Microsoft's acquisition of Skype will give it access to a 170 million-strong user base. But did Microsoft overpay, asks Nicholas…
Martha Lane Fox says it will just take enthusiasm to get nine million Britons online - and allow online savings
Microsoft doesn't need to buy Skype to reap the benefits of its service, says Peter Judge. Could this end up…
The ICO's advice for businesses on upcoming privacy regulations has been criticised for being 'generic'
UK data centres must improve if the country is to remain a financial powerhouse, Quocirca warns
A Frost & Sullivan report found that larger contact centres gain higher savings with the cloud-hosted model
In its latest briefing for public sector ICT, Socitm sets out the checks and balances for outsourcing services
If organisations want to meet carbon targets they will have to get their staff involved. Peter Judge asks if a…
Thousands of jobs are to go at Nokia as the handset giant shakes up its core operations going forward
A new report has warned SMBs to reconsider their disaster recovery procedures in virtual environments
Numerous AWS-hosted websites are back online following the outage late last week at an Amazon data centre
More than 40 hours after the initial outage, numerous AWS-hosted Websites were still offline
A European survey on the economic costs of almost 73,000 lost or stolen laptops puts the bill into billions
Most businesses fail to see how PCI-DSS compliance brings overall data security to their organisation
The next version of Windows will have an App Store, cloud integration and a Kinect-based UI, says Nicholas Kolakowski
Dell is rolling out servers, storage systems and networking devices to help SMBs deal with today's IT issues
Give users virtual desktops, and you can stop supporting their personal-use apps apps, says Cameron Sturdevant
IBM concentrated on SOA at its Impact 2011 conference in Las Vegas
Lenovo and Intel offer mobile client software, called Cloud Ready Client, for Lenovo’s Secure Cloud Access
Top executives for Android, Chrome and YouTube will report directly to the CEO, Larry Page
Prizes could be a good way to encourage innovators, according to science minister David Willetts
Energy giant Schneider Electric has acquired a data centre specialist for an undisclosed amount
Social media are pervasive but invisible, according to research from Net Media Europe
HP offers start points for connecting silos of data, stopping short of the "master data management" label
Businesses need to get an early understanding of the tablet form factor, Gartner has advised
John Chambers has admitted that Cisco has lost credibility in a remarkably frank memo to staff
Vodafone has ended its French stalemate by selling off its minority stake in SFR for £7 billion
Companies are missing a trick by not realising how much energy is being used by dormant office equipment, says IBM's…
The boss of Acer has resigned after clashing with the board over the future direction of the company
Despite the Oracle Android case, Google wins big in hiring James Gosling, the creator of the Java language, says Darryl…