IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 2-10-2008

1. Tories outline plans for IT

2. Microsoft licence study shows SME risks

3. Santander’s Partenon to pay-off amid consolidation

4. HSBC starts unified communications trial with Nortel

5. Get a grip on datacentre power and cooling costs

6. Harlaxton College deploys IP network to cope with student numbers

7. Cameron attacks government NHS IT and management consultants

8. Hewlett-Packard boosts SME storage and virtualisation offering after grabbing LeftHand for £200m

9. Interview- Steve Ballmer on where Microsoft will go next

10. Revealed- Internet and phone are media of choice for fraudsters

11. Sensitive computer disks handed back to hospital after security alert

12. Microsoft to develop 'Windows for the cloud'

13. Logica appoints new CIO to help integrate business

14. Microsoft aims to train thousands of IT professionals in virtualisation

15. BT develops ‘I-Plate’ socket device to speed user broadband connections

16. Allianz Insurance improves service to brokers with new SOA platform

17. Tories slam ‘creeping growth of surveillance society’

18. Information Commissioner's Office forces Virgin to encrypt portable devices

19. Conservative Conference- IT apprentices to be offered scholarships