Data centre hardware
Data centre strategy is an increasingly important focus for IT managers, as enterprises look to cut costs and improve energy efficiency. We examine key data centre hardware trends such as virtualisation, consolidation and systems management to help identify the products that are right for your needs.
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Feature
25 Jul 2024
Kubernetes at 10: The long road to mastery of persistent storage
Jan Safranek of Red Hat saw containers emerge as an exciting new way of deploying applications, but it took several additions to make it the mature enterprise platform it is today Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Jul 2024
Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads
We look at hybrid multicloud storage, making the best of on-premise and multiple cloud application locations, its key benefits, some pitfalls and the technologies to build it with Continue Reading
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News
15 Aug 2011
Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC
The government must bring in changes to better protect personal information, calls the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
09 Aug 2011
Photos: BlackBerry unveils its new smartphone range
BlackBerry has unveiled five new smartphones to combat Apple and HTC's dominance in the smartphone market. Continue Reading
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News
09 Aug 2011
Blackberry to co-operate with police after youths used BBM to organise riots
Research in Motion has said that it will co-operate with the police after it was revealed that London rioters used Blackberry Messenger rather than Twitter to organise looting sprees across the capital, with violence later spreading to Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol. Continue Reading
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News
05 Aug 2011
Case Study: Data encryption at the Salvation Army
The Salvation Army in the UK supports flexible working from home using laptops owned by the charity, but says finding a good way of protecting data was a challenge. Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2011
Amazon closes Android appstore submissions in Germany after Apple lawsuit
Amazon has closed submissions for its Android app store in Germany following a lawsuit from Apple. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Aug 2011
What is big data and how can it be used to gain competitive advantage?
Cliff Saran discovers how big data can deliver big business benefits without excessive IT investment Continue Reading
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News
29 Jul 2011
Apple and Samsung overtake Nokia as worldwide smartphone shipments grow 76%
Nokia's woes continue as Apple and Samsung overtake the Finnish giant to become the largest global smartphone manufacturers, according to analyst figures. Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2011
ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware
Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware... Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2011
KLM deploys RightNow natural language search for mobile website
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled out software-as-a-service provider RightNow's CX Intent Guide on its mobile website. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jul 2011
Automated web application attacks are the top security threat, study reveals
Websites are attacked about 27 times an hour or once every two minutes on average, peaking at 25,000 attacks a minute or seven a second, according to research... Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2011
IDC blames decline in European PC market on weak consumer demand and high inventories
The west European PC market declined 8.9% compared with the same quarter the year before. A shift in interest and budget towards other products contributed to weak consumer demand and slow stock depletion across Western Europe, according to analyst IDC. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2011
Nokia reports £429m loss as smartphone revenues drop 32% in first half of 2011
Nokia has reported operating losses of €487m (£429m) in the first half of 2011, fuelled by a decline in smartphone sales. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2011
Betfair sees 120% increase in mobile customers
The online gambling firm increased sales via mobile applications by 88% as customer mobile use grows. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2011
Unite members at Fujitsu’s Crewe site to strike
Members of the Unite union at Fujitsu's site in Crewe have voted to take strike action over the alleged unfair treatment of a trade union activist. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2011
Oracle Q4 revenues climb 36% but decline in hardware sales drops share price 7.5%
Oracle's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings climbed 36% to $3.2bn and total revenues were up 13% to $10.8bn. But a decline in hardware sales and a forecast of only 10% to 20% growth in licence sales sent Oracle shares down by as much as 7.5% in late trading. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2011
European Commission gives green light to CSC acquisition of beleaguered iSoft
The European Commission (EC) has approved CSC's acquisition of healthcare software maker iSoft. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
20 Jun 2011
Photos: How Team Lotus uses IT to drive its Formula One racing
Norfolk-based Team Lotus believes its IT environment and eight-strong IT team is crucial to climbing the Formula One grid and making its cars race faster. Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Jun 2011
What are the opportunities mCommerce offers?
Throughout 2010, a flurry of announcements from players in the mobile value chain placed the spotlight squarely on the potential of the mCommerce market and highlighted it as a valuable revenue driver in a tough and competitive economic environment, writes Suhail Bhat, policies and initiatives director of the Mobile Entertainment Forum. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jun 2011
Analysts voice doubts over Blackberry Playbook price, app choice and e-mail
As Research in Motion (RIM)'s Blackberry Playbook goes on sale in the UK, analysts remain sceptical of the prospects of RIM's first tablet among business users. Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2011
Citrix ‘buy your own computer’ scheme cuts costs
A pilot scheme introduced by Citrix to enable employees to choose the computing device they use at work has been formalised after successful take-up. Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2011
Tesco launches Groceries Android app with voice searching feature
Tesco has launched a free mobile application for Google's Android operating system (OS) to provide shopping and delivery services. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2011
Visa predicts 20 million contactless payment cards in UK by 2012
Visa Europe expects the number of contactless cards being used in the UK to reach 20 million by the end of 2011. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jun 2011
TfL makes real-time information available for ‘Boris Bikes’ apps
Transport for London (TfL) has made real-time information available on its "Boris Bikes" scheme for developers seeking to create mobile apps. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2011
Service providers battle to reduce carbon footprint as datacentres expand
IT service providers are united in their attempt to reduce carbon footprints on paper, with corporate targets to support them, but despite putting a lot of energy into the cause, their power consumption is rising, according to a major benchmarking study. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
26 May 2011
The computers that won the war: Bletchley Park's codebreaking equipment is rebuilt
The Tunny Gallery, opened at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park on 26 May 2011, tells the incredible story of the interception and decryption of German High Command radio teleprinter messages during World War Two. Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2011
Orange and Barclaycard launch contactless mobile payments in UK
Orange and Barclaycard have introduced the first near-field communication (NFC) mobile payment system in the UK. Continue Reading
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News
18 May 2011
Dell posts 177% profit boost after increasing enterprise sales
Dell has boosted profits by 177% since last year after increasing sales to enterprise customers. Continue Reading
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News
12 May 2011
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. Continue Reading
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News
26 Apr 2011
Global cloud market to reach $240bn by 2020
The global cloud market is set to explode in the next 10 years, growing from $40.7bn in 2011 to more than $241bn in 2020, according to Forrester Research. Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2011
Computer Weekly marks the end of an era as a new one begins
The first issue of Computer Weekly magazine in 1966 marked the start of an era in the UK IT industry - the first ever weekly technology publication. This is the story of how it all began. Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2011
Intel unveils Oak Trail Atom processor chipset for tablet market
Intel is introducing a next generation Atom processors, previously codenamed "Oak Trail", aimed at the tablet market. Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2011
Manageability issues impede adoption of virtualisation
Virtual infrastructure management challenges are hindering the adoption of virtualisation within businesses, according to research. Continue Reading
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News
08 Apr 2011
Facebook has launched a project to ‘open source’ its datacentre
In the spirit of open source software, Facebook says it wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry in its Continue Reading
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Photo Story
08 Apr 2011
In 1966 England won the World Cup and Computer Weekly launched the world's first weekly IT newspaper
After 45 years in print, Computer Weekly, the award-winning title for senior IT decision-makers, is to become a 100% online publication. Here is a celebration of 45 years in print. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
04 Apr 2011
How pay-as-you-behave technology could transform car insurance
New IT systems can help calculate unique insurance premiums based on driver behaviour Continue Reading
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News
29 Mar 2011
Government puts open source at the heart of its new IT strategy
The government has launched its much-anticipated new IT strategy, highlighting open source and a promise that the coalition will do things better. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2011
Spotify hit by malicious ads
Spotify, the popular streaming music service, has been displaying malicious advertisements to users of its Free version. Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2011
Police switch to Sprint ii for IT procurement
Police forces in England and Wales are having to switch IT procurement from the Buying Solutions' CITHS framework to the SPRINT ii agreement. Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2011
Budget 2011: UK public worried spending cuts will impact data security
A large proportion of the UK public is worried that government spending cuts will have a negative effect on data security, a survey has revealed. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
23 Mar 2011
Photos: The Best iPad 2 alternatives - Tablets you should know about
Tired of hearing about why you should buy the iPad 2? Want more choice? Then have a look at our top ten alternatives. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
14 Mar 2011
Video gallery: iPhone app helps travellers avoid being Eurotrash
They say there is an app for everything but who would have thought there was one to stop tourists in Europe from offending their hosts. Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2011
Windows Phone 7 update delayed
Microsoft is delaying its first major software update to its mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 until the second half of March. Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2011
IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour
Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade.... Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Mar 2011
Google adds real-time traffic data to Android map app
Google has updated its algorithms to support real-time data for its map application for smartphones running on the Android operating system (OS). Continue Reading
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Photo Story
08 Mar 2011
Pictures of the Southampton Azure balloon
Southampton University has successfully recovered a instrumentation launched into the stratosphere using a high altitude balloon. Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2011
3UK offers unlimited data service to pay-as-you-go customers
Mobile phone service 3UK is to launch a £15 per month 'all-you-can-eat' data service for pay as you go customers. Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2011
Western Digital bids $4.3 billion for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Western Digital has tabled a bid of $4.25m (£2.6bn) to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies ending the Japanese HDD vendor's previous preparations for an IPO. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
07 Mar 2011
Photos: iPad 2 apps for business
In this photo story we look at the apps that make the iPad 2 a business tablet. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
03 Mar 2011
Photos: iPad 2 - Ten things that make it so special
The release of the iPad 2 has taken the world by storm, here we look at ten new features that make it stand out. Continue Reading
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News
02 Mar 2011
Download 180-day free trial for Windows Embedded Compact 7 OS
The latest version of Microsoft's operating system (OS) for embedded devices, Windows Embedded Compact 7 is now available on a 180-day free trial. Continue Reading
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News
01 Mar 2011
Intel finalises £5bn acquisition of McAfee
Intel has confirmed the completion of its $7.7bn (£5bn) acquisition of security software giant McAfee. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
01 Mar 2011
Photos: Fire at University of Southampton data recovery
Following a severe fire at one of Southampton University’s buildings, Kroll Ontrack was brought in to help recover as much critical data as possible from the damaged hardware. Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2011
UPDATE: Stolen network equipment causes Vodafone UK network outage
The theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
24 Feb 2011
Photo story: Inside Wikileaks' Bond villain server room
As if the story of Wikileaks' and its enigmatic founder Julian Assange didn't already sound like a spy thriller, these images of the infamous whistleblower's server room reveal a base modelled on a Bond villain's underground lair. Continue Reading
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News
22 Feb 2011
Legacy kit and lack of skills hold back digital video surveillance
A huge legacy investment in analogue equipment and a lack of data integration skills are holding back more widespread adoption of fully digital video surveillance systems, according to research just published. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
22 Feb 2011
Photos: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson continue to produce handsets that they hope will rock the smartphone world and the Arc is their top of the range. Is this the best Sony Ericsson yet? Continue Reading
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Photo Story
21 Feb 2011
Photos: Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo will run on the new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating with new features such as the iPhone folders system. Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2011
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. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
16 Feb 2011
Mobile World Congress in pictures
More than 1,300 companies attracted in excess of 50,000 delegates from 200 countries to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
14 Feb 2011
Photos: Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro - Business phone
Xperia pro is also the ideal business phone for Android fans coming complete with a set of professional functions such as syncing your email, calendar and contacts in a secure way and the pre-loaded Office Suite Pro lets consumers view and edit office documents directly on the phone. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
14 Feb 2011
Photos: Sony Xperia PLAY - The game changer
Sony Ericsson have announced the game changing Xperia PLAY, the latest phone in its Xperia range of Android based smartphones. Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2011
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. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
10 Feb 2011
Photos: INQ Cloud Touch unveiled as the Facebook phone
The phones' homescreens provide a visual Facebook feed for clicking through friends' updates, pictures, videos and web pages, with one-touch links to Facebook Chat, Friends, Messages, Wall and Notifications. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
10 Feb 2011
Photos: HP unveil TouchPad, Pre 3 and Veer
HP has launched its TouchPad tablet, which will run on the company's own WebOS operating system. At the event in San Francisco the company also unveiled two new smartphones, the HP Veer and HP HP Pre3, both powered by WebOS. Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2011
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. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
08 Feb 2011
Photos: To hell and back - Data recovery from a burnt Nikon camera
This Nikon camera was burned in a fire, the information on the SD card was recovered using specialist techniques. Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2011
OFT to investigate e-book pricing
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is launching an investigation into e-book pricing. Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2011
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.
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01 Feb 2011
ARM grows profits 47% in Q4 2010
UK-based chip developer, ARM, has reported growth in profits and sales following increased demand for smartphone and tablet licences in the fourth quarter of 2010. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
01 Feb 2011
Photos: Sony PSP2 aka NGP
Sony have unveiled the PSP2 which they are calling the NGP (Next Generaton Portable). Continue Reading
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News
28 Jan 2011
SMEs still lack data backup
Many small business lack data recovery plans, despite a recent uptake in cloud adoption, according to a survey. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2011
Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?
Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena? Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2011
House of Fraser opens mobile shopping site
House of Fraser has launched a mobile transactional website to widen customers' choice of shopping channels. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jan 2011
Lenovo rumoured to buy NEC
China-based Lenovo group is rumoured to be in talks with NEC to merge. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2011
HTC sales rocket as shipments jump 163% in Q4 of 2010
HTC has posted sales of £2.2bn for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of 153% year-on-year. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2011
Rackspace launches system administrator app
Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment. Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2011
Record sales of Mac, iPhone and iPad drive Apple's highest revenues
Apple has reported record revenue of $26.74bn and net quarterly profit of $6bn in financial results for its 2011 first quarter ended December 25, 2010. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
19 Jan 2011
Photos: Tablets set to kill the iPad - CES 2011
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been hailed as the year of the tablet, with almost 100 tablets expected to be launched during the week. Computer Weekly rounds up the top tablets set to topple Apple’s iPad success. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
18 Jan 2011
Photos: The kids are not alright on Google Street View
These pictures from Google Street View show how kids all over the world are fun-loving, funny and above all fearless. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
14 Jan 2011
Photos: The weirdest photos on Google Street View
We at Computer Weekly towers love Google Street View, here's a round-up of some of the weirdest pictures from around the world. Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2011
Government departments criticised over data sharing mistake
Three government agencies have been criticised over a data sharing mistake that led to the wrongful disclosure of a woman's personal and financial information. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2011
Glasgow 1,000-core FPGA accelerates MPEG video coding
Researchers at Glasgow university have developed a 1,000-core chip, which could lead to significantly faster processing compared to today's multi-core designs....
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11 Jan 2011
Blackberry Playbook hit by development challenges
Research in Motion (RIM) could be late to market with its Blackberry Playbook tablet device after experiencing several development challenges Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2011
Update: Who takes the blame for the Lloyds TSB duplicate payment error?
Over 200,000 people were affected by a glitch at Lloyds TSB, when an error with its merchant system duplicated payments on New Year's Eve. Jenny Williams investigates. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2011
CES 2011: Top five tablets
With almost 100 tablets expected to be launched at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, 2011 is set to be the year of the tablet device. Computer Weekly rounds up the latest tablet announcements from CES 2011. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Jan 2011
What is Near Field Communication (NFC)?
Near-field communication (NFC) allows data to be exchanged between devices via short-range, high frequency wireless communication technology by combining the interface of a smartcard and reader into a single device. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2011
BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry
David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
16 Dec 2010
Photos: The most anticipated gadgets of 2011
Last year we saw some amazing gadget developments but next year promises to be even bigger as Google go further into the mobile phone market with the Playstation Phone and also venture into web TV. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
10 Dec 2010
Photos: The funniest pictures on Google Street View
If a car goes around the world and takes pictures of everything it sees, it's bound to find some funny stuff going on. Here are some highlights. Continue Reading
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News
09 Dec 2010
Server refresh cycles may get longer
Having seen the evidence, some enterprise IT shops may experiment with holding onto servers for longer than in the past, Gartner analysts said. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
09 Sep 2010
See the datacentre of the future
Capgemini has created the first of a new breed of datacentres which mean it will never have to build a datacentre again after completing its Merlin datacentre. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
20 Jul 2010
How Intel Atom processors are supporting 1000mph Bloodhound car
Bloodhound, the latest UK attempt to improve the world land speed record, is using Intel technology Continue Reading
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Photo Story
26 Mar 2010
Photos: Hardware Hoarders - Your old computers (PART 1)
Last year we invited Computer Weekly readers to send us photos and videos of the oldest IT equipment they've held on to, and to share their excuses for hoarding it. Have a look at some of the entrants. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
17 Mar 2010
Photos: F1 - The wind beneath Red Bull's wings
This year see Red Bull Racing enter the Formula One championships with Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber taking to the grid. We look at what goes into putting the team on the track! Continue Reading
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Photo Story
18 Dec 2009
Stocking fillers for geeks for under 20 quid
Check out our list of Christmas gifts for geeks, all for under £20. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
17 Dec 2009
Photos: Great geeky gifts between 20 and 100 pounds
It's that time of year and most of you will panic buy before the big day, so we decided to give you some pointers on what to get your geek. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
04 Sep 2009
WIN Guess that kit - Smartphones but are you a Smartperson?
Enter our Guess that kit competition to have a chance of winning £50 worth of Amazon vouchers. All you need to do is guess what mobile phone is featured in each of the images in this photo story. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
17 Aug 2009
Photos: Award-winning, innovative product design of 2009
The 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition winners have just been announced. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
14 Aug 2009
Photos and video: X-Teams race for the right to rove on the moon
More than a dozen teams are racing to claim the $30 million Lunar X Prize for landing a robot rover on the moon. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
10 Aug 2009
Photos: Cyberdyne Hal robotic exoskeleton to help paralyzed
In Japan disabled and elderly are able to rent a robotic suit to help them become more mobile. Available in a two-leg (for a $2200-per-month rental fee) or one-leg version ($1500/month), the suit reads brain signals and directs leg movement. Continue Reading