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• July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12

  PayPal buys mobile payment firm Card.io

  The online payment company looks to expand its mobile offering with the San Francisco start-up

• June 28, 2012 28 Jun'12

  Microsoft ramps up Windows 8 security for IT consumerisation

  Microsoft is building antivirus and secure, role-based authentication into Windows 8 to make the OS enterprise-ready

• June 14, 2012 14 Jun'12

  BT launches One Voice app to cut roaming costs

  The mobile app allows business travellers to cut costs on international calling by routing calls through their corporate VPN

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  RSPCA mobilises workforce with AMT-SYBEX

  Mobile solution enables RSPCA officers to act faster on reports of animal cruelty from the public

• May 03, 2012 03 May'12

  European copyright ruling good for IT innovation, say lawyers

  The top European court's ruling on copyright is good news for innovation, say lawyers

• April 25, 2012 25 Apr'12

  SAP reports double-digit growth

  SAP has continued where it left off last year with an 11% increase in sales in the first three months of 2012.

• March 14, 2012 14 Mar'12

  Gartner: Rethink organisation structure to boost business

  Businesses must radically rethink how they organise staff and collaborate if they want to make big improvements, according to analyst Gartner

• March 05, 2012 05 Mar'12

  NHS trusts to be freed from CSC contract commitments

  The Department of Health has proposed a deal with CSC to release trusts in the National Programme for IT from their contractual obligations to use software from the troubled supplier.

• 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.

• January 30, 2012 30 Jan'12

  Microsoft puts Blackberry service on Office365

  Businesses running Microsoft Office 365 can now access Exchange Online on their BlackBerry smartphones.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  RIM shareholders support plan to appoint a new chairman

  Shares in Blackberry maker Research In Motion gained 7% on Tuesday in response to news that the company plans to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.

• 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 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal

  Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.

• November 09, 2011 09 Nov'11

  Adobe to change mobile Flash player strategy and axe European jobs

  Adobe plans to abandon its Flash player for mobile browsers and cut 750 jobs across North America and Europe as part of a reorganisation.

• December 07, 2007 07 Dec'07

  EC to use mobile phones to track carbon footprints

  New application allows users to see how their daily choices impact climate change in terms of the major greenhouse gases

• July 31, 2007 31 Jul'07

  Riverbed extends WAFS to laptops

  Steelhead Mobile installs on workstations without an onsite appliance. Users say they'd like to see better integration between the mobile and data center versions of the product.

• October 26, 2006 26 Oct'06

  IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people

  For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell – there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward