Nokia boss calls the bottom of the mobile market
Nokia's first quarter results of the year show a steepening drop in sales and a near-vertical...
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PC ownership rises to 70% in UK
PC ownership has hit 70% in the UK and just shy of half of all online teenagers are on social networking sites according to the latest figures from the Office...
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Opinion: The unanticipated consequences of BBC Click's botnet crime
After I described the actions of BBC Click’s production team in broadcasting their botnet special as “irresponsible, unethical, and almost certainly illegal†(ComputerWeekly 17 March 2009) I heard more than a few questions.
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Sun introduces supercomputing blade system
Sun has introduced a family of integrated servers, storage and networking for high performance computing. The product can be configured for supercomputing...
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Intel says worst of downturn is over after poor Q1 results
Chip manufacturer Intel says the personal computer...
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Sun may sell to IBM if it commits to a deal
Sun Microsystems would be open to continue talks with IBM over a merger if the latter makes a commitment to complete a deal. According to a Bloomberg...
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Government's basic mistake in report on آ£7bn IT scheme
The government has declined to comment on a basic mistake it has made in an official report on a آ£7bn defence IT project. A "Treasury Minutes" report...
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Jericho Forum: Security heads need cloud security
Independent security expert group Jericho Forum has published a paper that outlines the areas businesses need to consider when evaluating a cloud computing environment. ...
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Oracle database at risk from easy hack, warns database security expert
Oracle users have been urged to update the database patches Oracle issued yesterday as quickly as possible, because the flaw can be easily exploited, a database...
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Eyeballs in the Sky Turn Table on Big Brother
An Orwellian nightmare it may be to many of us, but CCTV is a boat full of holes to the organisations that pay for it.
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Amazon blocks Phorm
Online retail giant Amazon has rejected using Phorm's Webwise service, which tracks users' activities online and sends them targeted, context-sensitive advertising.
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eBay acquires Korean e-commerce site
eBay is to acquire a majority stake in Korean e-commerce firm Gmarket, as it seeks to boost revenues and concentrate on its core business. Gmarket's...
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Cisco's John Chambers rules out bid for Sun
Speaking at an industry event in Korea, Cisco CEO John Chambers has ruled his firm out of a potential bid for Sun Microsystems after the supplier was jilted...
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McBride scandal exposes smear culture
One of Gordon Brown's ministers, Ed Miliband, said this week that the departure of Damian McBride should put an end to the e-mail smear scandal. But smearing is a cultural problem, as Computer Weekly discovered during Parliamentary debates in 2007 on the NHS's آ£12.7bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT].
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IBM, Sun and Oracle join EC in anti-monopoly case against Microsoft
A group of technology companies including IBM, Sun, Oracle and Nokia has joined the European Commission's case against Microsoft for anti-competitive practices. The...
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Google could spark quiet cloud revolution
Security is the top reason most businesses give for not considering cloud-based...
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Oracle patch clashes with Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Oracle has issued four critical patches just a day after Microsoft released its monthly Patch...
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Government should build on PCeU success
Pressure from businesses to set up a national e-crime unit to police hackers and virus writers was vindicated last week when the newly formed Police Central...
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Financial institutions bear most of phishing cost, survey shows
Banks, online payment organisations and other financial...
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Twitter hacks simple XSS attacks, says security firm
Twitter's vulnerability to basic cross-site...
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Auditor rejects Tiscali accounts raising questions about its future
Tiscali, which has about three million UK broadband customers, has had its accounts qualified by its auditor.
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UBS to cut thousands of jobs
Swiss bank UBS will cut about 10,000 jobs to save up to آ£2.3bn by the end of next year with more highly skilled IT workers to flood onto a finance sector...
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Online auction house eBay to list Skype in 2010
Days after Skype became the world's biggest...
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IT security concerns will drive spending, survey finds
More than half (55%) ofIT...
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DNA pioneer: Innocents should be removed from database
A leading DNA scientist whose work led to the creation of the DNA database has called for innocent people to be removed from it. Alec Jeffreys, the...
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Will Satyam's new owner reassure customers?
The fire sale of troubled IT service provider Satyam has provided some relief to customers but will the new owner be seen as a good long term partner?
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Infosec 2009: Dorey presses for scientific approach
Business must take a more scientific approach to IT security, or they could open themselves up to serious data breaches,according to Paul Dorey, chairman of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP).
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Microsoft patch Tuesday update raises compatability issues
Microsoft's latest security patch update, issued yesterday, includes five critical security fixes, of which three require the user to reboot their PC. One...
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Most data breaches avoidable, study finds
Cyber-criminals stole more information in 2008 than in the previous four years combined, according to a study published today. Most attacks (93%) targeted...
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