day before the official opening of the London 2012 Olympics

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Facebook share price falls after Q2 results announcement

  Facebook shares fell 11% in after-hours trading on the NYSE to a record low of $23.94 after announcing second quarter financial results

• July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

  SQL injection attacks rise sharply in second quarter of 2012

  SQL injection (SQLi) attacks were up 69% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, warns cloud hosting firm FireHost

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Can IT investment in schools keep pace with change?

  As more schools join the academy programnme, is the next generation getting access to the right technology crucial to the digital world?

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Security researchers join forces to bring down Grum botnet

  Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world’s third-largest botnet of hijacked computers

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  CSC wins deal to transform datacentres for engineer firm Alstom

  Engineering company Alstom has outsourced the transformation of its datacentres to systems integrator CSC in a five-year contract

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  Steve Ballmer launches cloud-based Microsoft Office 2013

  Steve Ballmer releases a preview of Microsoft's cloud-based Office 2013 suite of productivity tools, which he says works best on Windows 8 OS

• July 12, 2012 12 Jul'12

  Metropolitan Police gears up to analyse smartphone evidence

  The Metropolitan Police plans to build a computer system to analyse photo and video evidence gathered from the public using mobile phones

• July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  Retailers without multichannel risk losing business

  Retailers without a multichannel offering could start haemorrhaging cash as customers' expectations change, according to research

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  Facebook and Yahoo end patent battle with advertising partnership deal

  Yahoo announces end to four-month Facebook patent battle with advertising partnership after Ross Levinsohn takes Yahoo CEO job

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  Virus could cut 20,000 UK computers from web on Monday, FBI warns

  The DNS Changer virus could cause 20,000 computers in the UK – of 350,000 worldwide - to lose web access on 9 July, the FBI has warned

• June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  Web surfers keen to compromise own privacy, study finds

  Web users voluntarily compromise their own privacy by typing more personal information into online forms than is needed, a study has found

• June 22, 2012 22 Jun'12

  Software glitch to blame for RBS and NatWest online banking outages

  The software glitch behind the outages at RBS and NatWest banks could carry on through the weekend, preventing cutomers from buying online

• June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12

  RBS and NatWest online services unavailable

  Some Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest Bank customers cannot access online services as the banking group experiences a computer problem.

• June 19, 2012 19 Jun'12

  The mobile side of net neutrality

  It isn’t just ISPs managing website traffic to improve access to some destinations and limit it for others – the mobile operators are at it too

• June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12

  Ofcom announces leased line consultation

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom proposes regulation for 1Gbps connections but takes lighter approach to BT wholesale broadband pricing in London

• June 15, 2012 15 Jun'12

  Cumbria votes against broadband proposals from BT and Fujitsu

  Cumbria County Council turns down bids from BT and Fujitsu, claiming they don’t fulfil the full requirements for superfast broadband in the area

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  The cloud will move supercomputers into the mainstream

  Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs into mainstream business, says Amazon

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  ICANN reveals bidders for top level domain names

  The internet organisation names the companies bidding for 1,930 new domains for websites

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  Deloitte opts for IT service management in the cloud

  Business consultancy Deloitte is using cloud-based IT service management to support 13,000 employees in the UK and Switzerland

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  Cloud a game-changer for SMEs, says the Open Group

  Cloud computing has huge potential for SMEs, but they need to look before they leap, says IT consortium the Open Group

• June 12, 2012 12 Jun'12

  2012: Will this be the year TPM finally comes of age?

  Will 2012 be the year that TPM finally delivers on its potential to provide a hardware-based "root of trust" for enterprise information security?

• June 08, 2012 08 Jun'12

  eHarmony, Last.fm join LinkedIn with password leaks

  Online dating site eHarmony and Last.fm have joined LinkedIn with password leaks, as hackers focus on social networks

• June 07, 2012 07 Jun'12

  Nasdaq offers $40m compensation for Facebook confusion

  The Nasdaq stock exchange in New York is to pay $40m compensation for technical problems that caused confusion on Facebook's first day of share trading