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July 31
- Fix for the iPhone flaw coming this weekend
- Reviews Round-Up: Acer smartphone woe
- Smartphones only bright spot as mobile sales decline
- Wikipedia site recovers from crash
- Internet subscribers ditch mobile companies
- Firefox heads to a billion downloads
- Apple beefs up its Time Capsule to 2TB
- Week in Review: Microsoft buddies up with Yahoo
July 30
- Greenpeace shames HP in rooftop protest
- Intel plans quick Windows 7 rollout
- Zombie increase drives spam spike
- WiMAX subscribers could top 50 million by 2014
- Is Microsoft the winner in the Yahoo deal?
- Codegate targets SMEs with low-cost mobile data capture solution
- BT revenues still held back by Global Services
- Plant DNA barcoding project bears fruit
- Photos: ID cards for Brits
- MI5 website hacked
- Firefox 3.6 features unveiled
- Open source revenues on the rise, says IDC
July 29
- Dongle users don’t know their download limits
- Top 10 threats for IT security in 2011
- OECD: IT sector on road to recovery
- EU says yes to spectrum refarming
- Microsoft and Yahoo confirm search deal
- Strong profits for SAP, despite software failings
- Timeline: The saga of Microsoft and Yahoo
- Microsoft to extend browser choice to Vista, XP
- Apple wins iPhone App Store ad battle
- London gets team of firefighting robots
July 28
- UK firms named in top software and services listing
- City Airport looks to networks in case of disaster
- Microsoft opens app store to developers
- Google gives up cut price stake in AOL
- Dell and AMD back on track with new desktops
- AMD unveils its fastest professional graphics card
- RIM unveils new BlackBerry web dev tools
- Over half a million credit card details exposed
- Google hits back at Tory NHS records slur
- T-Mobile’s G2 Touch now available in UK
- Blyk killed off in the UK
- Employees getting confused and offended by email
- Government given Twitter guide
- Virgin tops Ofcom's broadband speed study
July 27
- Fujitsu eyes pay-as-you-go infrastructure market
- RIM unveils BlackBerry Curve 8520
- More tablet rumours for Apple
- Western Digital unveils 1TB hard drive for laptops
- Juniper profits plunge in recession
- Ericsson wins bid for Nortel’s wireless assets
- Spotify heading to iPhone within weeks
- Photos: Atos Origin's Olympic IT plans
- Davis slams plans to move NHS records to Google
- Opera: Mobile web not just for smartphones
- Microsoft rushes to patch IE, Visual Studio
July 25
- Week in Numbers: Swine flu hits the web
July 24
- Acer unveils business notebooks and netbook
- More woes for O2 as roaming suffers glitch
- Blyk ditches consumer model for Vodafone?
- Lincoln gets city-wide Wi-Fi network
- Government's swine flu site taken down by demand
- Vodafone's sales drop but group revenue rises
- EMC beats analyst expectations, despite losses
- Reviews Round-Up: Sony netbook appears
- Week in Review: Microsoft finishes up
- SamKnows to test Virgin's super-fast broadband
- Spinvox fights back in voice message row
July 23
- Ericsson enters bidding battle for Nortel's assets
- VMware's profit sinks 38 per cent
- Most businesses overspend on wireless, says Gartner
- Consumers and SMBs lead in cloud adoption
- Adobe Flash hit by security flaw
- O2 to offer call forwarding service
- Hampshire gets £90 million fibre network
- Glimmer of hope in eBay's profits
- Spinvox uses people to translate voice to text
- Visa to text spenders for security
- Microsoft officially signs off Windows 7
July 22
- Hardware spend grows in emerging markets
- Microsoft not sure UK will get Windows 7 'Family Pack'
- Intel launches first 34nm SSD
- WiMAX isn’t dead – it’s just for business
- HSBC fined £3 million by FSA over data security
- Yahoo posts first profit rise in 15 months
- Losses hit AMD more heavily than expected
- More bidders tussle for Nortel’s assets
- Gordon Brown says tech has 'changed foreign policy'
- O2 network crashes - taking the iPhone with it
- Google to unveil Wave in September
- HTC Hero arrives on Orange
- IT Pros to get Windows 7 on 6 August
- Today in history: The birth of Windows Messenger
- Strong iPhone sales boost Apple's profit
July 21
- Mobile broadband isn’t speedy enough, says survey
- Online population to double by 2013
- Samsung invests $4 billion in green tech
- Negroponte blames OLPC woes on Sugar
- RIM unveils BlackBerry software for Macs
- Microsoft updates Office for Mac
- Apple and RIM dominate profit share
- Teachers to get £5.6 million for tech training
- T-Mobile on iPhone-buying shopping spree?
