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April 30
- Online retail popularity to double by 2010
- BT develops motion-sensing laptop
- Surge in password-protected malware
- Automatic domain name checking tool unveiled by ICANN
- Samsung starts production of 16Gb nand flash memory
- Dell rethinks direct sales model
April 27
- US government to consider rollback of online betting restrictions
- AT&T CEO sets surprise June exit
- Spam now arriving with virus attached
- Digital revolution spreading across Europe
- Orange leader steps down
April 26
- ICT causes same volume of CO2 emissions as aviation
- Acer recalls 27,000 laptop batteries
- Adobe goes open source with Flex
- Virgin Mobile gets analytical to reduce churn
- One in six MPs ignore constituent's email
April 25
- UPDATED: Sun Microsystems accused of anti-competitive behaviour
- Nominet and Oxford Brookes team up to fight domain name fraud
- Nine out of 10 SMBs allow flexible working
- Red Hat acquires MetaMatrix, reworks enterprise middleware offerings
April 24
- Spectrum ZX celebrates 25th Birthday
- Heathrow Express signals launch of in-train Wi-Fi service
- Blu-ray takes lion's share of high-def market
- Infosecurity Europe 2007: Security no longer wedded to IT department
- CA World 2007: CA to boost focus on mid market
April 23
- Oxford Tube passengers benefit from free Wi-Fi
- Motorola to acquire Terayon for $140 million
- Thousands of complaints after British Gas' billing system has "teething problems"
- MacBook gets hacked in security conference contest
- CA World 2007: Governance top of the agenda for CA
April 20
- Ubuntu 7.04 Linux released
- Chancellor has not approved ID card budget
- Leeds in £1.8 million wireless CCTV expansion
- Westminster's motorists pay for parking by text
- A quarter of work computers hold porn
- 100,000 Bulldog Broadband customer details stolen
- Macquarie acquires O2 Airwave for £1.9bn
- The Met Police signs ICT framework contracts worth £214 million
- BT buys Comsat International
- Microsoft and Samsung sign IP sharing deal
April 19
- DSL, SMS and streaming video tops for non-voice mobile services
- Microsoft gives Londoners free cab rides to work
- SNW 07: Sun launches StorageTek disk array
- Lincolnshire to offer free websites to 460 parish councils
- FSA and Fujitsu embark on eight-year, £80m marriage
- Shared services between public and private sector offer extra value
- Thunderbird 2.0 officially ready for take off
April 18
- Charnwood spends £430,000 on customer management
- Cable companies look for ways to boost bandwidth
- BT in IP telephony deal with Ciba
- Two cautioned over illegal wireless internet access
- IDF Spring 2007: New ultramobile processor unveiled
April 17
- HP ProCurve gets close to edge with security
- Cheaper printing changing publishing, says HP
- MPs told NHS IT programme "not looking good"
April 16
- UK the largest public sector ICT market in Europe
- Airports to use RFID on passengers
- Visa glitch hits customers
- Housing association customers shun the web
- Toshiba debuts 200GB external hard drive
- Orange developers flock to Cape Canaveral
- BT mobilises working life with Office Anywhere
- IT professionals reveal passwords for chocolate
April 14
- CentOS 5 Linux released
April 13
- Cisco bids a wireless welcome to Covent Garden visitors
- Akamai splashes out $15 million on Red Swoosh acquisition
- Ofcom wants to remove unnecessary wireless regulation
- Telcos and ISPs worst at customer service
- New bug hits Windows DNS service
- BT rethinks policy on fibre optics as copper prices soar
April 12
- Building an information society on par with post-war reconstruction, says EU
- NHS suspends Atos Origin contract after scan errors
- Orange and Argyll partner to protect lone workers
- Matalan extends offshore partnership with Capgemini
- HP aims new storage appliance at mid-market
- RIM's revenue up 47 per cent despite formal SEC probe
April 11
- OneBip's mobile payment service officially launches in the UK
- Goldman Sachs demotes Microsoft stock
- HP unveils Edgeline inkjet printers for business
- Dell says a quiet goodbye to its Axim line
- NHS launches appointment booking pilot and new "super" website
- Chiltern Railways extends mobile ticketing usage
April 10
- School children being fingerprinted without parents' consent
- Employees tell friends company secrets
- SAP's TomorrowNow still mulling over response to Oracle lawsuit
- Rise of the storage robot
- BT's wholesale broadband price cuts to kick in next month
- Linux to appear on 200 million-plus mobiles by 2012
- Symantec completes £420m Altiris acquisition
- London Underground launches accessibility web service
April 6
- Seamonkey beginning the long climb back
April 5
- Companies ready for flexible working
- Voice analysis 'lie detector' to fight benefit fraud
- IT degree take-up halved
- University of Dundee overhauls IT systems
- Globalisation a two-way street, says e-government minister
- Wireless security cracked in a minute
April 4
- EU researchers make flexible solar battery
- Macquarie buys National Grid Wireless UK for £2.5 billion
- Trustive launches one-click hotspot access for business users
- Wipro recruiting directly from UK universities
- Lloyds TSB completes £3.5m converged network project
- Honda F1 team to take IT services from IBM and Dassault
- Lenovo tops Greenpeace's environmentally-friendly league
April 3
- Xerox plans to acquire Global Imaging Systems
- Flexible working more important than salary, says study
- Mobile phones will carry 50 per cent of all voice traffic by 2008
- Nokia faces legal challenge over patents
- Jobcentre Plus launches digital TV service
- Financial sector to increase IT spending by 11 per cent
- BT to axe ISDN for domestic users
April 2
- Monarch flying high with new web testing tool
- Brocade unveils 10 Gigabit Ethernet San strategy
- Science Museum is first beneficiary of interactive web project
- New police IT agency launches
- New IT industry alliance to look at national security