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Friday, 25 July 2008

Microsoft shakes up online operation

Huge call to save Bletchley for the nation

Man sued over fake Facebook pages

Intel lays out plans for chips with everything

Interwoven buys into e-discovery

Online banking use soars

Remote access tool wakes up powered-off PCs

C2000 shows faith in VARs with credit plan

Microsoft claims Windows 7 is on track

SAP users cry foul over support fee hike

Microsoft unveils DirectX 11 at GameFest

Oyster card system fails again

Channel lambasts credit insurers

Apacs reports huge surge in phishing

Microsoft snaps up DATAllegro

Steljes admits to job losses

Hasbro sues makers of Scrabulous

Web banking security flaws 'widespread'

Narnia.mobi domain row ends in tears

UK SAP users furious over support price hike

Rumours hint at £500 MacBook

SAP user group rails against support costs

ISPs help target illegal file-sharing

Students enter Microsoft design challenge

SMS revenues to reach $177bn by 2013

Nasa opens up space image library

Microsoft buys data warehousing firm

Brocade deal signals shift in Ethernet space

Yahoo deal is off, says Microsoft

Microsoft buys data warehousing specialist

Fugitive spammer Davidson commits suicide

OGC denies eAuctions are unsuitable for VARs

SCH finalises Interface deal

NEC claims channel U-turn will help partners

Capita posts strong half-year results

Zed-3 makes first UK move

Oyster card system crashes

VAR mvision scores Tandberg world first

Morse takes a £4m hit

Retail Assist extends deal

Green IT too complex says Calyx

EC weighs up Barclays offer for Computerlinks

Online spend rockets in 2008

Ingram hails 'record' second quarter

EU and Russia unveil new spacecraft

Batman takes to the web

Exploit emerges for DNS flaw

Google rolls out Knol

Greeting card attacks resurface

Thursday, 24 July 2008

New York threatens Comcast over child porn

China VCs raise $3bn in second quarter

One in five purchase items via mobile

Esquire to debut electronic ink cover

Spam King Soloway sent down for 47 months

Juniper announces new chief executive

e-Petitions get government backing

Cameron reports stolen bike online

UK bears the brunt of credit crunch

Technology giants ride out the downturn

BSA catches four more pirates

Intel unveils embedded chips for smart devices

Gartner predicts rise in services spending

Korea gets tough on web privacy

UK online banking use soars

Helpdesk record improved by ITIL adoption

ISPs to crack down on music piracy

Trafford Council boosts co-ordinated care

Electronic advertising 'greener' than paper

ANS pre-tax profits rocket 120 per cent

HMRC announces delay to tax system rollout

Google invests in plug-in cars

Question over watchdog funds

E-books spell the end for publishers

Networks riddled with vulnerabilities

Fairweather supporters

Credit card fraud rampant in the UK

United Utilities invests £30.3m in customer service

Baidu logs big jump in sales and profits

ISPs and music industry reach historic agreement

Mimecast moves closer to indirect sales model

Rock ups its game with latest notebook range

Cisco to acquire Pure Networks

Novatech behind unique PC design

Ricoh looks to protect its lot

WD to offer businesses repackaged consumer drives

Symantec dismisses talk of channel strategy shift

Secure resellers threaten walkout

Microsoft announces online shake-up

Anglia takes a trip down under

Ingram appoints new EMEA finance head

Half a million people had communications monitored

Gala marks compliance card

Intel faces European anti-trust investigation

Intel rolls out new embedded line-up

Tech giants collaborate on wireless HD

iPhone fever fills AT&T coffers

Sony rolls out latest Reader tablet

Online gaming market tightens

Mayor intervenes in San Francisco network takeover

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Major DNS flaw revealed

Dodgy Chinese Nintendo chargers recalled

World's oldest bible goes online

Kwik Fit insurance tracks online fraudsters

NetSuite updates CRM+

eXpansys looks to new territories

Intrusive ads turn surfers away

ID theft driven by account takeovers

Inclarity tools up VARs

London is still top card fraud hotspot

Google closes in on Digg

Fluke appliance digs into datacentre application performance management

MySpace joins OpenID alliance

iAnywhere puts email on 3G iPhone

VMware to make bare metal hypervisor free

Tiscali sues BT over customer letters

Environment minister attends Sydney conference virtually

Oracle confirms BEA licence changes

Microsoft woos amateur games developers

Four UK companies settle on illegal software cases

Redten rapped over broadband claims

Accenture to help firms go green

Eee PC 1000 arrives in the UK

University going cashless with epayments

Coffee Republic completes contactless payments trial

Official 'spying' requests top 500,000

VMware to turn ESXi into freeware

Orange unveils latest 'free' laptop promo

Yahoo earnings take a hit

Integralis continues global expansion

Collaboration is the new trend

Courts squash Child Online Protection Act

Small firms naïve about security

Convicted spammer escapes from prison

Set-top boxes tune into big sales

'Cold boot' tools surface

Mould threatening VHS tape archives

E-Gold chiefs admit money laundering

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Online sports market kicks off

Female gamers approach parity with men

Court rules Oyster hack can be revealed

Yahoo settles with Icahn

Mum fights Universal over YouTube clip

Overseas growth supports Vodafone through challenging times

Students to take first complex IT systems degree

Sony Ericsson unveils new Walkman phones

LAN plan tool supports 802.11n

SCC makes a french connection

Sky duets with Universal for online music

Brocade nabs Foundry in $3bn deal

AN4 finds a window of opportunity

AirTight secures 802.11n networks

EA extends Take-Two deadline ... again

Brocade lines up Foundry buy

Thinspace to ship "fastest" thin client

SAP Tomorrow's never now

BSkyB renews telecoms deal with C&W

RM to support Tesco’s new voucher scheme

Home Office provides another £25m for police mobile computers

MPs offered free laptop locks

Nebulas Virtualise gets a new head

Spitfire enjoys the LINX effect

Firms waste 'weeks a year' on upgrades

BBC iPlayer a hit for Virgin Media

NEC Computers aims for indirect approach

EMC gives content tools a Web 2.0 makeover

Scansource doubles office space

Profit warnings down in the UK IT sector

Chelsea FC to analyse fan base

Record Mac sales drive Apple's strongest results

Yahoo gives pro-buyout investor a seat on the board

Euler Hermes pulls cover on Bell Micro Europe

Sat-nav blamed for 300,000 crashes

Apple continues record run

Hackers go down to Georgia

SAP to kill off TomorrowNow

Enterprises warned on open source security

Monday, 21 July 2008

MoD admits to widespread data losses

Google marches into Russia with ad buy

ISPs sign nationwide deal to ban child porn

Asus ships Eee PC 1000

Georgia president's web site hit by dDos attack

Rising cost of freight fuels distributor fees

Notebooks underpin continued strong PC growth

IT key for outsourcing finance, says Gartner

Sainsbury’s introduces environmental-friendly till printers

Northern channel firms on the up

CFOs must learn to understand the role of IT

Fortify warns open source is insecure

Employment and skills body opts for hosted servers

TFM Networks and Network SI team up

Kingston Communications plays host to UKCES

Opera unveils Mobile 9.5 beta

Ex-Microsoft manager jailed for $1m fraud

One fifth of all spending now online

Replication tool provides failover for Citrix virtual machines

RNM kick-starts channel drive

2e2 appoints two new apprentices

Gartner advises caution on WiMax

EOL IT becomes CarbonNeutral

Five ramps up video-on-demand

Yahoo reaches Icahn settlement

Global internet users reach 1.4 billion

O2 in MMS privacy blunder

Google rated favourite brand in the UK

Wii overtakes Xbox as US best seller

Facebook sues German 'copycat' site

Tiscali considers legal action against BT

Facebook begins new features rollout

Sony Ericsson cuts 17 per cent of staff

Online sales bolster Domino's Pizza results

Nasa may hitch a ride on Japanese spacecraft

MoD reveals full extent of laptop losses

Intel issues bullish statement on EU anti-trust case

Sony Ericsson profits plummet 98 per cent

Intel celebrates 40th birthday

Network card crashes Dublin air traffic control

Teenager beats speeding ticket with GPS

Legg Mason sides with Yahoo

Friday, 18 July 2008

Yahoo fires new salvo in Icahn fight

Apple sales rise 38 per cent in Q2

Horizon offers white-label ShoreTel services

EMEA drives IBM revenue rise

Technology giants strong despite economic gloom

Millionaire posts divorce payout online

Registration opens for .me domains

Simms signing set to trip the light fantastic

Metaforic offers anti-piracy weapon

Ruiz steps down as AMD chief exec

Promethean opens doors to its channel academy

Zebra lifts barrier to kiosk solutions

D-Link boosts resellers by driving down prices

Gamma Telecom courts data VARs

VARs must push virtualisation adoption up to the next level

Michelin outsources application development

Secerno eyes database security sector growth

Intel faces fresh charges in Europe

Nokia wants VARs to spread wings

Erik Huggers lands top BBC tech job

Microsoft swoops amid fears over piracy rise

Microsoft logs record $60.4bn revenues

Super database a 'step too far'

EU cracks down on ring-tone swindles

Channel unfazed by FSC rumour

Sony targets B2B glory

Parents naïve about kids' surfing

Firms cautious in adopting IP

IBM enjoys healthy revenue and profit growth

Citrix signs Ingram for essentials

Sony confirms UK launch for PlayTV

Computer mouse heading for extinction

Regulation quarrels could hamper BT's super-fast broadband plans

Sony unveils Vaio business notebooks

AMD oust CEO after $1bn loss

Most IT workers fancy their boss' role

Gardner farms out support with start-up

Stop playing games with staff, Barclays told

HMRC missing disc investigation cost nearly £500,000

Lees moves to global role at Secure Computing

Ramsac recalibrates

Firefox gets security tune-up

Hold off on iPhone 3G, says analyst

Software piracy 'robbing' local communities

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Tech giants collaborate on wireless HD

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iPhone fever fills AT&T coffers

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