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Microsoft puts Office Mobile on iPhone

iPhone users can now use Microsoft’s Office Mobile product which is available as a free download from the AppStore Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Serco outsources IT infrastructure and transformation

Business service provider Serco contracts SunGard for its UK IT infrastructure that will help Serco increase its cloud services Continue Reading

NPfIT legacy: NHS yet to spend £600m on CSC Lorenzo patient records

The NHS has still to spend £600m on CSC's Lorenzo patient record system as a legacy of the defunct National Programme for IT (NPfIT) Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Senior judge hears Barnet Council outsourcing challenge

The second most senior judge in England and Wales will hear a legal challenge against Barnet Council’s outsourcing programme Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

UK links to US internet surveillance remain unclear

The government insists that UK spy agencies operate within the law, but questions remain Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Telefonica Digital forms security group Eleven Paths

The business division of mobile operator Telefonica launches Eleven Paths, an independent company working on security issues in the workplace Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Google buys Israeli navigation app start-up Waze

Google is set to acquire Israeli crowd-sourced navigation app start-up Waze for $1bn after talks with Facebook fall through Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Manage identity and access to improve business processes

Streamlining identity and access management is essential to exploiting your organisation’s assets and employees’ productivity. Continue Reading

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• Andras Cser

NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014

NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Review: HP Pavilion Chromebook

At £249, the HP Pavilion Chromebook is the cheapest laptop from HP. We test it out in a corporate environment. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

PM urged to criminalise internet rape porn

Campaigners are calling for the criminalisation of possessing internet pornography depicting rape Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

ICO fines Glasgow City Council for loss of unencrypted laptops

Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 for losing two laptops which held personal details of more than 20,000 people Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

European hotspots rip off Wi-Fi users

Almost all mobile workers have had personal experience of costly Wi-Fi, a survey has found Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Worldwide mobile payment value to jump 44% but NFC plunges

The value of mobile payments made globally in 2013 will be 44% higher than last year, at $235.4bn, but near-field communications (NFC) transactions value dropped 40% after disappointing adoption Continue Reading

Costs of NPfIT significantly greater than benefits, says Department of Health

The defunct NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) realised £3.7bn of benefits but cost £7.3bn, says the Department of Health Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Bet365's move to HTML5 is more than a gamble

Online gaming site Bet365 has starting using HTML5 to build a rich user experience on its website Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Human error causes most data breaches, Ponemon study finds

Human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012, according to a study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Whitehall should use Twitter to engage public in open policy-making, say MPs

Government should use Twitter for an ‘open policy’ approach, says the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Windows Server 2012 R2: a first look

Microsoft has announced Windows Server 2012 R2, which brings Azure technology to private clouds Continue Reading

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• Tim Anderson

CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones

After a year of turmoil caused by migration away from HMV, the IT team at Waterstones is finally finding room to think about strategy Continue Reading

Universal Credit will cost taxpayers £12.8bn

The government’s review of major projects revealed the flagship Universal Credit programme will cost nearly six times more than previously billed Continue Reading

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• Mark Ballard

Fair exchange protocols with anonymity and non-repudiation for payments

This article in our Royal Holloway Information Security series looks in detail at two key principles necessary for secure payments: fair exchange and non-repudiation. Continue Reading

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CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4

Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading

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Wireless charging: The story so far...

Rupert Goodwins looks into the technology behind wireless charging and whether it is good enough yet for wider adoption Continue Reading

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• Rupert Goodwins

Review of LiveCode 6.0 cross platform software development

Scottish cross-platform programming specialist RunRev released its LiveCode 6.0 software recently, with a promise of drag and drop programming. Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management

ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CERN uses ITIL to rethink facilities management

CERN, the particle physics laboratory, is using IT service management to support operations outside the IT function Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

France Telecom changes name to Orange

The mobile operator will embrace the Orange branding globally, despite dropping it in the UK after merger with T-Mobile Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Stratfor hacker pleads guilty

US hacktivist Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to accessing computers of law enforcement agencies and government contractors illegally Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Syrian hackers deface Sky Android apps

Syrian hackers have defaced several of Sky’s Android apps, forcing the broadcaster to remove them temporarily from the Google Play store Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Bolton and Wigan get PSN in £47m outsourcing deal

Bolton and Wigan councils have signed a seven-year £47m outsourcing contract, which will deliver a ‘PSN ready’ network to the region. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

BT and Intel invest in lab to research into future cities and telecoms technologies

A research laboratory has been launched by BT and Intel to develop networking technologies and smart city capabilities. Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Interview: Government CTO Liam Maxwell

