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Large CSC project dumped amid growing crisis

CSC, which is embroiled in potentially damaging fraud allegations and shareholder lawsuits, has lost a large project mired by cost overruns and angry political arguments. read more »

Anonymous releases recording between FBI and UK law enforcement

Hacktivist group obtained an email containing the dial-in details and access code for the conference call read more »

Lack of career information means IT industry loses out, says CompTIA

Schools and universities need to make students more aware of available IT career opportunities read more »

Anonymous data isn't really so anonymous after all, says Microsoft

Even anonymised data can leak information about IP addresses and cookies read more »

Facebook IPO says a lot about their technology

Now we get to find out about their long hidden patents, data storage and intellectual property read more »

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Facebook IPO

What Facebook's IPO means for users

Facebook suffers outage a day after IPO filing

Facebook market listing - How other recent dot-com IPOs have fared

In Depth

Can Facebook replace traditional business websites?

Integrating your website with social media sites is typically the best approach to online marketing and ecommerce, but are there times when it makes sense to use Facebook instead of a traditional business website? read more »

Facebook market listing - How other recent dot-com IPOs have fared

While many dot-com IPOs have been long on hype, they haven't yet paid off in terms of shareholder value read more »

What Facebook's IPO means for users

Facebook has filed to become a public company, raising questions about how that may affect its services and culture read more »

How to prevent your domain name from being hijacked

Domain name hijacking can lead to loss of business and expose your customers to malware. Here's how to stop it. read more »

CFOs must act when ERP goes wrong

Problems are amazingly costly, giving finance an equal role with IT in finding the prescription read more »

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Podcast: Does your network give you the freedom to innovate?

Join ComputerworldUK editor Mike Simons and Alison Adams Head of VPN & Security at Virgin Media Business to thrash out the issues. Listen Now

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Slideshows: 10 new open source projects you may not know about

Is the government providing a financial safety net to some of the biggest IT suppliers?

Live Comments

Tablets are the future and I'm glad to see Ubuntu there Canonical to expand Ubuntu for smartphones and tablets

By using SAM to its full potential, organisations can not only avoid the costs of being under-licensed, but have their licences working for them. This is the true potential of SAM. Software audit lands firm with £25,000 bill

Every once in a while something happens which restores some faith in humanity. Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011

Software engineering is an art form that should be practiced daily and no amount of jumping around with superficially learned multiple skill sets is going to be the silver bullet for enterprise What today's software developers need to know

It would be interesting to see LinkedIn applying this research globally rather than just focusing on the USA... plenty going on outside California LinkedIn data offers clues as to what makes an entrepreneur

It is obvious that Apple's future innovation will be in the courtroom rather than in the lab where it should be. Samsung pulls Galaxy Tab 7.7 from IFA show after court order

Blogs

ITIL adoption: 5 steps that can help with success

Greenfield ITIL adoption or driving improved IT support and service delivery - start hereread more »

ACTA Update II

Although ACTA is billed as a global treaty, there are only two participants that really matter: the US and the European Union. If either of those dropped out, it would be completely ineffectual. I think the US is unlikely to...read more »

PRINCE2 Professional: Can you hack it?

A leading project management trainer sits the new qualificationread more »

GOV.UK: What Open Source Has Been Waiting For?

I've been writing for what seems decades about the UK government's failure to take advantage of open source. And I've been writing for what is certainly years about its promises to do better. It finally looks as if it is...read more »

ACTA Update I

Anyone who follows me on Twitter or identi.ca, or on Google+ will have noticed something of a crescendo of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) recently. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the immediate threat...read more »

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