Visitors to London for the Olympics will be able to use NFC-equipped mobile phones to buy snacks and drinks
An AFCOM survey polled 358 managers from around the world and found many ill-prepared for disasters
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The government's £3.6bn IT spending cuts are leaving public sector financial directors in a tizzy
New benchmark results and advertising push aims to put distance between rival Oracle and its WebSphere suite
Near Field Communication will be made available in most upcoming BlackBerry smartphones and tablets
But Germany, France and Italy will do better out of the cloud, according to EMC Consulting's report
The Mitmo Zeus Trojan has infected phones to intercept login SMS credentials and access bank accounts
Vodafone, Orange, O2 and others have declared they will launch NFC mobile payment services by 2012
Gartner claims half of all companies, fearing prosecution, may attempt to block social networking site access
The US can access EU financial data under an agreement designed to track terrorist funds
Novell shareholders have approved the complex $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate and Longview
Falling behind and under potential cyber-attack, LSE has made a move to Novell's open source SuSE Linux
The gameshow-playing supercomputer Watson trounced humans as it romped all over the Jeopardy board
Despite a rosier picture for IT job seekers, the latest figures from e-Skills shows a skills gap is approaching
Windows Phone 7 units need to show much improved sales to maintain Microsoft's market postion
O2 is planning to offer mobile payments, on the heels of Everything Everywhere's NFC announcement
SAP said a refusal to reduce the fine imposed in favour of Oracle would lead it to appeal the original…
LinkedIn has filed for an initial public offering, potentially paving the way for Facebook, Twitter and Groupon
Microsoft posted stronger quarterly revenues than expected but still faces challenges with its online services
The UK's largest operator will roll out contactless mobile payments this summer
Despite struggling with the Oracle lawsuit fallout, SAP announced strong fourth-quarter 2010 revenues
The cloud has green credentials, but are they genuine, asks Peter Judge
e-Skills finds that the IT employers want mature staff with qualifications rather than eager youths
Hardware replacement, mobile devices, cyber-threats and cloud spending will exceed $10 billion in five years
Screening software in NetSuite's cloud-based ERP platform makes it easier to screen fraudulent transactions
As SAP buys into ID management, an event at Black Hat DC will put Web-enabled SAP apps in the line…
Court battles over, Oracle still sees value in releasing a BI analytics application for SAP databases
Sony has no tablets for sale yet but it still plans to be chasing Apple - or Samsung - by…
Intel is offering promises to EU regulators to alleviate antitrust fears over the McAfee acquisition