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February 26
- Q&A: Simon McCalla, IT director, Nominet
- Deal ends Fujitsu union woes
- Miliband falls victim to latest Twitter phishing scam
- Palm profits take a hit failure of Pre and Pixi
- Facebook opens its doors to Google real-time search
- COA takeover will help our channel says Version One
- Week in Review: Poor Google
- Reviews round-up: Office 2010 vs Open Office, Sony's S Series
- Sport Relief heads to the cloud with Carrenza
- Microsoft: Oracle fighting 'natural evolution' of IT
- Mobile networks rejig roaming ahead of EU cap
February 25
- Ofcom investigates real UK internet speeds
- Webroot goes channel building with new distie and programme
- Could the server market be bouncing back?
- Virgin Media to rollout 100Mbps in 2010
- iTunes hits 10 billion downloads as online music market slows
- Microsoft topples Google in Superbrands survey
- British Library warns web heritage at risk
- New malware growth is flat, but threat remains
February 24
- LG and Midwich tailor B2B hospitality range
- Toshiba outlines channel comeback
- ISPs named for Bournemouth’s 100Mbps broadband
- Windows Phone 7 restricted to just three chassis types?
- AMD confirms 12 core processors after eBay outing
- Nokia concedes the N97 seriously missed the mark
- Yahoo adds Twitter to search
- Xerox sues Google and Yahoo over patent infringement
- Adobe fixes download manager flaw
- Sony Ericsson Vivaz heads to Vodafone next month
February 23
- Domain names break 192 million barrier on 25th anniversary
- Online shopping plunges to record low
- Cyber crime costs enterprises £1.2 million
- Government won't disconnect pirates, just 'suspend' them
- O2 and Vodafone top mobile download speeds
- Mobile phone users won't be asked to register
- MPs slam 'regressive' broadband tax plans
- Microsoft and Amazon sign patent deal
- Mountain of e-waste hits emerging markets
February 22
- Met Police mobile deal could be worth £64 million
- Most Windows users don't know about browser ballot
- Buzz not competing with Facebook et al?
- Overheating London data centre takes Spotify offline
- Nokia scraps 6216 Classic, its SIM-based NFC handset
- Did Adobe downplay security flaw?
- HTC Desire available to pre order
- Cisco and HP part ways
February 20
- Week in Numbers: Buzz, botnets and batteries
February 19
- Microsoft browser ballot to arrive next week
- WordPress outage hits 10 million blogs
- URL typing errors earning Google $500 million a year?
- Jobs says Flash would cut iPad battery by 80 per cent
- Timeline: Five years of YouTube
- Mozilla patches critical bugs in new Firefox update
- Week in Review: Windows Phone 7 unveiled at MWC
- Dell's profit slides despite sales boost
- PayPal comes to Facebook
February 18
- Kneber botnet hits 75,000 computers
- I Twitter, therefore please rob me
- Half of software budgets spent on upgrades
- French web law allows spying on ISPs, individuals
- Microsoft confirms rootkit caused 'blue screen of death'
- Solid sales boost HP's profit by 25 per cent
- T-Mobile, Orange to sell spectrum for merger approval?
- MWC 2010: The big mobile event of the year in pictures
- Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia
- Microsoft adds Facebook to Outlook 2010
- Google admits Buzz flaws, but says no one was hurt
February 17
- Free laptops programme loses key supplier
- Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro review: First look
- Vodafone becomes UK's most valuable brand
- Google Buzz hit by official privacy complaint
- How serious are Tories with database rollback promises?
- TCA lifts lid on new Reseller Forum
- How many CCTV cameras are out there?
- MWC 2010: O2 to bring HTC Smart to the UK
- Commodore Vic-20 gets internet connectivity
- Ofsted: Teachers ill-equipped to protect pupils online
- ICANN: Most web domain registrations are faulty
- MWC 2010: Facebook goes Zero for mobile access
- Microsoft unveils Office 2010 UK pricing
February 16
- MWC 2010: Google prioritising the mobile space
- Free laptop scheme open to fraud, says MP
- Bloxx recruits Dunne to lead channel campaign
- MWC 2010: LG Mini brings syncing to feature phones
- Shell data hackers hoped to kick-off 'revolution'
- DWP adopts thin-client model in £300 million deal
- Adobe to patch critical flaws in Reader and Acrobat
- MWC 2010: Globalfoundries and ARM unveil new SoC
- iPhone upgrade fever leads to insurance fraud
- MWC 2010: HTC unveils Desire, Legend and HD Mini
- Tour de France cheat wanted by police for hacking
- MWC 2010: Samsung demos first LTE-based netbook
- YouTube celebrates five years online
February 15
- MPs set for Vista upgrade rather than Windows 7
- Government throws millions at tackling online fraud
- Q&A: Red Hat's Werner Knoblich on UK open source
- Microsoft showcases what Windows Mobile 7 will offer
- Google forced into second Buzz backtrack
- Microsoft to scan for pirates every 90 days
- MWC 2010: Mobile firms take on Apple's App Store
- Spammers already swarming Google Buzz
- Shell hit by massive data breach
- Microsoft blames malware for XP patch woes
- MWC 2010: Orange's HD voice coming to UK this year
- MWC 2010: Intel and Nokia unveil MeeGo
