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February 28
- February's top five IT security threats
- IT PRO Monthly Roundup: February
February 27
- Facebook involves users in T&Cs
- Google finally joins the Twitter revolution
- BBC taps former Yahoo talent
- Week in Review: Gmail fails, the world winces
- Bartz unveils new Yahoo structure
- Video: Cloud computing's dirty secret
- Video: What's next for virtualisation?
February 26
- Time to Bring Your Own PC?
- Oxford University Press slashes order fulfilment costs
- Microsoft shipping SP2 RC2 for Vista and Windows Server
- CPS will not prosecute McKinnon in UK
- Novell and VMware team up on Linux
- Cisco not buying RIM, hints chief exec
- Digital Britain: Government to “get out of the way”
- DWP confirms ID data breaches
- More trouble for Gmail as phishers attack
February 25
- Experts ponder future of workplace biometrics
- Government falls in love with open source
- Brits go back to basics with mobile phones
- Twitter first to report on aircraft crash
- Virgin Media’s financial results show losses
- Microsoft details survival plans
- Google adds weight to Microsoft anti-trust battle
- Opera mobile web use sees large UK growth
- Video: Two operating systems on one phone
- Should Jack Straw use Hotmail for gov business?
- Children’s hospital shores up patient records
- VMware demos mobile virtualisation
- Gmail knocked offline due to “overloaded data centres”
February 24
- Video: VMware and Intel explain virtual desktops
- Social networking in danger of infantilising the mind
- VMware continues virtual desktop push with Intel
- Virgin Games rolls out new customer management tools
- EU investigates criminals targeting Skype calls
- Adobe PDF flaw gets homebrewed patch
- VMware aims for ‘software mainframe’ with vSphere
- Notts Trent University to overhaul IT infrastructure
- Gmail service takes a break
- Facebook users faced with ‘Error Check System’ app
- The "Karmic Koala" - new Ubuntu gets redesign
- Gary McKinnon supported by anti-terror law watchdog
- BenQ and UMID unveil minute PCs
February 23
- VMworld Europe 2009 roundup
- Virtualisation fans warned on security
- EMC turns to flash for enterprise storage
- Cybercrime: The challenges of the Police Central e-crime Unit
- Mini 10 joins Dell Inspiron netbook family
- Microsoft asks redundant workers for a refund
- SAP looks to boost SMB focus
- Microsoft confident against virtualisation rival VMware
- Twitter trials real-time search in user accounts
- Government advertises for £120k internet manager
- ISPs covering 750,000 users ‘don’t block child porn’
- Tribunal orders ID card reviews to be published
- Citrix sets XenServer free
- Microsoft wants to boost tech training
- SMBs not taking to the web
February 20
- Researchers find new variant of Conficker worm
- ‘Sexy view’ worm takes first step towards mobile botnets
- Orange customer wins court payout over coverage
- Adobe Reader and Acrobat PDFs not safe until March
- UK firms suffering from next-gen comms complexity
- Week in Review: Barcelona to Washington and back
- ICO again criticises government data sharing
- IT not a stressful job?
- Week in Numbers: IP addresses running low
February 19
- Gateway returns to UK as business brand
- Accountancy firm upgrades to unified comms
- Cloud computing boosts security plans
- HP results rely on EDS, services
- Ryanair’s in-flight mobile goes live with O2
- Website danger as hacker breaks SSL encryption
- Five SaaS myths debunked
- Microsoft confirms Equipt kill date
- Analysis: Women in IT still hit glass ceiling
February 18
- Intel and Nvidia in licence spat
- Government warned to act before IP addresses run out
- MWC 09: First look at the HTC Touch Pro2
- Banks blamed as British lead the world on phishing
- Businesses continue to invest in online marketing
- MWC 09: First look at the HTC Magic
- Mozilla’s Fennec mobile browser ‘basically useless’
- Dell launches download store
- Unpatched machines targeted by IE 7 attacks
- MWC 09: Samsung confirms three Android launches
- Toshiba buys Fujitsu HDD business
- Privacy concerns force Facebook terms reversal
February 17
- Policing tech could be delayed
- Staffs Police cuts red tape with mobile training
- Red Hat, Microsoft tie up interoperability deal
- MWC 09: Nokia phones to feature preinstalled Skype
- MWC 09: ARM reveals 32nm processor
- MWC 09: Vodafone's Google phone dubbed HTC Magic
- How to prevent insiders destroying your network
- MWC 09: Industry unites for universal mobile charger
- MWC 09: Acer gets 'serious' with smartphones
- Netbooks continue to sustain PC market
- MWC 09: Gates' cash means mobile payments for all
- Businesses don’t trust workers out of the office
February 16
- MWC 09: Nokia's new app store and E-series devices
- Apple criticised as it patches 50 flaws
- UK IT firm helps navy take on Somalian pirates
- MWC 09: Vodafone gets customised Opera
