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Government’s New ICT Strategy Could Save £3.2bn
UK public services will be delivered via a government cloud and app store, with an emphasis on green IT and open source - according to a leaked five-year plan
Bit.ly Partners With Security Companies To Combat Short URL Hacks
Bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, is partnering with VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to add a new level of security
Wikipedia Loses Thousands Of Contributors, Study Claims
A study claims that Wikipedia's volunteer editors are deserting the site in their thousands, but founder Jimmy Wales contests the accuracy of the report
EU Telecoms Package Finally Approved
The EU telecoms package has finally been approved, following repeated delays due to the net cut-off row. Now governments need to focus on setting up a Europe-wide telecoms regulator in 2010
Review: Outlook 2010 Gets Up To Speed With Office Suite
With Microsoft Outlook 2010, the mail client has caught up with the rest of the Office suite. eWEEK Labs' tests show some significant improvements, but also some room for confusion.
First Else Linux Phone Gets Teasing London Launch
You can't touch it yet, but the iPhone-killing entrepeneurs behind this Linux device claim it really is something Else
Spotify Launches Symbian Client
The hugely popular music-streaming service, Spotify, is now available on Nokia handsets as well as other Symbian-based devices
Climate Researchers Respond To Email Hack
The Climatic Research Institute says that some of the hacked emails may not be genuine while others are being taken out of context
Climate Change Deniers Quote Hacked University Data
Hacked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit are being used to criticise climate scientists in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit
ISPs Hit Back At Digital Economy Bill
The ISPA has mounted an attack against Lord Mandelson's strategy to deal with illegal file-sharers, laid out in the government's Digital Economy Bill
Twitter To Launch Paid-For Business Accounts
Twitter has confirmed its plans to launch paid-for corporate accounts, designed to bring in new revenue streams for the micro-blogging site
Call of Duty Carries Recruitment Ad For GCHQ
Gamers playing Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox Live platform will encounter recruitment adverts for a secretive arm of British intelligence
Salesforce Offers ‘Facebook For Businesses’ With Chatter
Salesforce.com is seeking to replicate the social networking phenomenon by offering its users a collaboration tool with a Facebook-like interface
Twitter Users Offered MMS Tweets Via Orange UK
Twitter user who are looking to submit pictures to the social network from their mobile phones can now do by using MMS on Orange UK handsets
2010 To See Android Flood And iPhone Price Cuts
Next year will see a plethora of new phones on Android and other operating systems, but smartphones won't consolidate for two years, says analyst Canalys
LinkedIn And Twitter Partner Up For Status Updates
LinkedIn and Twitter have partnered up so that users can push their LinkedIn status updates out to their Twitter accounts
Cisco Steps Up To Google, Microsoft And IBM
Guido Jouret, CTO of Cisco's emerging technologies group, explains how Cisco solutions such as Pulse, Show and Share are different from existing offerings from Cisco's competitors
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Released
Microsoft announces during the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin that Exchange Server 2010 is now in general release
Hands On: Nokia N900 – A Good Cheap Option?
Nokia may have started from the idea of a pocket computer, but this is a geek-friendly Linux smartphone that straddles the desktop/phone divide
Industry Must Tackle IPv4 Depletion
The IT industry has ignored the availability of IPv6 addresses for too long at the risk of adding unnecessary risk and complexity to internet architectures, says Axel Pawlik, managing director of RIPE NCC.
Spammers And Botnets Change Tactics
Internet villains are learning from their mistakes, and now they can come back quickly even when their ISPs are shut down, security researchers say
Tech and Internet Use Not Isolating People
The idea that the Internet is responsible for a lack of socialisation and the increasing isolation of people has been rubbished by the findings of a new report
Cisco Believes Tandberg Offer Is Fair
Cisco is playing hard ball after an executive said that its takeover offer of $3 billion for Tandberg is a fair price for the video conferencing rival
Broadband In Kenya: Small Steps For Big Rewards
The first broadband centre opened in Kenya earlier this year, but what effect will faster internet access have on a largely agricultural community, and how has the service been received so far?
Twitter Rolls Out Lists Beta
Twitter has this week made live a beta of Twitter Lists, a new feature to let users organise their contacts into various groups
Facebook Wins £430 Million Payout Against Spam King
Social networking giant Facebook has won a staggering $711 million (£429 million) in damages against so called 'spam king' Sanford Wallace
Facebook Outlines Future Developer Strategy
Facebook is to reveal the road map for developers over the next six months, as part of its plans to stay at the top of the social networking media heap
Business Users Will Want A Part Of Vodafone 360
Consumers always get first bite of any technology now - and business users will feel left out when Vodafone 360 launches, says Peter Judge
Google Wave Rumoured To Launch In 2010
The much-hyped Google Wave collaboration tool could be out of beta and formally launched - with an app store - by the end of 2010