How the cloud is swallowing your comms
Hybrid offerings emerge as tech companies get close to VoIP providers

Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
How to minimise the damage to your business

Second iPhone worm: A botnet risk
News in brief: Malware steps up from rickrolling to pose genuine threat

Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
Tube Lines and Highways Agency IT chiefs on the route to outsourcing success

Recession hitting low paid IT jobs
Skills Survey 2009: Are recruitment freezes propping up IT pay?

Video: How much is the CIO role about tech?
IT chiefs tell it like it is at silicon.com's CIO50 2009 event

Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Google netbook operating system built for browsing will make its debut in 2010

Pay for IT chiefs weathers the storm
Skills Survey 2009: IT chiefs' pay has held up in downturn

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Doomed network operators could thrive with a bit of innovation

Illegal downloaders crackdown: Digital Economy Bill to cut them off
News in brief: ISPs to be forced to give up suspected infringers details

Symantec website breached

Security company Symantec has said that one of its websites was successfully breached. Romanian security researcher 'Unu' posted details of the breach in a blog post on Monday. Unu claimed to...

South Yorkshire set to get next-gen broadband

The network operating centre for Digital Region, a public-private partnership intended to bring fibre-based 25Mbps broadband to South Yorkshire, has gone live

EC drops Qualcomm antitrust probe

European regulators have dropped their investigation into Qualcomm's 3G licensing, after Ericsson and other companies that lodged a complaint withdrew

Radioactive assumptions in the Digital Economy Bill

If enacted, anti-filesharing provisions will impose huge cost and huge danger without any guarantee of success or necessity. We deserve more rational laws.

European telecoms reform clears final hurdle

The Telecoms Reform Package, which covers topics such as internet freedom, data breach notification and net neutrality, has been passed by the European Parliament

Developers invited into LinkedIn

The networking site for professionals has opened its platform to developers so they can integrate it into business applications and web sites

HP bumps up outlook for next year

The company has reported fourth-quarter and annual earnings in line with expectations and has raised its financial targets for 2010

Mobile industry 'cannot identify pirates'

Identifying unlawful file-sharers to comply with proposed law is not currently possible for mobile operators, industry chief says

Socitm calls on councils to spend more on 'change'

Increased investment in transformational projects will pay off in savings on consultants and outsourcing, the Society of IT Management has argued

Beams all round as LHC progress accelerates

Flagship experiment is making rapid progress towards its first new science, says Cern

Australians detail cybersecurity strategy

Australian attorney general sets out plans for security agencies to protect internet users from attack

Cumbria community digs NHS-funded fibre

The Alston Moor area will have next-generation broadband connectivity by the end of the year, thanks to a social enterprise rollout that is partly funded by the NHS

Opera 10.10 bundled with Unite web server function

The most recent version of the browser comes with Opera's data-sharing application

Carphone Warehouse freezes Satio phone sales

The retailer has temporarily stopped selling Sony Ericsson's flagship Symbian smartphone, after a software fault prompted a high rate of returns

Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'

The National Health Service's flagship IT project has been criticised by a tax campaign group for running billions of pounds over budget. The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has overspent...

iPhone worm could be used to create botnets

The new worm affects the SSH protocol in jailbroken iPhones and is "much more serious" than the previous threat, as it may attempt to steal data, F-Secure warns

Oracle gets more time to respond to EU

European regulators have extended the deadline for their review of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, giving the business software maker more time to make its case

IE 6 and 7 hit by zero-day bug

Exploit code is available for a memory corruption flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, which could allow an intruder to crash the browser or send a user to a malicious web page

Microsoft may help News Corp. vanish from Google

Rupert Murdoch's media empire is talking with the tech giant about having its web sites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report

EU ministers agree e-government aims

European ministers set out five-year plan for creating better online public services across the EU

Chrome, Android likely to merge

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that the company's two operating-system projects, which could compete with each other in netbooks, may become one OS over time

Large Hadron Collider up and running again

The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a...

Climate research centre compromised

One of the UK's leading climate change research centres has had a security breach. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suffered a compromise of information, a UEA...

Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims

ISPs are fiercely contesting government claims that they support the Digital Economy Bill's anti-copyright-infringement measures, while Telnic has warned of official threats to Icann's authority

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Organisations should be wary of vendor lock-in, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency