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CSC And NHS Reach £900m IT Service Compromise
The NHS is free from further NPfIT payments. and CSC is still pitching - with a promise to save the government £1 billion
Apple Devices Beat Android On HTML5 Performance
Apple's iOS devices perform far better than Google's Android at rendering HTML5 objects, according to a new study
Apple’s iOS App Store Hits 25 Billion Downloads
Apple has handed out a £6,300 iTunes Gift Card to the customer who put its App Store downloads over the 25 billion mark
MIT Offers Android App Inventor Beta
MIT has made available a beta of its App Inventor tool that allows for the easy creation of Android apps
Content Carries No Legal Liability For Hosts Of Social Media Sites
Google's Blogger site has been likened to a wall of graffiti in a landmark decision that it cannot be sued for malicious content
Mainframe Developer Skills In Short Supply, Compuware Warns
A new Compuware study has revealed that most CIOs are ill-prepared for the shortage of mainframe developers
Microsoft Will Make Hadoop Data Available Through Excel
With Excel output, the Big Data crunching platform could become more appealing to smaller companies
Microsoft Windows Server 8 Beta Made Available For Testing
Windows Server 8 beta has been released to IT departments for testing and to gain feedback on refining the final release
Three Explains ‘4G’ Roll Out Is Just A Faster Version Of HSPA+
Previous claims that the 3 Network would introduce 4G speeds was based on misleading definition by T-Mobile US
IntraLinks Offers Secure Intra-Company Mobile Collaboration Environment
IntraLinks Connect secures and audits access to files stored in its Cloud for remote access by any device, with the prospect of Olympic gains
Windows Azure Leap-Year Glitch Takes Down G-Cloud
Microsoft says that most services have now returned to normal after a day of chaos
Google Pushes Out Its Privacy Policy Changes Despite Regulatory Disdain
Google is going ahead with privacy policy changes today despite pleas from European Union and US officials
New Metrics From Android Market Arm Developers With App Usage Statistics
Google's application metrics dashboard for Android Market now informs developers how their products are faring with users
VMware Helps Java Developers Handle Big Data With Spring Hadoop
VMware's Spring Hadoop targets enterprise Java developers who want to create Big Data analysis applications
MWC 2012: Huawei Adds Its Backing To Tizen Mobile OS
Android beware, Huawei has added its backing to Tizen just as a beta of the new mobile operating system has been made available
Strange Android Devices Try To Make A Monkey Of Apple’s Gorilla
Tablet makers, realising they can’t beat the iPad 3, are trying to play different games instead. Wayne Rash asks: will it work?
Raspberry Pi Launch – A PC For The Price Of A Pair Of Jeans
£22 or less can buy a Linux-based computer to teach the principles of computing to a new generation of programmers
MWC 2012: Mozilla Marketplace Is Open To Developers
Mozilla has announced its Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developer apps submissions for sale later this year
SIG Lab Wants To Make Software More Energy Efficient
Laboratory's research could make every computer a little bit “greener”
MWC 2012: Facebook Pushes Mobile Web Standards Effort
Facebook and more than 30 other companies are to back the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group
MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn
The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead
RSA 2012: WAF Added To QualysGuard Cloud Security Platform
Web Application Firewall touted to protect against spammers, SQL injections and DDoS attacks
Facebook To Tackle Open Source Storage Hardware
Social networking site plans to build own storage hardware to handle growing number of user uploads
Report: Microsoft Office 15 To Get Touch Mode
Microsoft will add a new mode to its upcoming version of Office making it more suitable for touch-screen devices
Adobe ‘Project Primetime’ Integrates Video With Advertising, Analytics
Adobe has announced a new fully integrated video technology platform aimed at enabling TV-like experiences for advertising-supported videos on connected devices
HTML5 Copyright Protection Proposals Branded “Unethical”
Google, Microsoft and Netflix lend their support to DRM for HTML5
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 Betas Out Next Week
Microsoft gave a sneak peek of the next version of its flagship toolset codenamed Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5
iPad 3: New Picture In An Old Frame
Apple's iPad 3 overall design will resemble its predecessors despite major internal upgrades
Open Source Code Is As Good As Proprietary, Says Coverity
Open source code scanned by Coverity had slightly fewer flaws per 1000 lines