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October 29
- Week in review: Super fast broadband and wireless for everyone
- IT PRO goes to the Hadron Collider
- Mount Everest gains its own mobile phone base station
- Adobe finds exploited flaw in Flash Player
- The many challenges of IPv6 migration
- Human networks could boost mobile broadband
- Microsoft $16.2 billion revenue a record result
- London Underground readies in-station Wi-Fi trials
October 28
- ICO can’t fine Google for Wi-Fi scandal
- Dell and Intel push PCIe SSD standardisation group
- Security assured as Mozilla and Adobe patches emerge
- BT slams Virgin 100Mbps broadband pricing
- Form-filling costs UK business £104 billion a year
- Coder fires ‘Idiocy’ warning to Twitter users
- Koobface turns eyes towards Macs
- IT in 2011: costs, consumerisation and the cloud
October 27
- IBM IOD 2010: Emerging tech, predicting the future and getting it right
- Intel expands Cloud Builders project
- Microsoft updates Windows 7 and Server 2008
- SAP posts double-digit growth
- Intel helps create Open Data Centre Alliance
- Most business data "not good enough"
- SNW Europe 2010: 'Cloud is Camelot' for businesses
- Intel outlines Cloud 2015 vision
- Business department to boost its website
- SNW Europe 2010: Tape isn't dead yet
- Virgin rolls out 100Mbps broadband
- IBM IOD 2010: Acquisition strategy bears fruits for IBM
- IBM IOD 2010: Visa heralded as BI innovator
October 26
- University develops virtual engineer
- SNW Europe 2010: Fujitsu rides coat tails of EMC deduplication promotion
- Mainframe continues to defy recession
- Coalition plan to revive web snooping rebuffed by ICO
- Microsoft's Ozzie maps out the post PC world
- IBM sets up UK Cloud Computing Lab
- SNW Europe 2010: Enterprise must leverage consumer tech
- Massive Bredolab botnet shut down
- SNW Europe 2010: Latency will always limit cloud computing
October 25
- BA extends mobile boarding passes
- Government announces £200 million tech centre fund
- Windows 8 available in 2012?
- Supercomputers essential to European growth
- BT apprenticeship intake doubles
- Virus spreading snooper pleads guilty
- More HP court actions hit Hurd
- Google admits harvesting passwords
October 22
- Week in Review: Kaspersky hit by hackers, UK hit by spending cuts
- Top 5 smartphones
- Kaspersky on getting hacked
- Facebook commits to $250 million social app fund
- Unofficial privacy tool ‘Facebook Disconnect’ launched
- More misery ahead for retail bank IT
- iPhone overtakes BlackBerry, closes in on Nokia
- Amazon lures new customers with free cloud computing service
- One in 10 UK sites spams users
- Mobile services to hit $1 trillion in revenues
- Citrix revenue hits $472 million
- Adobe zero-day flaw code published
October 21
- Microsoft: PaaS opens up the cloud to enterprise of all sizes
- Q&A: Vodafone CTO Jeni Mundy on the rise of unified communications
- Google and Mozilla fix browser flaws
- Nokia to layoff 1,800 employees
- Facebook targets cyber crime with three lawsuits
- Mac OS vulnerabilities skyrocket
October 20
- The spending cuts: An overview
- Spending cuts: What will it mean for broadband?
- RSA and NetApp address cloud computing data privacy
- Spending cuts: Private sector a safe haven for IT pros?
- BBC to boost broadband push
- Govt pledges fraud-fighting £900 million tech boost
- IBM launches cloud computing security initiative
- Head of Symbian Foundation resigns
- Microsoft announces cloud computing suite 'Office 365'
October 19
- Head to Head: iPhone 4 vs Windows Phone 7 vs Android
- Lower level workers missing flexible working tools
- Gartner outlines seven essential CIO skills
- Roundup: Government Spending Cuts
- Live blog: Government spending cuts
- UPDATED: Kaspersky hit by cyber criminals?
- Global IT spend to reach $2.5 trillion in 2011
- IBM income up 12 per cent
- NIDFPW: Data theft - the dominant fraud
- NIDFPW: ID fraud costs UK £2.7 billion a year
October 18
- Cyber crime: One of the biggest threats to UK security
- Google: Change your passwords twice a year
- T-Mobile not expecting N8 until early November
- UK not ready for 'web apps of tomorrow'
- Android premium SMS caller hidden in porn player
- NIDFPW: ID fraud up 10 per cent
- NHS IT manager illegally accesses patient records
- Fibre data capacity close to full?
- NIDFPW: Lack of trust in business data handling
October 15
- How to protect your Wi-Fi connection
- Son of Zeus can sneak past antivirus controls
- Skype adds phone a friend feature to Facebook
- Barracuda: Stuxnet 'underplayed and overplayed'
- Week in Review: Fry thinks Windows Phone 7 gets it right, UK tackles cyber crime
- US tops botnet charts but UK is still in running
- Industry 'needs global security standards body'
- Windows Phone 7 review: email, calendar and Microsoft Office first look
- Gartner predicts strong growth for tablet market
- Google revenues jump 23 per cent
- Q&A: Barracuda CEO Dean Drako on cloud, the future and more
October 14
- Government funding boost to fight cyber crime?
- Barracuda: Cloud computing fuels innovation
- IBM adds Power to CloudBurst line-up
- Barracuda launches NG Firewall 5.0
- Expiring passwords fail to lock out hackers
- Barracuda shows off 'power of data' to fight virus
- UK Wi-Fi ripe for hacking
- Windows Phone 7: the enterprise application glitch
October 13
- Omniquad breach was not unexpected, says Veracode
- UK leads Europe in virtualisation adoption
- Intel predicts tablet market domination
- Hackers waiting for IP addresses to run out
- Removal tool for unwanted applications launched
- GCHQ: UK critical services cyber threat is real
- Fifth of motorists use social media when driving
October 12
- M86 launches Secure Web Gateway 10.0
- Q&A: Reza Malekzadeh, vice president of marketing at Nimbula
- Canon promises keyword-based document scanning and printing security system
- RSA: IT sec experts facing unprecedented complexity
- RSA 2010: Technology ‘enabling massive privacy invasions’
- Security needs to move from physical to virtual
October 11
- Microsoft Windows Phone 7 release date 21 October
- SUSE Linux joins the Amazon cloud
- Developing countries more digitally engaged
- Symantec announces its data encryption plans
- IT pros expect widespread cloud computing adoption
- Everything Everywhere switches network on
October 8
- Microsoft and Adobe keep quiet over rumoured merger
- Cloud computing business models 'will need to alter'
- Adobe and Vidyo connect for video to web conferencing
- Storwize array claims flexibility for IBM midrange
- Cloud computing model not ‘either or’
- Amazon planning app store?
- IT PRO team sleeps rough for charity
- Microsoft plans biggest Patch Tuesday ever
October 7
- HTML5 not ready for production?
- HTC G2 removes jailbreak apps
- TalkTalk to buy up portion of BT broadband service
- ICO supports prison sentences for serious breaches
- October spam levels plummet
- McAfee moves to protect virtual Citrix desktops
- Motorola sues Apple for patent infringement
October 6
- Citrix opens GoldenGate for thin client mobility
- Citrix Synergy promotes three-screen enterprise
- Stuxnet-like attacks hit infrastructure providers
- European firms wasting millions on unused apps
- Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection launched in UK
- Pictures: Inside an HP POD
October 5
- HP 'PODs' offer data centre in a box
- HP targets scalable system at web providers
- HP stakes claim on networking market with branch office solution
- Symantec launches broad mobile strategy
- Excessive heat - a burning laptop issue
- Skype announce Cisco SVP as CEO
- Maude accuses councils of data access sabotage
- Microsoft Windows tablets will be ready by Christmas
- Ballmer: Patent laws need changing
October 4
- CCTV service 'Internet Eyes' goes live
- Windows 7 adoption still dwarfed by XP
- Microsoft sues Motorola for Android patent breach
- Cyber Security Challenge uptake beats expectations
- Windows Phone 7 release date set for 11 October
- Google buys up Blind Type
- BT survey to guide fibre rollout
- Apotheker pockets $4 million bonus
- Met chief warns of broadband crime boost
October 1
- Former SAP Boss becomes HP CEO
- Week in review: Virus hits Iran nuclear power plant, Ballmer bonus woes
- Don't forget security in the virtual world
- Brocade backs Dell agnostic cloud approach over HP
- Samsung gives up on Symbian
- Economics will outweigh SMB fear of cloud computing
- Microwave wireless could solve UK not-spots