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October 31
- Happy 20th birthday to the internet worm!
- O2 moves to restore mobile broadband confidence
- Week in Review: Move over Vista, Windows 7 is in the works
- Google guarantees cloud reliability
- Google adds some shine to Chrome
- BlackBerry Flip lands on O2
- Motorola warns on poor Q4 results
October 30
- Analysis: Data is the ‘toxic pollution’ of the information age
- Number of IT jobs advertised falls
- AMD presents green face to the world
- Public Sector Roundup: Healthcare advances
- Online fraud in the UK grows by 20 per cent
- SOA keeps CERN lights on
- Outsourcing trends adapt to economic climate
- Malware attacks costing $125,000 a month
- HannsG gets tough with monitors
- First Google phone now on sale
- Windows Azure unmasked
October 29
- Do SMBs need IT help?
- Energy Bill ushers in smart meters
- EU takes stock of public networks
- HP adds to its netbook range
- SNW Europe: Fujitsu Siemens tackles email overload
- Asus Android phone in the pipeline
- ICO reveals even more data breaches
- Kids bypass school internet security controls
- Photos: Windows 7 new features and interface
- Online grocery shopping gets the Tesco API treatment
- BBC set for iPlayer overhaul
October 28
- Windows 7 sounds death knell for Vista
- RSA Europe: The growth of the underground hacker ‘economy’
- Dell announces new business desktops, services
- Security hole in first Google Android phone
- Microsoft's PDC: All the news
- RSA Europe: Emerging markets' IT talent turning to cybercrime
- Motorway comms project over budget and past deadline
- New Ubuntu desktop and server versions ready this week
- Teens turning to e-crime?
- Windows 7 live blogging from Microsoft PDC
- Dot Net analyses Wikipedia in the cloud
- Microsoft gets ready for Paris
October 27
- Microsoft unveils Azure cloud computing platform
- RSA Europe: Photos and news
- RSA Europe: Microsoft praises UK e-crime unit
- Google Earth comes to iPhone
- HTC expects to sell 600,000 Android phones this year
- RSA Europe: Innovation is the way out of the ‘economic hole’
- RSA Europe: London tops New York and Paris in wireless access
- Personalisation is key to future mobile success
- Government: No e-voting next year
- 12in Dell netbook gets Japan launch
- Police get mobile fingerprint scanners
- Social networking for tube rage
- Live blogging from the Microsoft PDC Keynote
October 24
- Rackspace gets cloudier
- 50 million mobiles waiting to be recycled
- Google launches Gmail for mobile 2.0
- Microsoft rushed out patch to prevent ‘worm’ exploit
- Week in Review: The death of Oyster and the ‘free’ laptop bonanza
- NHS missing e-booking targets
- Survey: Firms lack information governance
October 23
- TMG develops news app for Google Android
- Open source Linux worth billions, Microsoft warned
- McAfee partners with tech industry big shots
- Sun founder and architect quits
- Recession influences search trends
- London’s Oyster card may be replaced
- IP firm digitises documentation
- Google gets live traffic information from Highways Agency
- SAP survey finds UK SOA ignorance
October 22
- Yahoo cuts jobs after poor results
- Photos: Toshiba's new laptop range
- VMware freezes hiring, offers gloomy outlook
- Microsoft declares war against pirates, angers China
- Portsmouth University updates wireless management
- SanDisk uses McAfee anti-malware on flash drives
- Office suites to lead SaaS growth
- BCS calls for power restraint
- iPhone and Mac sales boost Apple results
- Business ‘black hole’ in virtualisation security
- Free laptops to spark mobile broadband growth
- Boffins think small over phones and gadgets
- O2 makes mobile web more like the desktop
- Google sets Android source code free
- Photos: Samsung's i7110
October 21
- IT faces changes from economic pressures
- Photos: Smartphone Show 2008 - From the show floor
- Computer for every child programme kicks off
- HP to double renewable power use by 2012
- ICO: Databases never ‘risk free’
- Smartphone Show 2008: Motorola predicts a whole new (open) world
- CPP Group masters data management
- Smartphone Show 2008: Developers urged to ‘handshake’ with Symbian code
- Keyboard emissions sniffed from 20 metres
- Smartphone Show 2008: Free love for Symbian developers
- Photos: 3's Mobile Broadband Router
- CV personal details can lead to ID theft
- Government wastes £274 million on defunct IT projects
- Survey reveals the dangers of mobile email
- Symbian banking on open source success
October 20
- Toshiba shores up SanDisk with $1 billion buy
- Alcatel-Lucent and McAfee tout wireless laptop encryption
- Flexible working delays slammed
- Samsung unveils next Symbian smartphone
- PAYG mobiles to join government database?
- Adobe website suffers SQL injection attack
- Mozilla unleashes Firefox Mobile alpha
- SAP asks for TomorrowNow lawsuit limits
- BT offers free mobile broadband to SMBs
- French president’s bank account hacked
October 17
- IT makers ‘green’ up manufacturing act
- BT announces cheaper Wi-Fi tariffs
- Results Roundup: Google, IBM, AMD and more
- IDC confirms netbook sales surge
- Global credit card fraud forum busted by police
- Week in Review: Could Elbot fool you?
- Skills gap could hit public services
October 16
- Lifesize upscales video conferencing to 1080p
- Photos: Google’s Royal appointment
- Photos: Apricot returns with netbook
- Photos: Apple's new-look MacBook Pro
- Blast from the past as Apricot returns
- Intel enhances Ethernet possibilities
- Toshiba expands business notebook lines
- Oracle follows Microsoft with major security patches
- Android phone arrives in two weeks
- Analyst warns on e-voting confidence
- Survey: IT recruiters research digital personas
- Nokia Siemens starts shipping out 4G tech
- Cisco rents out video conferencing rooms
- Orange and HP in netbook pact
- Analysis: Nokia faces off with Apple iTunes
October 15
- Storage Expo: EMC butterflies from storage to info management
- Terrorist suspects forced to hand over encryption keys
- Government defends - and criticises - comms database plans
- Storage Expo news roundup
- Teachers need to use more tech
- IT security spending to rise despite recession
- Major internet security suites are vulnerable
- Storage Expo: North Wiltshire shows its BakBone
- The Storm botnet is finally dead – but what's next?
- Novell buys Managed Objects
- Opera develops search engine for web developers
- Netbooks help Acer top HP in European sales
- Intel posts 12 per cent profit jump
October 14
- Cybercriminals exploiting 'the human' to steal data
- Survey: SMBs ready to embrace cloud savings
- Microsoft's next OS keeps Windows 7 name
- Debenhams trials touch screens in new store
- Timeline: McKinnon’s desperate fight to avoid US justice
- Hackers spam fake Microsoft security update
- Spam downs Virgin Media email
- ONStor unveils new Cougar NAS gateways
- Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
- Specsavers signs store IT framework deal
- Apple's MacBook launch beset by leaks
- New US anti-piracy bill becomes law
- Google and Yahoo could face antitrust suit
October 13
- Credit crunch moves business to adopt open source
- Boffins near to perfecting human/robot communication
- Public Sector Roundup: Internet reduces government’s costs
- SAP customers still see price hikes as raw deal
- BT reveal first sites for fibre-optic broadband
- BSkyB staff details on Deloitte stolen laptop
- OpenOffice 3.0 now available for download
- Apple riding out the coming turbulence with new laptops
October 10
- Software problems hit BlackBerry Bold
- Firefox goes geo-loco
- UK DNA database biggest in world
- Microsoft to issue 11 patches next Tuesday
- Morrisons buys queue-busting camera system
- Insiders the biggest data security threat
- Another MoD disc goes missing
- Week in Review: Google and the problem of the drunken email
- Apple sets date for new MacBooks
October 9
- 3 berates mobile regulation
- Researchers show off 'unbreakable' quantum encryption
- Genome project reduces storage requirements
- Scotmid takes back office infrastructure virtual
- HP to cut over 3,300 UK jobs
- IBM impresses market with earnings boost
- UK reveals role in European identity scheme
- Superconducting film key to next-gen electronics
- IT security sector facing major upheaval in 2009
- EC moves to protect online shoppers
- Wi-Fi integration is cutting the cost of calling
October 8
- IT managers struggling to combat consumer technology
- Opera releases 9.6 web browser
- Wikis are the future, but must be secure
- Symantec buys MessageLabs for $695 million
- TomorrowNow lawsuit mediation fails
- London Underground police radio system goes live
- Gmail’s Goggles stop drunken e-mails
- SMBs lagging behind on enterprise security
- The Body Shop safeguards credit card info
- Emergency text service for deaf expands
- Photos: RIM's BlackBerry Storm
- RIM sets autumn release for BlackBerry Storm
October 7
- EC calls for urgent business adoption of IPv6
- AMD confirms break-up plans
- IT pros shirking green responsibilities
- Bolton man could face 15 years for US hack attacks
- More UK businesses jump on broadband super highway
- UPDATED: Oyster card hack is published
- Virgin overtakes O2 for download speeds?
- iPhone winning US market share
- AMD set to announce factory sell-off
- UK heads EU phishing league
October 6
- SAP shares drop on falling business
- Data de-duplication is hot topic for Storage Expo
- IBM joins the cloud computing crowd
- Orange goes green with phone ratings
- Government to spy on email using £12bn database
- Tech distractions may help decision makers think
- Service management pros confident despite downturn
- Unified comms enhances council service
- SaaS will benefit from virtualisation growth
October 3
- CERN shows off LHC Grid
- HSBC launches unified comms pilot
- MI5 computer stolen through window
- Royal Mail gets itself a CoPilot
- Survey: Mobile workers regularly breach IT policy
- Week in Review: Cloudy times for Microsoft
- Facebook heads for the Emerald Isle
- Nokia reveals touchscreen 'Tube' phone
October 2
- Google index release highlights web trends
- Data centre energy use jumps 13 per cent
- Businesses backing away from innovation due to risk
- The Cloud goes for European land grab
- Amazon takes Microsoft to the cloud
- HP snaps up LeftHand Networks
- Criminal gangs placing moles in banks to steal data
- Microsoft boosts search investment in Europe
- Fujitsu considering options for hard disk business
October 1
- Seagate and Acer team up on beefy notebooks
- Monthly round-up: September
- Ballmer: Microsoft to launch Cloud OS
- ICO raps Virgin Media for data breach
- Orange offers small businesses free broadband
- New e-crime unit finally gets funding
- ABC overhauls key systems
- BT to boost broadband speeds with I-Plate
- Virgin launches mobile broadband
- Survey exposes risky employee behaviour
- Iron Man movie to be pre-installed on new PCs