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Rimini Street gets another £10m to keep piling the pressure on SAP and Oracle

Silicon Valley's Bridge Bank has ploughed millions of funding into SAP and Oracle third party software maintenance company Rimini Street. read more »

Hospitals deploy cloud-based Radiology Information System with Accenture

Clinicians will be able to store, access and exchange patient information in the cloud read more »

Miliband calls for G8 intervention on international tax reform for internet giants

The Labour Party leader’s comments come as Google; Amazon et al are in the spotlight read more »

Capita inks 10-year deal with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue

It is the first authority to adopt Capita’s latest command and control solution read more »

New UK Oracle User Group President plans C-level track for members

David Warburton-Broadhurst believes that commercial members will hold greater weight with Oracle read more »

Latest News

Blue Coat Systems to acquire security analytics firm Solera Networks

Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect potential security threats. read more »

Salesforce.com aims its customer service, social monitoring apps at governments

Government agencies could use Salesforce.com's technology to deliver services to citizens on mobile devices read more »

Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 patents, Apple says

Apple wants to add the Galaxy S4 to a U.S. lawsuit that was filed in February 2012 read more »

Chinese rival bolsters search engine against Baidu with Alibaba partnership

Qihoo 360's search engine is taking market share from Baidu read more »

Apple to build Macs in low-tax Texas

CEO Tim Cook reveals location of $100M investment for 'Made in the U.S.A.' Macs read more »

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Security

Cyber confusion at the heart of Government

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Researchers warn malware targeting online stock trading software

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In Depth

IT on the fly: The art of quickly building, then dismantling

The CIOs for the London Olympics, President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and other short-lived but intense operations know how to run successful IT shops in extraordinary situations -- and their insights can be applied in even the most ordinary of conditions. Insider (registration required) read more »

The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety

This CIO is bringing analytics to the gridiron to improve player safety. read more »

How to prevent IT department overload

IT's new concern: The personal cloud

NetSuite eyes European growth with data centre investment plan

US firm looks to boost slowing growth in UK, and establish itself in wider EMEA region read more »

Part 2 of your journey to virtualisation

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Microsoft Surface tablet

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Windows 8

The latest on the new Windows next-generation operating system.

ComputerworldUK Poll

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Slideshows: IT professionals' common LinkedIn mistakes

I have no desire to pay for the privilege of helping the BBC to destroy the open web, and possibly harming open source along the way

Featured Comments

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Blogs

Reading Shakespeare: the Next Act of Open Data

As readers of this blog will have noticed, much of the most innovative work in the field of openness is taking place in open data. One of the largest stores of data is held by government, and the argument for...read more »

Approaching the cyberwar precipice

Can governments resolve the uncertainties quickly enough?read more »

The Spreadsheet and BYOD anarchy

Rekindling the revolutionary fervour of ITread more »

Why We Need Open Source: Three Cautionary Tales

Open Enterprise mostly writes about "obvious" applications of open source - situations where money can be saved, or control regained, by shifting from proprietary to open code. That battle is more or less won: free software is widely recognised as...read more »

Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight Against the Blind?

One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a global treaty that would make it easier for the blind and visually impaired to read books in format like...read more »

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