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Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
Have a natter with Chatter...

Tags: twitter, facebook, cloud computing, social networking

Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
Storm clouds are gathering over IT outsourcing

Tags: outsourcing, ibm, salesforce.com, nicholas carr

Office 2010: Beta launched
News in brief: New features include social networking connector

Tags: microsoft, office 2010, browser-based apps, beta

Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
Find out what you'll be packing - and the applications your company needs to prepare for

Tags: gartner, mobile phone, app store, iphone

Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
And lifts the lid on features from Dallas to Sydney

Tags: dallas, project sydney, azure services, microsoft azure

UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
Target for Greater Manchester cards is missed

Tags: public sector, biometrics, id cards

Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News in brief: 'We're not done with search'

Tags: chrome os, android, google wave, eric schmidt

Bing sheds its beta skin in the UK
News in brief: Microsoft's search engine takes the stabilisers off

Tags: beta, microsoft, bing

£500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
Watchdog gets teeth - but only after more than 700 data breaches

Tags: ico, information commissioner's office, data loss, data breach

The software that can save you big bucks? You've already got it
How ERP can clobber CO2 and cut costs to boot...

Tags: sap, bi, erp, green it


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Mobiles, internet, email - which tech can't you live without?
Poll: Techies reveal what they're most addicted to...

Tags: mp3 player, email, internet addiction

Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
But Oracle hits back claiming "profound misunderstanding" of open source

Tags: european commission, sun, oracle, mysql

Tweets to turn up on LinkedIn thanks to status-sharing deal
News in brief: Twitter updates to get down to business

Tags: linkedin, tweets, twitter

Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
Stories of the month - October 2009

Tags: open source, snow leopard, windows 7

Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
Here's a clue - let's just say it isn't Windows Vista

Tags: windows vista, windows 7, windows xp

Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
Microsoft's old OS shown up by new model

Tags: pc sales, boxed copy, windows 7

Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
A journey from the Colossus computer room to the battlefields of Europe

Tags: codebreaking, second world war, bletchley park

Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
"You have got to have your seatbelt on" says IT chief - but it's worth it

Tags: salesforce.com, google apps, cloud computing, telegraph media group

Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News in brief: Beware the money mules and malware

Tags: fbi, criminal, phishing

Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
CIO Jury: Brains are not enough to create a British software powerhouse

Tags: google, microsoft, oracle, cio jury

'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News in brief: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee slams C-Nomis

Tags: pac, database, c-nomis, prison

'You're responsible for your own wi-fi security' say ISPs
News in brief: BBC hack demo sheds light on hotspot holes

Tags: t-mobile, openzone, bt

Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
The next operating system war has already begun

Tags: open source, nokia, maemo, symbian foundation

Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News in brief: Redmond calls time on accounting product

Tags: online software, microsoft, office accounting

Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
HMRC trims one of UK's largest outsourcing contracts

'UK must up privacy safeguards following Phorm'
News in brief: Government must boost privacy safeguards

Tags: european commission, phorm

Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
Open source finds favour with IT chiefs - but what about end users?

Tags: cio, linux, open source

How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
Wave's co-creator on why businesses are already eyeing Google's collaboration platform

Tags: sap, web 2.0, google, web apps


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