• UK IT profession reaches all-time high, but training is reducing
• Information Commissioner calls for more privacy improvements at Google
• Microsoft to discontinue support for its e-book reader application
• Schools could close IT courses due to funding cuts
• Apple iPad 3 release likely to be delayed to 2012
• Cadbury nearshores digital development to engage customers online
• Government announces £363m investment in broadband
• Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust
• Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC
• Google buys Motorola Mobility for £7.65bn
• Government allocates £4.4m to improve Northern Ireland broadband capacity
• CIO interview: Alastair Behenna, technology director, Telecity Group
• Aurora Fashion extends e-commerce deal
• Telcos offer cloud alternative
• Swift proposes identity management system to banks
• Cisco surprises despite lower profits: News in brief
• PCI tokenisation best practices guidance offers flexibility
• Data quality improvement impeded by lack of automation
• LinkedIn bows to pressure over “social ads” privacy concerns
• Gist uses IBM cloud to improve supply chain messaging
• Google releases Native Client beta for web applications
• US university takes over a month to notify students and staff of potential data breach
• UK law is proving adaptable to tech-assisted crime, but is blocking social media going too far?
• Parliamentary group of MPs to discuss outsourcing and shared services
• Surrey Council sets out plans for shared network service
• Cern's volunteer cloud aims to help search for Higgs boson
• Hong Kong stock exchange hack attack highlights need for real-time security systems
• Standard published for securing biometric authentication systems
• Medical specialist BPL virtualises IT
• Cloud providers and data sovereignty issues
• Gartner: Corporate privacy policy requirements demand urgent review
• Hacker group threatens Blackberry for assisting police investigating UK riots
• Intel Capital launches $300m war chest to develop Ultrabooks
• Metropolitan Police invites tenders for command and control system upgrade
• Worldwide smartphone sales grow 74% in second quarter of 2011, says Gartner
• US woman sues Google over Gmail scanning
• Norwegian Stock Exchange to migrate operations to LSE MillenniumIT platform
• NPIA’s National Police Procurement Hub goes live
• Technology Strategy Board plans series of launchpad investment events to boost UK’s tech start-ups
• Standard Life increases IT spending as tech-enabled efficiency savings reach £64m
• South Wales Police arrest two men in Cardiff for inciting criminality on Facebook
• Cisco shares up 13% on better-than-expected financial results
• IT firm grows business five-fold after hiring apprentices
• 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
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