- MWC 2010: Vodafone to offer $15 handset for emerging markets
- MWC 2010: Toshiba takes wraps off TG02 and K01 handsets
- MWC 2010: Vivaz Pro unveiled by Sony Ericsson
- MWC 2010: Samsung reveals Wave smartphone
February 14
- MWC 2010: Sony Ericsson unveils X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro
- MWC 2010 roundup
February 13
- Reviews round-up: Google Buzz, Toshiba and Apple vs Microsoft
- Week in numbers: Microsoft and Adobe hit by more bugs
February 12
- IBM launches first NAS device
- Timeline: Adobe versus Apple
- Researchers claim chip and PIN is 'broken'
- Week in Review: Google gets Buzzed
- Google tweaks privacy controls after Buzz backlash
- Google acquires social search start-up Aardvark
- Nokia booklet goes on sale in UK
- Adobe identifies another critical Flash Player bug
- OpenOffice 3.2 ready for download
February 11
- Microsoft and Apple hit with mobile patent suit
- Pension deficit plan given the go ahead by BT trustees
- Contract concerns will be the next hurdle for cloud
- Prisoners' Facebook pages taken down after victim taunts
- Microsoft slip-up boasts Windows 8 is 'future of PCs'
- Adobe claims seven million iPhone users want Flash
- Synchronica launches $99 MessagePhone smartphone
- Photos: Design Council unveils mobile security tech
- Google plans 1Gbps fibre broadband network
February 10
- Google Buzz review: First look
- Virgin Media backs Tories' plans as it re-brands NTL:Telewest
- DWP extends BT service contract worth £237 million
- IT security must change for the cloud
- Cambridge City Council denies plan to buy Apple iPads
- Touch screens takeover smartphone market
- Consumers led enterprise to the cloud
- Opera tries to bring Mini browser to iPhone
- Retailers should carry the can for online fraud
- Microsoft issues 13 patches, warns on SSL flaw
- Business and IT battle during the recession
- BT reaches one million Wi-Fi hotspot milestone
February 9
- Google unveils Google Buzz
- Nvidia Optimus switches it up for better graphics
- Adobe apologises for 16-month-old bug
- Q&A: Facebook and open source
- British Library to offer 65,000 free e-books
- BT to let other providers use its fibre tunnels
- Head to Head: Google Nexus One vs Motorola Milestone
- Microsoft and CEOP collaborate on child-friendly version of IE8
- Phones set for pressure-sensitive quantum keys
- Google to add social networking to Gmail?
- Windows 7 is not killing batteries, claims Microsoft
February 8
- Linux’s Linus loves the Nexus One
- HMRC staff claim computer system generates incorrect tax bills
- FBI chief repeats request for ISPs to retain data for two years
- Does the Digital Economy Bill breach web users' rights?
- BT claims 24Mbps available to half of UK
- Microsoft mistakenly reveals free Office 2010 upgrade offer
- IBM unveils Power7 chips
- Thin client distributor to spearhead Systancia UK expansion
- Google working on translator phone
- SAP's chief executive steps down
February 5
- Week in Review: IE6 woes continue
- Ex-VP calls Microsoft ‘a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator’
- More trustworthy sites being infected by malware
- US politicians pass $400 million cyber security bill
- Column: Inside the Enterprise
- Latest IE flaw left out of Patch Tuesday
- You might not need an iPad. But we need profitable PC makers
- Adobe: Lack of 'cooperation' kept Flash off iPad
February 4
- Apple iPad heralds era of the tablet?
- Sun boss tweets goodbye
- Educators call for exemption from Digital Economy Bill
- IDC forecasts slight rise in global IT spending
- O2 sells two million iPhones
- Q&A: Why I started the anti-IE6 petition
- Attitudes must change to encourage home working
- RIM wins patent dispute with Motorola
- Motorola Devour next off the Android production line
- Symbian completes switch to open source
- MP steering the Digital Economy Bill steps down
- Microsoft admits new IE flaw
February 3
- Cambridge receives six-figure Google research grant
- OFT calls for UK investigation into mobile merger
- Twitter users compromised by dodgy torrent sites
- Is Facebook the biggest threat to corporate security?
- T-Mobile to bring Nexus One to UK?
- Sony Ericsson unveils eco-friendly Aspen handset
February 2
- Andrew Philpott joins Websense as VP sales, UK & Ireland
- Photos: The Google tablet to rival the iPad?
- Conficker worm hits Greater Manchester Police
- Fixed broadband lines to hit half a billion
- ULCC spends £3 million on new data centre
- Intel and Micron double flash capacity
- Vodafone unveils dedicated small business store
- Chinese firm claims Apple is guilty of iPad 'plagiarism'
- Gartner: Fifth of businesses to use social networks over email
- Teachers union hit by data loss
- Google drops IE6 support
- IE8 finally knocks IE6 from browser top spot
February 1
- Mobile Firefox hits Maemo
- BT to consolidate O2’s networks
- Mobile internet networks ‘at risk of meltdown’
- Apple and Adobe point fingers over iPad's lack of Flash
- EU battery recycling scheme hits the UK
- Government has halved number of public websites
- Jobs hits out at Google
- DoH urges NHS staff to stop using IE6
- Tories tout 100Mbps for most by 2017
- Apple iPad coming to the UK from next month