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November 30
- Report rubbishes latest Microsoft-Yahoo rumour
- Monthly Roundup: November
November 28
- Blackberry Storm fixes on the way
- Week in Review: Foreigners - get your ID cards
- NHS Trusts sign up for e-catalogues
- Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone shipping
November 27
- Mobile fingerprinting to rollout by next year?
- Orange to launch HD voice in 2009
- Pret to roll out contactless payments
- Cellcrypt brings call encryption to Windows Mobile
- Data mining boosts Jaeger profits
- Study: Phishing surges 240 per cent
- Employees the weak link in financial sector security
- UK will not get data breach notification law
- Video: Eugene Kaspersky outlines security threats
- Job seekers turn to social networks
- Touch screens driving mobile app growth
- EU mobile roaming price caps to be extended
- Nokia quits Japan
November 26
- Lenovo releases IdeaPad S10e netbook
- Budget cuts attract SaaS interest
- Less than half of obsolete PCs are recycled
- Government urged to prioritise high-speed broadband
- Text messages to ‘break’ stolen laptops
- ICO urges ‘Privacy by Design’
- Twitter rejects Facebook offer
- HTC doubles Android shipment estimates
- Video: Five life-changing innovations
- Samsung unveils high performance, lower power SSDs
November 25
- Fujitsu Siemens launches free laptop for life initiative
- Facebook spammer ordered to pay millions in damages
- Skipton acts on ICO warning
- Opera Mini 4.2 released
- SCO owes Novell: final ruling
- Speed of mobile internet draws younger audience
- Gartner: Mobile phone growth slipping
- Data watchdog finally gets new powers
- First ID cards go to foreign nationals
November 24
- Green-powered data farm to be built
- Greenpeace slams PC makers green credentials
- Thames Water doubles contact centre efficiency
- IBM and academia work on human brain simulation
- Online fraud worth billions of pounds
- US teens lag behind Britain in internet use
November 21
- NHS project tops FileMaker Awards
- Department of Health tops lost laptop rankings
- Zavvi improves website tech for Christmas
- ID card update reveals £30 price, fines for bad data
- BCS supports data centre code of conduct
- Lloyd’s insurer is first non-US Microsoft EBS user
- Update: Hospitals still recovering from computer virus
- T-Mobile unveils mobile broadband share dock
- Week in Review: Viruses targeting our hospitals
- Dell follows HP with upbeat earnings
- Google to shut down Lively virtual world site
November 20
- Vodafone expects BlackBerry Storm to sell out
- Green IT all about the bottom line
- IBM and Nokia add Notes email to phones
- Jocks look to inspire geeks
- Mobile web taking over in Asia
- BBC to live stream main TV channels
- Virtual worlds open to malware and identity theft
- Blackberry Javelin gets release date
- We definitely won't buy Yahoo, says Microsoft
November 19
- Liberata axed from school grant contract
- Photos: Violet's internet of things
- Public Sector Roundup: Smart tech upgrades
- Could security learn from the World of Warcraft?
- Microsoft to offer SharePoint and Exchange online
- TfL’s Oyster gets new contract
- Photos: HP gets touchly-feely with laptop
- Toshiba touts lower power 500GB 2.5in drive
- Mobile networks hit by battery-hungry phones
- HP beats gloom with earnings jump
- IBM eyes up Transitive buy
November 18
- Veeam unveils Configurator update for VMware ESX
- Criminals hit back with DDoS attack on anti-fraud site
- Virus shuts down systems at three London hospitals
- AVG mistakes Adobe file for malware
- NEC and nVidia team on supercomputing
- Google Voice Search for iPhone arrives
- Roadrunner still world’s top supercomputer
- Symantec’s chief exec retires
- BT denies fibre broadband delay
- Amazon connects cloud services
- Cambridge dons new wireless network
- ThinkGrid launches ‘on-demand’ services
- CA World: CA unifies service desk
November 17
- Cyber criminals can make £14,500 per person
- UBS 3.0 specs released
- Flash support coming to Windows Mobile
- Asus claims world’s fastest smartphone
- Obama to lose his BlackBerry?
- EMC creates cloudy backup firm
- I-Ball technology to give troops eye on the ground
- Gartner: 85 per cent of firms use open source
- Voice-activated Google search for iPhone MIA
- Carphone ponders TalkTalk sell-off
- ARM gets flashy with Adobe
- Survey: SharePoint creating security weak point
- CA World: CA launches SaaS business unit
November 16
- CA World: Virtualisation the future of data centres
- CA World: Tech aids prevention in healthcare
November 14
- Councils boost address data accuracy
- The business of hacking your Facebook account
- AMD gives smartphones the cold shoulder, plans netbook
- Samsung B130 becomes UK’s cheapest phone for a fiver
- Week in Review: Dealing with the internet George Agdgdgwngos
- IBM brings AMD’s Shanghai to Opteron servers
- Capita wins £60 million NHS web contract
- US ISP’s set to battle net neutrality bill
November 13
- Worldwide spam spewing server taken down
- Five biometric technologies businesses could use
- 3 unveils INQ 1 Facebook phone
- Telecos should partner with Google
- Mini 7in DisplayLink USB monitors introduced
- BCS: Women disappearing from IT
- BT to cut 10,000 jobs
- Verizon sets date and pricing for Blackberry Storm
- Intel alarms markets with earnings cut
- New Windows Live will unify web services
- Dell CTO quits
- Google adds on-demand updates to Site Search
- AMD unveils 'Shanghai' Opteron
November 12
- Microsoft announces server support for SMBs
- AVG anti-virus stopped Windows XP from booting
- Nortel cuts 1,300 more jobs
- BlackBerry Bold gets Missing Sync for Mac support
- Patch Tuesday fixes “Dead Cow Cult” exploit
- Video: Gmail adds voice and video chat
- Photos: Nokia releases mass market E63
- Acer tops HP in European PC sales
- OLPC’s XO laptop comes to Europe
- BBC website hit by Denial of Service attack
- Flexible working could save staff £500 a year
- Support price hikes will put pressure on SAP users
November 11
- Nokia studies traffic with GPS-enabled mobiles
- Five ways businesses can improve by social networking
- New router from Cisco claims fast web speeds
- Enterprises eye open source and Web 2.0
- Opera Mini 4.2 beta unveiled
- Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac released
- One in four servers unpatched for Kaminsky flaw
- Report calls for handhelds for all police officers
- Nigerian scammers ditch email for Facebook
- Visa tests cards with built in PIN machine
November 10
- iPhone twice as reliable as BlackBerry
- Sun and Microsoft sign search deal
- VMware virtualises mobile phones
- Security body calls for data collection changes
- Researchers hijack Storm botnet for spam study
- Hydrogen fuel cell to provide office power
- Public Sector Roundup: Tech spreads information
- DNS inventor tackles flaw
- IT illiteracy hinders productivity
- O2 Xda Zest launches on PAYG
- Survey: Critical infrastructure risks cyber attack
- Cable & Wireless halts demerger plan
- Spending online to jump 15 per cent
November 9
- Microsoft reveals Windows Server 2008 R2
November 7
- Microsoft prepares for 'calm' Patch Tuesday
- Photos: Virgin's 50Mb broadband modem
- iPhone ‘tethering’ on its way in US
- Timeline: How National ID cards have become a reality
- Week in Review: BlackBerry in the eye of the 'Storm'
- SMBs value IT, but wait to upgrade
- UK firm wins global SMB award
- US wireless internet to get faster, cheaper
- Nokia loses share to Apple and RIM
- Virgin Media adds 8,300 customers
November 6
- Bletchley Park wins £330,000 lifeline
- SanDisk: SSDs to get 100x faster
- National ID cards: First two airports sign up
- Wi-Fi WPA encryption partially cracked
- WinHEC: The unique advantage of the PC is choice
- AMD cuts 500 jobs
November 5
- Firefox fights back against Chrome
- US ‘white-space’ wireless spectrum opened up
- Five ways to improve your broadband connection
- Centrix launches WorkSpace 3 digital workspace
- Asus launches touch screen PC
- Seagate is aiming to 'enterprise' your home
- Adobe PDF Reader patched due to critical flaws
- Coolafone launches to offer gifts for old mobiles
- Did you win our reader survey laptop?
November 4
- Siemens to sell PC stake to Fujitsu
- Seagate releases “fastest and greenest” drive
- NetSuite revenues rise again
- Google patches Android flaw
- Vodafone launches compact broadband dongle
- Photos: Nokia releases seven phones for emerging markets
- Nokia to cut 615 jobs
- iPhone production to be cut, says analyst
- Analysis: Silicon Valley looks to election to lift economic gloom
November 3
- Hi-tech crime rates rise
- NetSuite targets SAP users with deep discounts
- Monthly roundup: October
- Politicians want McKinnon to serve time in UK
- BT Global Services CEO steps down
- Asus: Netbooks to get even cheaper in 2009
- Dell sued over sex discrimination
- 3 unveils mobile broadband for small businesses
- Virgin tempts users with £5 mobile broadband
- Government USB lost in pub car park
- IBM sues exec to keep him away from Apple