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Broadband speed frustration on the rise

Broadband speed frustration on the rise

An increasing number of broadband users in Britain are unhappy with their connection speed, a new survey says.

Tories: We’ll open the market for government IT contracts

Tories: We’ll open the market for government IT contracts

The Conservative Party has promised to open up the market for government IT contracts to more suppliers.

‘Cavalier’ GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops

‘Cavalier’ GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops

GCHQ lost 35 laptops in seven months last year, potentially containing highly sensitive data.

Microsoft targets NetSuite users with new deal

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.

British Airways IT worker charged for 'terrorism plot'

British Airways IT worker charged for 'terrorism plot'

A British Airways software developer planned to carry out terrorist attacks by taking advantage of a walkout by airline staff, a court heard today.

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Intel launches six core Gulftown Core i7 chip

Intel launches six core Gulftown Core i7 chip

Intel showed off its first six-core processor for desktops, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, which will go into workstations and enthusiast PCs targeted at gamers.

CA buys Nimsoft for $350m

CA inks a deal to acquire for $350 million Nimsoft, an IT service management player with customers in the managed service provider market.

Job prospects boosted by Microsoft, Cisco and CompTIA training

IT professionals with certain IT certifications could make bank compared to counterparts, according to a study of 17,000 high tech workers conducted by Dice Learning.

Morrison boosts IT investment by £200 million

Morrison boosts IT investment by £200 million

WM Morrison is planning to invest a further £200 million in rejuvenating its IT systems over the next three years.

Google stays ahead of Microsoft Bing

Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to grow slowly, but remains far behind Google, which has maintained its 70%-plus share of the market in recent months.

Bill Gates loses world’s richest man title

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

HMRC IT delays leave 35 million unprocessed tax cases

HMRC IT delays leave 35 million unprocessed tax cases

HM Revenue & Customs has queued 35 million tax cases for manual processing, directly as a result of severe delays to a new IT system rollout.

Launch of National Skills Academy for IT website

Launch of National Skills Academy for IT website

The new National Skills Academy for IT, which aims to address the development of IT professionals in the UK, has launched its website.

IT spending 'not on the rebound'

The "vast majority" of IT budgets will not grow this year, said analyst house Ovum.

Trademarks and security delay domain changes at ICANN meeting

Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.

Procter and Gamble to let employees use own laptops

Procter & Gamble (P&G), which is ranked 20th on the Fortune 500 list, can afford to buy its employees laptops. But it is instead letting several hundred of its workers use their own laptops as part of a workplace experiment.

Europe debates controversial ACTA copyright treaty

European Parliamentarians are set to debate whether to formally oppose an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the European Commission with trading partners including the US, Canada and Japan.

Standard Life targets £350m efficiency gain with IT

Standard Life has raised its cost cutting targets by nearly half to £350 million by 2012, as it reported strong progress on a technology and process overhaul.

Microsoft researcher and Alto creator wins Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. Thacker, for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer.

Google unveils Apps software store

Google unveils Apps software store

Google has launched Google Apps Marketplace, a site designed to provide a venue for third-party applications for Google users.

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