Government CTO Liam Maxwell has driven Whitehall’s IT agenda for years, previously as deputy government CIO and director of ICT futures Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB Continue Reading

Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m

Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

O2 questions CWU redundancy claims as union threatens action

Mobile operator O2 questions Communication Workers Union (CWU) claim of 600 redundancies in outsourcing deal with Capita Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UK ISPs block access to pirate sites

UK internet service providers have begun blocking access to two sites accused of breaking copyright laws Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

O2 selects Capita for 10-year customer service outsource

Mobile operator O2 is outsourcing management of its customer services centres to Capita in a 10-year deal expected to be worth about £1.2bn Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology

CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Contactless payments exceed five million in March

Some 5.3 million contactless transactions totalling over £39m were made in March 2013 using Visa contactless cards Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft and Janet deal brings cloud to millions of academics

Microsoft and the UK’s research and education network deal gives academic institutions access to Office 365 and millions of students fast and secure access to Windows Azure cloud Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Privileged accounts key to most APT attacks, says Cyber-Ark

The theft, misuse and exploitation of privileged accounts is becoming an increasingly key tactic in advanced persistent threat attacks Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Oops! The risks of using social media at work

Recent tribunal cases show the risks that employers and employees run when using social media services Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Most IT environments immature, Microsoft reveals

Most business IT environments are immature, analysis of data from Microsoft’s Cloud Security Readiness Tool has revealed Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Microsoft brings Surface Pro tablet to the UK

Following the launch of Windows 8 and the Windows RT-powered Surface tablet, Microsoft is introducing a full-blown tablet for Windows 8 Professional Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

HSBC axes 14,000 jobs

HSBC is to lay off up to 14,000 global staff in a cost-cutting move likely to include redundancies among the bank's back-office IT employees Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Microsoft declares conformance with ISO 27034-1

Microsoft has declared conformance with ISO 27034-1, the first part of an international standard for secure software development Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Cyber criminals hack Washington court system

Hackers gain access to the personal data of 160,000 US citizens after compromising Washington State court service servers Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Workplace IT services in flux: wherever, whenever, whatever

Enterprise computing is in upheaval as the emphasis shifts towards automation and user-device provision. Continue Reading

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• Bill Martorelli and Wolfgang Benkel

Case Study: Brent Council cuts costs with mobile tech

Brent Council implements mobile technology to cut costs and involve more staff in the future running of the organisation Continue Reading

CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team

Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

BT profits rise in Q4

Profits for BT reached £1.67bn in the fourth quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, a 4% rise from the same period the year before Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Case study: TKAB adopts mobile for Swedish railways

The winners of cloud innovation of the year in Computer Weekly’s European user awards for networking tell us how they have used the Appear IQ mobile platform to boost efficiency and its transport service Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Virgin Media tentatively names new CEO

Liberty Global – the US firm buying out Virgin Media – has named Tom Mockridge as CEO, if the merger is approved by shareholders Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud

SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna and Cliff Saran

Adobe moves to cloud-based subscription model

Adobe has announced that it is to introduce a cloud-based subscription model for popular applications, including Photoshop Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Microsoft to bring back the Start button in Windows 8?

Amid lacklustre take-up of Windows 8 and a declining PC industry, Microsoft may be set to reintroduce the much-loved Start button in Windows 8 Continue Reading

Procter & Gamble could follow General Motors’ move in-house

US manufacturing giant Procter & Gamble is reportedly considering moving outsourced work in-house Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Symantec helps NHS trust cut security costs by a quarter

The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust cut security costs by 25% in its partnership with security supplier Symantec Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

SME Arcus brings AWS IaaS and PaaS to public sector with G-Cloud

UK SME Arcus Global has become the first certified Amazon Web Services reseller on the government’s third G-Cloud framework Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

BMW outsources web platform roll-out to Accenture

German car manufacturer BMW has contracted Accenture to manage the implementation of its new web platform Continue Reading

Salesforce.com targets communities

Salesforce.com says it wants to address communities with its software as a service (SaaS) platform Continue Reading

Windows 8 passes 100 million in sales

Microsoft says Windows 8 OS has sold more than 100 million copies, roughly matching Windows 7 in the six months after launch Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

95% of local councils share services

Hundreds of local councils are sharing services as government cuts force them to fund new ways of providing services Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Two approaches to WAN optimisation

The two main barriers to WAN optimisation are cost and complexity. We look at low-cost, simple to configure alternatives Continue Reading

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• Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing

Netherlands considers hacking powers for police

The Netherlands government considers legislation to give police powers to hack into computers, install spyware and read emails Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Computer Weekly European User Awards for Security: Winners

The winners are in for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Security. See who made the top spots. Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly

Report into Post Office Horizon system expected in July

The findings of an independent investigation into the Post Office's Horizon accounting system are expected to be published in July Continue Reading

What’s to be done about data breach discovery?

The time from first contact by cyber attackers to the victim learning of it is still measured in months and years, not hours and days Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

The Great Deverticalisation – part 5: Mind the GaaP

Politicians and government have the opportunity, through the power of open platforms, to take the lead in creating modern public services Continue Reading

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• Mark Thompson, Jerry Fishenden & Alan Brown

Schuh takes first steps to in-store Wi-Fi

Shoe retailer Schuh signs a contract with The Cloud to offer free Wi-Fi to customers Continue Reading

Progress made on Lloyds Bank's Project Verde segregation

Lloyds Banking Group has reported good progress in its project to enable the systems for the new standalone TSB bank which will be sold off when complete Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Case study: The DANTE link for Euro academics

The best technology innovation winners of Computer Weekly’s European User Awards for Networking on how DANTE brings together researchers from far and wide with Infinera solutions Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Case study: How SAP runs Cape Town

For the past 10 years, SAP has been running the city of Cape Town, South Africa Continue Reading

CW500: 4G to underpin ubiquitous mobile services

The catalyst for debate at April’s CW500 Club meeting was the arrival of the 4G mobile network in the UK Continue Reading

O2 hires BT for 4G backhaul

Mobile operator O2 has signed a 10-year contract with BT to build a new high-capacity network for 4G services Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Empowering users: It is not all about BYOD

The real benefits of bring your own device (BYOD) only arise when the right culture and mindset are developed Continue Reading

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• Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics

Infosec 2013: Cyber crime challenges law enforcement

Cyber crime is forcing police and law enforcement agencies to re-think basic skills needed, according to experts at Infosecurity Europe 2013 Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Lib Dems will block Snoopers’ Charter, says Nick Clegg

The draft Communications Data Bill will not go ahead while the Lib Dems are in government, says deputy prime minister Nick Clegg Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Herding Geese: The Retail Supply Chain

Steven Keifer draws on the pioneering work of US retailer, Walmart, to explain the essentials of EDI in the retail supply chain. Continue Reading

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Standard Bank uses SAP to bring mobile banking to communities

Many people in South Africa do not have a bank account. Standard Bank has used SAP to help people get started with banking. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Infosec 2013: University research challenges reliability of IPS

Research shows intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are not as effective at detecting malicious activity as some might think Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

UK online businesses neglect mobile strategy

Online businesses are failing to implement mobile strategies, according to a report from Barclays bank Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Security spend misaligned with threats, says security veteran

Security budget allocations have remained the same for the past 15 years, but threats have changed, says Shlomo Kramer, chief executive at security firm Imperva Continue Reading

CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways

After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

The internet of things is set to change security priorities

IT leaders must protect against the security risks introduced by the growing interaction between technology and the physical world. Continue Reading

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• Andrew Rose

US jails LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger

The US has jailed a member of hacktivist group LulzSec for a year for his role in breaching computer systems at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2011 Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Mega vendors: Quarterly results Q1 2013

A number of the larger IT suppliers reported their quarterly financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Conficker makes way for web-based attacks, says Microsoft

Web attacks emerge as top threat as businesses finally begin to win the battle against Conficker and other worms, says Microsoft Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation

The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Microsoft reports strong quarterly results for all divisions

Microsoft reported profit of $6bn for the past quarter, up 17% from a year ago, despite a mixed response to Windows 8 and a decline in PC sales Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Opinion split on whether to offshore IT to China

Relatively low costs and high levels of software skills give China immense potential when it comes to providing large businesses with IT services, but opinion is split on whether it is an option Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IT rationalisation must be combined with layoffs for long-term savings

Long-term IT cost reduction requires more than just server consolidation and cuts to software licences, says Gartner Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage

The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Preparing for the Capital Requirements Directive

Just how prepared were the financial markets across Europe for CRD IV and XBRL? Continue Reading

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How to create a good information security policy

Information security policies provide vital support to security professionals, yet few organisations take the time to create decent policies Continue Reading

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• Andi Scott

One man’s mission to uncover a WWII decryption machine

How Brian Randell unlocked the secrets of Colossus, the world’s first programmable computer. Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

Case study: London's Olympic network from BT

After receiving an honourable mention in the European user awards for networking, Computer Weekly looks at the challenge of rolling out the network for the London Olympic Games in 2012 Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget