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April 18, 2012 18 Apr'12
Digital TV switch over finally frees up UK airwaves for 4G

The digital TV switch over is almost complete, paving the way to UK migration to 4G mobile networking
April 18, 2012 18 Apr'12
Infosec 2012: Poor mobile security exposes UK firms to massive risk, study shows

UK organisations are running IT security risks by failing to respond to the trend of employees using their own mobile devices for work
April 16, 2012 16 Apr'12
Infosec 2012: BYOD great for infosec profession, says IT head

Supporting a bring your own device (BYOD) programme is relatively simple, says the head of IT infrastructure and support services at the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organisation.
April 12, 2012 12 Apr'12
BlackBerry most secure mobile platform, research finds

BlackBerry leads the pack when it comes to secure mobile platforms, according to a study by security firm Trend Micro, Bloor Research and Altimeter Group.

April 10, 2012 10 Apr'12
CIO interview: David Jones, CIO, Crown Prosecution Service

CPS CIO David Jones is leading a comprehensive technology revamp to modernise operations across the entire criminal justice system.
March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12
EU to begin new cuts to mobile roaming costs from July

New rules agreed by the European Parliament will force mobile firms to lower the prices of making a call or downloading data abroad by July 2012.
March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12
Will 2012 be the year of the first significant smartphone attacks?

Security researchers have warned of mobile malware for years but will 2012 prove the year of the first significant attacks on smartphones?
March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12
London Overground passengers get free Wi-Fi

London Overground has announced passengers will get an hour's free internet access with Wi-Fi hotspots at all 56 stations on the network
March 21, 2012 21 Mar'12
Budget 2012: the highlights for the IT industry

Chancellor George Osborne has laid out his ambitions to make Britain “the technology hub of Europe”.
March 15, 2012 15 Mar'12
London Underground Wi-Fi connectivity due within months

London Underground passengers will be able to tap into Wi-Fi networks at 80 of 217 stations within a few months and 127 stations by the end of the year.

March 14, 2012 14 Mar'12
NHS trust to use iPads for real-time access to patient records

An NHS trust in the Midlands is planning to equip medical staff and community nurses with iPads to give real-time access to patient records on the move.
March 13, 2012 13 Mar'12
Ofcom paves the way to Everything Everywhere UK 4G roll-out

Ofcom is preparing to loosen restrictions on radio spectrum licensing that could lead to an early 4G rol-out later this year.
March 12, 2012 12 Mar'12
CIOs juggle with security and budget as employees demand mobile data access

CIOs and IT directors are being asked to cut budgets while trying to secure personal mobile devices
March 07, 2012 07 Mar'12
Telefonica aims to boost European IT talent with 750 new graduates

Telefonica is creating 750 new graduate jobs as part of a project to grow entrepreneurial talent in Europe.
March 06, 2012 06 Mar'12
Laptop remains top mobile enterprise device, study reveals

The laptop remains the most popular mobile device for work despite an influx of smartphones and tablets, a study has revealed
March 01, 2012 01 Mar'12
RSA 2012: IT security experts urge enterprises to ban smartphone BYOD schemes

Enterprises should ban employees from using their own smartphones for work, a panel of IT security practitioners told the RSA Conference 2012
February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12
RSA 2012: RSA takes market-leader position seriously, says Heiser

RSA takes its market-leader position seriously to pull together the IT security industry, says Tom Heiser, president of RSA.
February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12
Microsoft launches Windows 8 OS at Mobile World Congress 2012

Microsoft will use Mobile World Congress 2012 to launch the public test version of Windows 8 OS
February 28, 2012 28 Feb'12
RSA 2012: RSA issues security industry call to arms

Security supplier RSA urges the security industry to collaborate to win the war against cyber threats to information security
February 28, 2012 28 Feb'12
Mobile technology training in demand

A massive 81% of IT professionals are planning to bolster their skills in mobile computing as 84% see this as an area of growth in the market.
February 27, 2012 27 Feb'12
SAP reacts to BYOD trend with management tool

SAP has highlighted its ability to help customers meet the bring your own device (BYOD) challenges
February 23, 2012 23 Feb'12
Mobile strategy needs to catch up with adoption

Most businesses see mobility as a key driver of agility, effectiveness and efficiency, but have yet to formulate long-term strategic plans.
February 22, 2012 22 Feb'12
SAP and Samsung team up to push enterprise Android

SAP and Samsung are reported to be joining forces to make mobile devices running Google's Android operating system safer to use in the corporate environment.
February 21, 2012 21 Feb'12
Mobile malware on the rise

New malware releases reduced during the final three months of 2011, but were higher than expected for the year
February 20, 2012 20 Feb'12
Ed Vaizey urged to fight new EU mobile roaming charges

A group comprising a UK mobile operator, consumer groups, trade bodies and industry associations is calling on UK communications minister Ed Vaizey to fight planned EU mobile roaming charges.
February 16, 2012 16 Feb'12
Cisco predicts machine-to-machine traffic will increase 22-fold

Internet traffic generated by machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is set to increase 22-fold between 2011 and 2016
February 15, 2012 15 Feb'12
Smartphone sales hit high on Apple wave

A massive 149 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the final three months of 2011 which was almost 50% more than last year.
February 15, 2012 15 Feb'12
Competition Appeals Tribunal demands steeper cuts for landline to mobile call costs

The Competition Appeals Tribunal has called for cuts in costs for connecting landline calls to mobile phones to be phased in faster
February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12
Vodafone considers Cable & Wireless acquisition

Vodafone admits it is considering buying Cable and Wireless Worldwide (CWW) following speculations about a possible £700m acquisition
February 07, 2012 07 Feb'12
Ofcom proposes phone and broadband price cuts by BT Openreach

Telecoms regulator Ofcom has told BT’s wholesale division Openreach to reduce the prices charged to ISPs that use BT’s lines.
February 02, 2012 02 Feb'12
Cisco unveils product consolidation plan

Cisco has unveiled details of the product line consolidation it hopes will turn around the company after its struggles with poor financial performance.
February 01, 2012 01 Feb'12
What the beta of Gov.uk means for public services

The beta version of Gov.uk, the single government website, marks the official start of the Government Digital Service’s ambitious remit.
February 01, 2012 01 Feb'12
CW500: CIO themes for 2012

Battening down the hatches is a sure route to failure in the recession, IT leaders heard at January's CW500 Club.
January 31, 2012 31 Jan'12
Nottinghamshire Police buck mobile failure trend

Nottinghamshire Police has saved over £1m and increased front-line policing since launching a programme to give police officers mobile devices to connect with back-office systems.
January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12
Nokia smartphones bomb as sales drop 27%

Nokia’s latest results for Q4 2011 show just how far the company that was once the standard choice for almost every corporate mobile user has fallen.
January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12
Police fail to see benefits of £80m mobile roll-out

The £80m roll-out of mobile devices across police forces has failed to achieve value for money with only ‘a basic level of benefits’.
January 26, 2012 26 Jan'12
O2 apologises for security breach

Mobile operator O2 has apologised for a technical problem that resulted in subscribers' phone numbers being included in header information sent to websites they visited.
January 25, 2012 25 Jan'12
O2 investigates security risk allegation

UK mobile operator O2 is investigating claims it is leaking customer data by sending their phone numbers to websites they visit
January 24, 2012 24 Jan'12
Video: Portsmouth Fire and Rescue pilot wireless rescue dog

Wireless firm Wood & Douglas has debuted wireless comms technology for rescue dogs at the Mobile World Congress preview
January 24, 2012 24 Jan'12
Wireless internet on the Tube by 2012 Olympics

Platforms at London Underground stations will have wireless internet access by the time the London Olympics starts in the summer this year.
January 16, 2012 16 Jan'12
NHS Trust saves £1m a year with text reminder service

Barts Hospital and the London Hospital NHS Trust have saved nearly £1m a year with an automatic appointment reminder text service.
January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12
Virgin Media to double broadband speed by 2013

Virgin Media will double the speed and bandwidth allowance of its broadband service for more than four million customers by mid-2013.
January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12
Google Android overtakes Apple iOS in US and Canada

Google’s Android mobile operating system has overtaken Apple’s iOs for web browsing in the US and Canada, but iOS is still the world leader, latest figures show.
January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12
CIO interview: Myron Hrycyk, chief information officer, Severn Trent

Utility Severn Trent is looking to improve service for staff and customers with increased use of mobile technology and better use of data.
January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12
Google protects Android with even more IBM patents

Google has gained hundreds of patents from IBM as it continues its intellectual property spending spree.
December 30, 2011 30 Dec'11
Top 10 mobile and networking stories of 2011

Mobile technology has truly taken off in 2011. We look back at some of the key developments in mobile and networking over the past year.
December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11
Top 10 retail IT stories of 2011

Retail IT has been a fast-moving part of the technology scene in 2011 - we look back at the highlights of the year.
December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11
RIM rebuffs Amazon and Microsoft approaches

Amazon considered buying troubled smartphone maker, Research in Motion, according to a report on Reuters.
December 19, 2011 19 Dec'11
Next-generation mobile networks set for global defragmentation

Next-generation mobile internet is set to stall, with a lack of global standardisation due to online spectrum auctions and licence renewals, the GSMA has warned.
December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11
CIOs believe cloud, SaaS, consumerisation and mobility increase risk

Business models such as cloud computing and trends such as the consumerisation of IT, social media and mobility are exposing performance blind spots in IT management, a CIO survey has revealed.
December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11
Government opens up smartphone provider market

The government is opening up the number of accredited smartphone providers for public sector staff, with Apple and Android on the agenda.
December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11
News International provides genius bar for staff

News International is creating an Apple-like genius bar to support users who bring their own devices to work.
December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11
Virgin Media plans mini-masts to overcome Wi-Fi overload

Virgin Media plans to use mini-masts in the home to overcome anticipated Wi-Fi signal overloads as an increasing number of mobile and other devices connect to the internet.
December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11
Senator Al Franken gives Carrier IQ two weeks to explain phone snooping

US senator Al Franken has given mobile phone diagnostic software maker Carrier IQ two weeks to explain allegations that its software logs keystrokes on the devices on which it is installed.
November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11
Staff must use technology not transport during Olympics

The government is urging businesses in London to enable flexible working during the Olympics to prevent the capital’s transport system grinding to a standstill.
November 15, 2011 15 Nov'11
Android doubles its smartphone market share

Google’s Android has doubled its smartphone market share since last year, according to Gartner research.
November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11
O2 to trial full customer control of personal data

Mobile operator O2 is offering customers full control over how personal information can be used by the company as part of a trial by parent Telefónica.
November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11
MP calls for government to quadruple broadband investment to £2bn

Rory Stewart, MP has called for the Treasury to quadruple its investment in superfast broadband to £2.1bn.
November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11
Everything Everywhere to reinvest £450m windfall

Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere is to reinvest profits made from the upcoming sale of its 1,800MHz spectrum in the UK's mobile network, following criticism that the sale of a public asset would be diverted to German and French ...
November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11
Nokia launches free Wi-Fi service in London

Nokia has launched a trial of free Wi-Fi in London in partnership with Spectrum Interactive.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
SAP to embrace mobile desktop, big data and consumerisation in 2012

SAP plans to tap into three global trends in the coming year across its offerings for ERP, mobile, in-memory computing and cloud services and software, says Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-chief executive of SAP.
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
US and Canadian subscribers sue RIM over Blackberry service outage

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is facing legal action by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day services outage in mid-October caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure.
May 20, 2011 20 May'11
Mobile malware set to double in 2011, says Kaspersky Lab

Mobile malware is set to at least double that of 2010 based on the number of new malware signatures detected in the first quarter of the year, says Kaspersky Lab.
May 12, 2011 12 May'11
Analysis: Will Android dominance increase IT security threats for business?

The Android Market is forecast to become the world's biggest mobile content platform by August 2011, according to research by mobile application research firm Distimo.
May 11, 2011 11 May'11
IT professionals leave sensitive data on mobile devices unprotected

A survey of IT professionals reveals a worrying trend that leaves large numbers of organisations prime targets for data thieves.
April 26, 2011 26 Apr'11
Mobile is a top threat to business but security is lagging, says Sophos

Mobile devices are one of the biggest security threats and challenges to organisations, says security firm Sophos.
April 05, 2011 05 Apr'11
Targeted cyber attacks set to grow in 2011, says Symantec

Targeted attacks, social networking threats, mobile device security and the use of attack toolkits are top trends to watch in 2011, says IT management firm Symantec.
March 11, 2011 11 Mar'11
Tech companies assess Japanese tsunami damage

The earthquake which hit northern Japan and measured 8.9 on the Richter scale has brought down mobile networks and damaged major semiconductor and chip manufacturers in the region.
March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11
Light MS Patch Tuesday, but mobile security could pile on the pressure

Microsoft is expected to release only three security bulletins in their monthly Patch Tuesday security update on 8 March, according to the latest advance notification.
March 03, 2011 03 Mar'11
What lessons can be learned from the Vodafone UK network outage?

After a burglary caused a Vodafone UK network outage, Jenny Williams assesses the business impact of mobile infrastructure
March 01, 2011 01 Mar'11
User's guide to protecting against Google Android app Trojans

Malware targeting the Android mobile computing platform is increasing, according to the Symantec official blog.
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 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.
January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11
IT managers will have to support up to eight mobile platforms

IT managers will have to support up to eight mobile platforms within their organisations by the end of the year...
November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10
SAP prioritises security and looks to greater cross-industry collaboration

Security is a top priority for SAP, particular as business applications become increasingly on-device and mobile, says co-chief executive Jim Hagemann Snabe.

In...
October 20, 2010 20 Oct'10
Italy is chief source of mobile cyber attacks, says Akamai

Most cyber attacks in the second quarter came from Europe, with Italy the source of most mobile-based attacks, says online content distributor Akamai.

Akamai's...
September 16, 2010 16 Sep'10
Businesses not taking mobile security seriously, says Vodafone

Most businesses are failing to take security on smartphones as seriously as they do on laptops, says Howard Clegg, head of solution sales, Vodafone UK.

"It...
August 13, 2010 13 Aug'10
Businesses not well prepared to protect data on mobile devices

Theft, removal or loss of information and disclosure of private or confidential information are the top information security threats facing organisations, a survey has revealed.
July 30, 2010 30 Jul'10
Black Hat: GSM hacking tools now available

Security researcher Karsten Nohl has unveiled a suite of tools at the Black Hat hacker convention that hackers can use to listen to GSM mobile phone calls.
June 24, 2010 24 Jun'10
NCP targets barriers to enterprise mobility

Concern about the security of public internet access is still preventing many businesses giving mobile access to company data, says secure connection software...
June 15, 2010 15 Jun'10
Business Link Northwest set to encrypt all data

Business Link Northwest has rolled out full disc encryption and media encryption systems to secure confidential data on all its office and mobile computers.
May 07, 2010 07 May'10
ICO in talks with Barclays over weak mobile banking security

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is in talks with Barclays Bank about the security set-up of its mobile banking service.
April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10
Video: Study predicts end of the office, death of the desk

The end of the company office is in sight, as the recession, mobile technology and the emergence of a generation brought up on social networking come together, a major study by Microsoft predicts
April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10
Simple security questions expose details of Barclays' mobile customers

The personal information of millions of people is potentially at risk of exposure on Barclays bank mobile banking site.
April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10
More companies to ‘mobilise’ data

More and more companies will let staff use their own mobiles to send and receive company data because the cost of doing otherwise is too high, says an industry...
April 15, 2010 15 Apr'10
Data protection is a three-part strategy for City of London Police

Safeguarding against the unauthorised copying and transmission of data using mobile devices is a high priority for the City of London Police.
February 26, 2010 26 Feb'10
Privacy considerations for location-based services

Location-aware mobile applications and services are on the increase. With growing reach and appeal, they are no longer just about personal navigation.
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
T-Mobile staff sold customer data

The personal data of thousands of mobile phone users has been sold by staff at one of the UK's major mobile phone firms.
October 14, 2009 14 Oct'09
Cancer all-clear on mobile phones may be based on dodgy data

Mobile phones don't definitely cause cancer, but the research that leads to that conclusion may be flawed, say researchers who have gone through 23 controlled...
October 12, 2009 12 Oct'09
Australia bank eyes three-factor authentication

National Australia Bank has announced it is considering three-factor authentication for internet and mobile phone banking.
June 19, 2009 19 Jun'09
Mobile video driving boom in IP traffic

Mobile data traffic predicted to more or less double each year from 2008 to 2013, increasing 66 times between 2008 and 2013
June 09, 2009 09 Jun'09
T-Mobile investigates hacking claim

T-Mobile USA is investigating a claim that a hacker has broken into its databases and stolen customer and company information.

The claim...
April 27, 2009 27 Apr'09
SMBs failing with mobile device IT security

USB sticks regarded as biggest source of threat as low percentage of smartphones, netbooks and laptops screened
March 18, 2009 18 Mar'09
Police National Computer to be linked to mobile register

The Police National Computer will be linked to the National Mobile Phone Register to help officers find out whether phones have been stolen.
February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09
Mitie cuts costs with Codegate mobile system

Outsourcing firm Mitie is increasing the volume of pest control jobs it can handle by 20% with an end-to-end mobile solution from Codegate. The Codegate...
February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09
Twittering US politician endangers lives in Baghdad

A high ranking member of the US House Intelligence Committee used the Twitter mobile blogging service to reveal his "secret" congressional visit to Iraq.
February 05, 2009 05 Feb'09
Recession, facebook, and mobile media threaten security

Information security at financial services companies is at risk because the recession is distracting and upsetting staff, and new...
December 10, 2008 10 Dec'08
EC commits €55m to protect kids from online abuse

The Safer Internet programme will fight grooming and bullying by making online software and mobile technologies more sophisticated and secure
November 17, 2008 17 Nov'08
F-Secure enhances mobile security offering with remote phone locking

F-Secure has added data protection technology to its mobile security software system to protect information held on stolen smartphones.
November 13, 2008 13 Nov'08
Ministry of Justice fails to find provider for prison mobile phone detection system

The Ministry of Justice has failed to find a suitable bidder for the provision of mobile phone detection equipment in prisons.