- MWC 09: Intel and LG go MID
- MWC 09: Samsung's touch screen downturn strategy
- MWC 09: Microsoft launches Windows Marketplace
- MWC 09: Mobile companies fear insecure handsets
- Pirated software costs firms £16 million
- Europe’s largest Arts uni halves support calls
- Developers to charge for Google Android apps
- MWC 09: Vodafone’s new handsets for all markets
February 15
- MWC 09: Sony Ericsson's revamp, Idou and W995
- MWC 09: Orange and HP's mobile broadband tag team
February 14
- Today in history: Alexander Graham Bell’s phone patent
February 13
- Mobile World Congress 2009 roundup
- Top Mobile World Congress rumours
- Security budgets rise despite recession
- Outlook finally gets friendly with Firefox
- Week in Review: Keeping the internet safe for kids
- Lufthansa bolsters e-commerce model
- Microsoft offers $250,000 Conficker bounty
- Opera Turbo promises web page speed boost
- Third security vendor in F-Secure hit by hackers
- Week in Numbers: Silent discos and data breaches
- Royal website to let watchers follow Queen
- Microsoft to hit the high-street with stores
February 12
- Analysis: How chip and PIN led to contactless cards
- Web 2.0 doesn't boost productivity, security
- Valentine's Day is for cards, flowers and a lot of spam
- Space collision takes out Iridium satellite
- Microsoft takes on spam-spewing botnet
- RIM: BlackBerrys can replace desk phones
- BT profit falls as Global Services weighs
- RIM confirms Argon server release
February 11
- Lord Carter begins universal broadband negotiations
- Internet should be 'Wild West', not 'Digital Somalia'
- Microsoft celebrates 10,000 patent milestone
- Mobile connections top four billion worldwide
- HP sends out LaserJet printer patch alert
- Microsoft patch tackles SQL bug
- LG cuts costs to stay up in downturn
- Nokia to cut production
February 10
- Intel reveals ‘Westmere’ processor roadmap
- Businesses to be charged for using Twitter?
- Intel to invest $7 billion in 32nm plants
- Staples boosts IT change compliance
- E.ON consolidates data centres with tracking
- Quick fixes top recession-hit storage agenda
- Mozilla not too keen on IE-esque dominance
- Management tech cuts PC energy consumption
- Video: Google and Microsoft in smartphone sync
- Schoolchildren benefit from Safer Internet Day
February 9
- Reported data breaches on the increase
- OpenDNS and Kaspersky team up to block Conficker
- BT serves up free Wi-Fi hotspots for businesses
- Samsung's NC20 netbook gets pre-order green light
- Kaspersky's US website hacked
- FCUK paves way for US anti-fraud tech rollout
- MySQL boss leaves Sun
- AMD extends Dragon family with new Phenom II CPUs
- Lloyds Banking Group warns of new phishing attacks
- Microsoft syncs Windows Mobile devices
February 6
- What's next in the world of tech?
- Week in Numbers: Snow, sales and social networks
- Week in Review: How the snow broke Britain
- Royal Bank of Scotland’s Worldpay hit by ATM scam
- Open source data integration on the rise
- Lords criticise surveillance plans
- Acer branded DX900 smartphone on its way
- Microsoft to offer four patches next week
- HP dispensing with Linux on netbooks
- Microsoft introduces "Fix it" button
February 5
- New 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro delayed
- Social networking to drive internet maturity
- Removing 'admin' mitigates most Windows flaws
- Five business uses for Google’s Latitude
- Polycom looks to lower cost of video conferencing
- Sainsbury’s continues web-based management
February 4
- SAP goes modular with latest Business Suite version
- VMware takes desktop virtualisation open source
- Sophos hits back at ‘scaremongering’ accusations
- Windows 7 to come in six versions
- SMBs benefit from BT and Opal broadband price war
- Toshiba attacks smartphone market with TG01
- Happy 5th birthday Facebook
February 3
- Stephen Fry crowned ‘Vice President of Twitter’
- Your Views: Snowy workarounds
- Skype hits version 4
- FOI requests reveal security training gaps
- Landrush starts for .tel domains
- IBM: Websites are 'Achilles' heel' of business security
- Gartner says cloud computing needs to mature
- Users falling in love with smartphones, says analyst
- Juniper launches “monster” 25Tbps router
- Poor anti-virus left ‘back door’ for hospital attack
- Netbooks keep PC sales out of decline
- Motorola kicks off UK LTE trial
February 2
- Snow throws spotlight on business continuity plans
- Woolworths back from dead in online-only reincarnation
- Samsung 4Gb modules deliver server power savings
- Monthly Roundup: Yahoo's leader, Windows 7's lead
- Week in Numbers: Job cuts and Monster data breaches
- Top secret Zumba phone could boost comms
- Weak passwords leave British open to cybercrime
- Salary trumps culture for IT pros
- Mac OS X and Microsoft's betas gain market share
- Phones 4U signs £70 million outsourcing deal
- Next version of Windows 7 will be Release Candidate