• Hong Kong Stock Exchange suspends trading after hackers close news website
• Government moves Alpha.gov.uk one-stop website to beta phase for public testing
• Government will crack down on rioters using social media, says PM David Cameron
• RDBMS now a low focus area for BI pros
• Insurance sector CIOs plan to increase IT spend on CRM and private clouds
• Adobe issues security updates for Flash, Shockwave, Photoshop and RoboHelp
• Seven Scottish councils join forces to save £30m per year
• Microsoft aims to make website pinning easy
• Citigroup hit by second data breach in four months
• Computacenter gags Bristol City Council over anti-open source 'bias'
• Indian IT services suppliers remain upbeat in face of mounting global economic concerns
• IT budgets of insurers in APAC to grow: Report
• BT infrastructure forces Virgin Media to pull Westminster broadband and TV services
• China blames US for cyber attacks
• Lush escapes ICO monetary penalty after thousands of customer details were exposed
• Apple and publishers named in Amazon e-book price-fixing lawsuit
• Apple wins battle in patent infringement war with Samsung
• ICO failure to punish Lush for data breach 'sends wrong message'
• Oracle uses Facebook and Twitter to recruit 1,700 employees in European expansion
• Libraries must share services and embrace digitisation to survive, says MLA report
• Government IT spending report could spark virtualisation adoption
• Ignored password security policy leads to school data breach
• Privacy policies by organizations will need overhaul soon: Report
• Information security skills in high demand for 2011
• Amazon outage update: Software bug deletes customers' AWS data
• The London riots: technology updates
• Twitter acquires social network site Bagcheck
• Top tech firms hit by stock market sell-off
• Windows 7 deployments delayed by economic uncertainties, says Gartner
• Ten-year-old hacker exposes exploitable flaws in Apple and Android games
• Mahindra Satyam’s journey to recovery continues
• Majority of IT professionals want to upgrade skills to progress careers - but 41% want to leave IT
• Binley’s wins landmark ruling on database infringement
• Blackberry to co-operate with police after youths used BBM to organise riots
• IBM and NCSA scrap project to build petaflop-speed supercomputer
• Watson’s natural language processing takes crack at unstructured data
• Customer data privacy program poised to roll out at Airtel
• Desktop virtualization technology deployed at Geometric
• Who needs MPLS? A dark fibre network saves York Council
• Government denies claims former CIO John Suffolk will be hauled before MI6 for joining Chinese firm
• Anonymous hacker group publishes data stolen from US police departments
• Amazon customers consider on-premise servers after cloud service outage
• IT spending by financial markets to notch $90bn up to 2015: Report
• Department for Work and Pensions staff begin industrial action
• Investment company IT spending to show regional shift in bank strategies
• Lightning takes down Amazon and Microsoft cloud services
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society outsources to cope with restructure
• CA Technologies aims to help mainframe administrators become Linux gurus
• IT contractors look to financial services as public sector jobs reduce
• Hampshire school data breach highlights need for multiple passwords
• US standards body issues warning to energy suppliers over cyber attacks
• Toxic National Programme for IT contracts to be housed under one body
• Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday security update to tackle critical flaws in IE and Windows Server
• UK hospitals find cure for test data delivery via mobile BI
• VMware, Intel, EMC, NetApp and IBM battle in the blogs
• Bad Sectors - Maritime Safety Authority loves Gartner, Blu-Ray for servers
• Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft
• Microsoft slots 22 patches for August Patch Tuesday
• Is your BI safe in the hands of ERP vendors?
• LinkedIn second quarter financial results beat expectations
• Energy giant outsources smart meter services to Logica
• US names former Microsoft executive as new Federal CIO
• William Hill reports strong growth in online and mobile betting
• Loss of 26,000 housing records highlights poor state of UK data protection
• E-petitions crashes on first day as 1,700 users try to access it every minute
• Microsoft and Apple patent pact could drive Android prices up, warns Google
• SAP success leads to job losses at Premier Foods
• CIOs must reassess their data analytics strategy, says Accenture
• Cabinet Office completes all its structural reform actions for July
• Case Study: Data encryption at the Salvation Army
• Logica profit slumps but sales increase
• Buying from small businesses is crucial to government cost cutting, says Cabinet Office SME advisor
• Lloyds Bank cooling system failure to blame for trading downtime
• Data Sovereignty in the cloud
• NAO: Defra’s geographic information systems strategy wanting
• Missing USB drive, found in pub, contained unencrypted data
• Google gears up to challenge Skype by going global with VoIP service
• Government seeks public opinion on open data policy
• Amazon gives users control over geographic location of cloud services
• The cost of cyber attacks is up 56%, study reveals
• Utility firms step up outsourcing
• Cost of cyber crime study shows need for security planning, says ISACA
• JP Morgan deploys graphics processors to improve risk calculations
• Smartphones and tablets drive mobile data traffic up 23%, says Gartner
• SAP to expand operations in China and India
• Mobile data traffic increased 40-fold in three years, says Ofcom report
• CIO interview: Peter Ransom, chief information officer, Oxfam
• MPs calls for a thorough testing of HMRC real-time information system
• Microsoft puts up $250,000 reward for new security ideas
• VMware bows to customers, changes vSphere 5 licensing: News in brief
• Hotmail makes sign-in changes, can't please everyone
• When Apple iOS HTTPS certificate failures are silent
• Round table: the value of big data
• Government ditches plans to block filesharing sites following changes to copyright law
• £4.3bn of NHS IT contracts reviewed as MPs accuse Department of Health of 'deliberate concealment'
• UK companies must heed Sun hack warning, say security experts
• Cloud services by telcos face roadblocks: Report
• eBay boosts virtual servers with 100 terabytes of flash memory
• Virgin Media plans free Wi-Fi roll-out in London
• RIM unveils five Blackberry 7 Bold and Torch smartphones
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