- Microsoft surprises with Linux code submission
- Nortel sells more assets
July 20
- Kingston unveils 256GB flash drive
- BT and Microsoft offer cloud services to enterprises
- Ruckus launches outdoor Wi-Fi systems
- Microsoft makes IE8 default choice a bit clearer
- 2009 worst year ever for graphics
- Nokia sells Symbian services arm to Accenture
- More Cisco jobs cuts?
- Sophos slams US for again topping spam ranking
- Government loses £24 million by scrapping IT project
- Data Domain unveils high-speed dedupe storage
- Intel's acquisition of Wind River now done deal
July 18
- Week in Numbers: McKinnon case rolls on
July 17
- Wikipedia fights back in Portrait Gallery row
- BT wins MoD communications contract
- Alcatel will launch 100Gb ethernet in 2010
- Your Views: Gary McKinnon
- HP launches 6Gb SAS drives
- Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day vulnerability
- Reviews Round-up: Office spruce-up
- Rumours suggest deal talks between Microsoft and Yahoo
- Week in Review: The battle for Gary McKinnon
- Google posts 'good' quarter
- IBM sales down in Europe
July 16
- Symbian to launch app development service
- Digital Britain must include mobile operators
- Pipes are pointless without digital participation
- SOCA cyber crime cops arrest 22 in three years
- Facebook releases virtual currency alpha
- Mobile broadband revenue to skyrocket, but not in Europe
- Conservatives lose Gary McKinnon extradition battle
- Government must embrace digital docs
- ICO raps five NHS trusts over data losses
July 15
- SMEs looking long and hard at business intelligence
- Critical JavaScript flaw hits Firefox 3.5
- Did Korean attacks come from the UK?
- Windows 7 pre-orders surpass Vista on Amazon
- UK awaiting HTC Hero's imminent arrival?
- SAP needs ‘thriving’ British businesses for success
- Virgin Media completes 50Mbps broadband roll-out
- Microsoft still UK's number one brand
- Sun’s revenue set to slide 30 per cent
- Oracle issues 30 security patches
- EU fine to hit Intel's profit
- Businesses need accurate data, but most don't have it
- Boffins tag rubbish in MIT experiment
- Microsoft patches ActiveX flaw
- Windows 7 demand knocks down Microsoft store
- O2 offers users free Twitter updates by text
- Apple’s App Store tops 1.5 billion downloads
July 14
- Facebook and Twitter aid mobile web momentum
- Need to Know: Windows Azure
- Conficker and Waledac botnet owners were partners
- Microsoft's Azure cloud to arrive by the end of the year
- Cable & Wireless to provide Virtual Court tech
- Enterprise apps can save money if worked harder
- Windows 7 to save the economy?
- IBM dominates the list of top 20 green supercomputers
- Netbook sales will double year on year
July 13
- Need to Know: Microsoft Silverlight 3
- Microsoft Office Web Components targeted by hackers
- Adobe not worried about Silverlight
- Microsoft unveils Office 2010 in technical preview
- Less than a third of businesses support iPhones
- Government puts ASBOs online
- Microsoft Dynamics to integrate Twitter
- Tim Berners-Lee calls for free web
- Mobile directory 118 800 still offline
- Datawind unveils new 3G PocketSurfer devices
- Illegal file sharing down as streaming services take over
- Green benefits to boost e-paper, says Gartner
July 11
- Week in Numbers: Korean cyber attacks
July 10
- EMC may confuse customers with acquisitions, says HP
- Cisco takes over Nortel’s 2012 contract
- Your Views: Google Chrome OS
- More than 8,000 computer viruses hit NHS last year
- Internet subscriptions rise in the recession
- Toshiba TG01: First Look review
- BT wants mobile operators to help pay for broadband
- How one NHS trust encrypted its data
- Reviews Round-up: The ultimate laptop?
- Microsoft knew about IE bug since last year
- Timeline: The Apple App Store's first year
- Week in Review: Watch out, Google OS is about!
- Google chief to deal with Google/Apple conflict
July 9
- Toshiba TG01 lands exclusively on Orange
- It should be Digital Britain - not ‘patchwork’ Britain
- BT names next towns to get super-fast broadband
- Will Digital Britain survive a change of government?
- Apple Safari patches against cross-site scripting attacks
- Flash price rise to hit SSD, says report
- Apple to top Nokia in smartphone market?
- Analysis: Is Google Chrome OS bad for Linux?
- Virgin Media not planning Phorm rollout
- EMC wins bidding battle for Data Domain
- Google reveals Chrome hardware partners
July 8
- Why is Google Chrome targeting netbooks?
- TalkTalk cuts contract with Phorm
- Twitter-style short URL spamming skyrockets
- SaaS not keeping customers happy, Gartner says
- Nortel releases latest Communications Server
- Ofcom maps show 3G 'notspots'
- 70 per cent of organisations hit by data breaches
- Cyber attack ‘knocked out' US government websites
- Taking mobile apps to the cloud will boost the market
- Logicalis wins £5.5 million deal with Leicestershire
- Google takes on Microsoft with open source Chrome OS
July 7
- Gmail and Google Apps finally leave beta
- Analysis: Do handset exclusivity deals hurt the mobile industry?
- Yahoo unveils Search Pad beta
- IT spending to keep falling, says Gartner
- Digital champion to focus on digital divide
- Apps key to Pre success, says Palm
- Work begins on 'Fibrezone' network for Sheffield
- Security flaw hits Internet Explorer
- EMC ups its offer for Data Domain again
- ICO raps insurance firm for data breach
- O2 confirms it will sell Palm Pre by end of year
- Campaigners celebrate 'victory' over Phorm
- Sony steps into netbook ring with Vaio W-Series
July 6
- Conservatives would cut Ofcom's powers
- Samsung i7500 coming soon to UK
- Fed up of queues, Brits want Post Office services online
- Archos adds netbooks to lineup
- First patch for Firefox 3.5
- McAfee mess as anti-virus attacks brings down PCs
- Ancient bible meets the internet
- Nokia denies it will release an Android phone
- Brits want e-retailers to be responsible for security
- UPDATED: BT drops Phorm, investors follow
July 3
- Are smartphones worth the hype?
- Apple’s MacBook leads the way in market recovery
- Government bodies set to miss own green IT targets?
- BT's high-speed broadband pilot starts Monday
- Could AVG start working on the Apple Mac platform?
- Reviews Round-up: Firefox burns brightly
- Week in Review: Pirates and foxy speeds
- iPhones in danger of overheating
- Facebook trials new privacy tools
- British still lack faith in chip and PIN
- BT: Broadband tax won't cover fibre rollout
July 2
- Oracle exec calls Amazon’s cloud model 'unprofitable'
- Company mobiles 'infringe' on workers lives, says survey
- Canonical offers free Ubuntu cloud computing system
- Oracle brings Fusion Middleware 11g in the UK
- Google irons out Apps Sync bug
- Lenovo joins Nehalem club with new servers
- Greenpeace slams Dell, HP and Lenovo over chemicals
- Tenth of mobile phone users don’t make phone calls
- Google: Are spammers running out of new ideas?
- IE8 heads to businesses in August
- Bing integrates Twitter data into search
July 1
- Conficker lets hundreds of drivers escape traffic fines
- Facebook hires EU lobbyist
- Decline in IT spending worse than predicted
- BA shelves ERP roll-out as airlines slash IT
- Midsized companies crushed under spreadsheets
- Bing taking market share from Google and Yahoo
- EU roaming charges set from today
- NetApp: Public sector must follow businesses to cloud
- Pilots no longer forced to get ID cards
- Visa signs $13 million deal with Monitise
- Carphone’s Tiscali bid gets EU green light
- BT and BlackBerry cut costs with unified communications