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Apple faces £1.43m fine in Australian 4G iPad case

Apple has agreed to pay a £1.43m fine for misleading Australians about the 4G capacity of its latest iPad in a case brought by the national consumer watchdog Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Microsoft publishes its response to government open standards consultation

Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards. Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

TfL opens up live bus data

Transport for London (TfL) has finally released live bus data, several months after it delivered the Countdown Live Bus Arrivals website Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Top 10 tips for IPv6 security

Many organisations are being misled about the complexities surrounding IPv6 security, according to security firm Stonesoft Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Royal Signals ‘Unsung Heroes’ Awards

IT experts from the Royal Signals were rewarded for their support and commitment to the service during an event for "unsung heroes" at Mansion House. Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly

Majority of UK websites fail to comply with cookie law

Most UK websites are not yet compliant with the newly enforced cookie law, a study has revealed Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Cisco updates ASR 5500 series for 4G networks

Cisco's updated ASR 5500 series aims to help businesses with increasing mobile traffic moving across networks as 4G looms Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Court cases that stormed the technology universe in 2012

Know about the top high profile court cases that dominated tech landscape in 2012. These court cases will influence the way technology is used and sold. Continue Reading

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• Staff Writer, SearchCIO.IN

Former MI5 boss loses laptop

The former boss of the UK's MI5 security service has caused a security scare by losing her laptop at Heathrow. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Cambridgeshire launches PSN to cut £1m per year

Cambridgeshire County Council will save £1m per year with the launch of its public services network (PSN) Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

BT kills broadband roll-out in London borough

Kensington and Chelsea turn down the offer of fibre broadband to keep its ‘historic streetscapes’ intact Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Intel's first smartphone - Orange San Diego

Intel enters the smartphone market with an Orange-branded handset, named the San Diego Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

William Grant & Sons opens datacentre for ERP consolidation

Distiller William Grant & Sons opens a UK datacentre to consolidate its global ERP operation Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Post Office rolls out NFC contactless payments

The postal company will deploy 300,000 contactless payment terminals across 11,500 Post Offices, making it the largest roll-out of the technology in Europe Continue Reading

BT helps itself to Home Hubs for public Wi-Fi

A feature of BT's routers called Fon gives away a percentage of bandwidth from home-based Wi-Fi to passers-by, often without user consent. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Security researchers discover powerful cyber espionage weapon 'Flame'

Security researchers have discovered a cyber espionage weapon, dubbed 'Flame', with a functionality greater than any other known threat Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

EU to launch trade case against Chinese telcos Huawei and ZTE

The European Union has accused the two Chinese telecoms firms of obtaining illegal government subsidies and selling products below cost Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

UK regulator PhonepayPlus shuts down Angry Birds smartphone scam

UK users of Android smartphones have been targeted by premium-rate phone scams masquerading as popular apps such as Angry Birds Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Video: ICO publishes new guidance on cookie law

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published new guidance on cookie law and revealed the organisations it has approached on the issue Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Huddle gets $24m second-round funding as CIOs wake up to cloud collaboration

UK software firm Huddle has received $24m second-round funding to support its global expansion as CIOs wake up to cloud collaboration Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Overrun in big IT projects leads to one in three failures

One-third of big IT projects are likely to get derailed after they have been running for two years, according to research. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Amey uses SAP HR system to manage 11,000 people

Developed by SAP specialist Epi-use, SAP HR is being used to power a human resources shared service at construction firm Amey Continue Reading

Dell's quarterly profits take a dive

Dell saw its profits dive 33% in its first financial quarter of 2013 as consumer and large enterprise sales fell 12% and 3% respectively Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Vblocks revenues on track to hit $3bn in 2013

The tie-up between Cisco, EMC and VMware is ramping up revenues from its datacentre-in-a-box product Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Facebook shares drop over 10% in second day of trade

Facebook shares have fallen below the initial public offering price of $38 in their second day of trading in New York Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Tucci: FusionIO ‘darn right foolish’ for Flash attitude

EMC’s CEO hits back at FusionIO as the war of words continues between the two companies Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Global software piracy increasing rapidly, study shows

Global software piracy is increasing rapidly in the absence of any effective deterrence, a survey has revealed. Continue Reading

How high performance computing could make Marussia F1 champion

We take a tour of the Marussia F1 Team's base in Banbury to see how HPC technology is helping the Formula 1 team competitive but on a budget. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Mobile threats demand focus on data protection, says Websense

Business needs to focus on data protection as cyber criminals turn to mobile malware, says Websense. Continue Reading

Analyst Insight: Is There a Smart City Market?

The value of the IT market for smart cities globally is approximately $35bn, according to this in depth analysis from Ovum. Continue Reading

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Smart Cities: The anywhere working city

This report from Microsoft presents a vision for the development of smart cities which bring together technology, architecture and people. Continue Reading

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HyperCITY's retail management system at a glance

Know the benefits that HyperCITY, one of India's largest hypermarket chains, derives from Oracle retail management system. Continue Reading

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• SearchCIO.IN Staff Writer

The Pirate Bay is latest site to be hit by DDoS attack

The Pirate Bay has become the latest high-profile website to be hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

London 2012 Olympic Games IT enters final test

The Atos team controlling the IT for the London 2012 Olympic Games are recreating the environment for a final test before systems go live Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

CIO interview: Cathryn Riley, CIO, Aviva

It's been a tough time for Aviva with CEO Andrew Moss forced to step down in a shareholder revolt. But for CIO Cathryn Riley, it’s business as usual. Continue Reading

Legislators need to get a grip on ISP speed

It is time for the rules to get tough on ISPs and their broadband speed advertising Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Huawei wins managed services contract for O2 network

Chinese telecoms firm Huawei is hired by O2 parent Telefónica to plan and maintain its mobile network in the UK Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Can mobile operators take on 'over-the-top' service providers?

With Telefonica launching a rival to Skype, can mobile operators claw back revenues lost to internet start-ups? Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Court stops Dutch party sharing Pirate Bay links

A court in The Hague has ordered a political party in the Netherlands to stop publicising ways to get around blocks to Swedish file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Banks still handicapped by IT legacy

Research finds three-quarters of banks in Europe are using outdated core systems which are hindering their ability to grow Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Cyber attackers increasingly targeting applications, research shows

Web and mobile applications are the new frontiers in the war against cyber attack, according to an HP cyber security risks report Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

BT revenues fail to impress

BT today revealed its results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, showing a number of its divisions with falling incomes Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Online competition sends Clinton Cards into administration

High street card retailer Clintons enters administration as online rivals take control of the market Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Troubled RPA systems to be replaced by 2015

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to roll out a new payments system for the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) by 2015 Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Capturing opportunity: Cleantech business booms

Cleantech is emerging as a suitable alternative source of energy or a means of reducing consumption of expensive resources, this report from Grant Thornton reveals. Continue Reading

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The future of Government operations: Digital citizen survey

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. Continue Reading

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HP shows the way forward for its PC division

HP invited 500 bloggers and journalists to Shanghai to see the future of its PC business Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Government snooping plans unveiled

The Queen's Speech has revealed that the government still plans to make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Indian IT services firm Infosys opens UK apprenticeship scheme

Indian IT services firm Infosys is to offer UK apprenticeship places with the National Apprenticeship Scheme (NAS) over the next five years Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

HP and F5 team up for virtual application delivery

HP has announced a partnership with F5 to speed up deployment of applications within virtualisation technology. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Avaya provides networking education to Leeds Metropolitan University

Avaya today announced a deal with Leeds Metropolitan University, which has seen the firm build out a network for the 28,000 staff and students across the organisation’s campuses. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Inflation negates growth in average IT pay

IT salaries grew by an average of 4.3% in 2011, compared with an average of 2.3% across all sectors, with the average IT salary exceeding £40,000. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

BT pays out £90m bonus package

BT will hand out bonuses of nearly £90m after a scheme to improve the company’s struggling global services division paid off Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

London to test urban operating system

London is to test an operating system developed to support the smart cities of the future to keep buildings, traffic and services running smoothly. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

UK to expand cyber info-sharing hub after initial success

A public/private cyber security initiative exposed a campaign of malicious emails targeting UK defence companies, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has revealed. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

MasterCard certifies raft of NFC mobiles

MasterCard has certified HTC, Intel, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Sony mobiles to use its near field communications (NFC) payment system Continue Reading

Why the public sector is turning to multi-sourcing

Sarah Burnett explains why the public sector is moving from single sourcing to multi-sourcing, in an age of austerity. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Burnett, NelsonHall

What UK citizens think about digital government

Two-thirds of UK citizens already use the internet to interact with government, according to Accenture research. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

European copyright ruling good for IT innovation, say lawyers

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

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

A 4G tour in London

Trefor Davies, chief technology officer at Timico, is on O2's 4G trial in London. How fast is 4G really? Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

US to legislate to protect Facebook passwords from employers

The US is planning legislation that will protect Facebook passwords from prying employers Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Unlocking growth potential in emerging markets

Emerging markets offer huge potential for technology companies to expand. This report from Grant Thornton assess the opportunities in a range of emerging markets. Continue Reading

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G-Cloud cost £4.93m to set up, says Maude

The government’s G-Cloud programme and CloudStore cost £4.93m to set up, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said in response to a parliamentary question. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Open Data Center Alliance focuses on big data collaboration

The Open Data Center Alliance, a group of 12 major IT users, is collaborating with industry on big data architectures Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

InfoSecurity Europe: Odd Bugs

A selection of photos showing how far exhibitors will go to get people to their stands at InfoSecurity Europe 2012... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Half of UK networks vulnerable to APTs

Many UK corporate networks are vulnerable to advanced persistent threats (APTs), a survey has revealed. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Government launches MyCSP mutual project

The government has launched the first of a planned series of mutuals which take public services and split the ownership between government, staff and private sector. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Swift builds underground datacentre to keep bank transactions in Europe

Swift is building an underground datacentre to make it possible to fully process European bank transactions in Europe Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

CIO interview: David Bulman, chief information officer, Virgin Atlantic

Six months after joining Virgin Atlantic as CIO, David Bulman is leading a transformation at the airline with mobile technology at its heart. Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Amazon results demonstrate commitment to cloud

Amazon's AWS cloud business made $500m in sales in the first quarter of 2012, comprising 3.79% of Amazon's Q1 business Continue Reading

Infosec 2012: Unscrubbed hard drives a threat to business, says ICO

Unscrubbed hard drives on computers that are decommissioned and sold on represent a significant risk to business Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Infosec 2012: Internet security body to tackle SSL problems

The Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM) is to tackle implementation and governance internet communication protocol (SSL) as its first project. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Infosec 2012: Patching alone can deliver 80% protection

Keeping software up to date with security patches can deliver 80% protection from cyber threats, says security firm Secunia. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

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. Continue Reading

Apple overtakes IBM and HP in sales

Apple has posted another remarkable set of financial results, overtaking IT giants IBM and HP in sales during its latest financial quarter. Continue Reading

Infosec 2012: Cloud enables security expertise for SME

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) typically face the same threats as bigger organisations, but lack the same level of expertise and other security resources. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Infosecurity Europe

With 300 exhibitors and hundreds of delegates, security is still hot on the IT agenda. Cliff Saran presents the highlights of infosecurity Europe Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

John Lewis pilots virtual fashion mirrors

John Lewis is using augmented reality to enable customers to try clothes on virtually, as part of its multichannel offering.   Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

UK firms see competitors as greater cyber attack risk than criminals

More than half of UK firms expect a cyber attack in the next six months, but see competitors as a greater risk than criminals Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

BBC wants to build a cultural API

With over 80 years of cultural information in its archive, the BBC is looking at making programme metadata available Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Outsourcing in the UK slows down in early 2012

Outsourcing in the UK has slowed considerably in the first three months of 2012 with the value of contracts signed falling well below last year. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IT staff lack understanding to succeed with big data

IT professionals lack the skills to truly understand the big data opportunity for business and government Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Open standards are about the business model, not the technology

Software companies, abuzz with lobbyists and patent lawyers over government open standards, are similar to the record industry 10 years ago. Continue Reading

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• Mark Thompson, Exeter Business School and DIGITLab

Supercomputers will reach 'exascale' speeds within decade

Supercomputers will be powerful enough to simulate the human brain within seven years, says founder of Top500 list. Continue Reading

Staff at IT services firm CSC protest redundancy policy

Workers at IT services giant CSC in the UK are holding a lunchtime protest today (19 April) to protest at the company’s redundancy policy Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services

Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly. Continue Reading

FCC fines Google $25k for hampering Street View Wi-Fi data harvesting probe

Federal Communications Commission fines Google $25k for obstructing investigation into harvesting Wi-Fi data for Google Maps' Street View Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Test drive: SQL Server 2012

Tim Anderson looks at the enterprise features in Microsoft's latest relational database management server. Continue Reading

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• Tim Anderson

HP losing grip of EDS’s Ministry of Defence contract

HP’s grip on a flagship Ministry of Defence contract could be weakening after CSC took over a key outsourcing deal. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Special Report on IBM

This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, and the services it offers. Continue Reading

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How technology, media and telecoms companies can win the confidence of investors

Deloitte looks at the impact leadership has on company performance in the techonology media and telecoms sectors. Continue Reading

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Transforming IT at HM Revenue & Customs - Phil Pavitt, CIO for HMRC

HMRC CIO Phil Pavitt talked to the CW500 club about IT transformation. These are his slides with a report of his talk. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin & Faisal Alani

Busy security patch month for Microsoft administrators

Microsoft has released six patches, four critical, for 11 vulnerabilities in Office, Windows and various server products in its April security update. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

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. Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Department of Health and CSC in deadlock over Lorenzo records system

The Department of Health and CSC failed to meet the deadline to agree new terms for the troubled electronic records systems Lorenzo Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Microsoft improves virtual desktops but drops inventory software

Microsoft is expanding its desktop virtualisation product family with software that retains user preferences as they switch between devices Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Bodycote simplifies Microsoft licensing to save £411k

Thermal processing plant operator Bodycote has reduced the complexity of its Microsoft environment through an enterprise agreement, saving over £400,000 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Atos completes first live software rehearsal for London 2012 Olympics

Atos has completed the first live rehearsal of IT, communications, media, sports and security systems for the London 2012 Olympics Continue Reading

South West police roll out £1.1m central data repository

Police forces in the South West of England are going live with a £1.1m data sharing system across the region Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget