Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott is a former freelance journalist and currently political reporter for Sky News. She has a varied writing history, having started her career at Dennis Publishing, working in various roles across its business technology titles, including ITPro. Jennifer has specialised in a number of areas over the years and has produced a wealth of content for ITPro, focusing largely on data storage, networking, cloud computing, and telecommunications.
Most recently Jennifer has turned her skills to the political sphere and broadcast journalism, where she has worked for the BBC as a political reporter, before moving to Sky News.
Latest articles by Jennifer Scott
Timeline: Microsoft’s Bing
By Jennifer Scott published
News On the search engine’s second birthday, we take a look back at the events that shaped the past 24 months.
Three UK names new CEO
By Jennifer Scott published
News David Dyson will take over from Kevin Russell as of 1 July.
Orange squeezes Apple fans with iPad/iPhone combo
By Jennifer Scott published
News The mobile operator is offering both the iPad 2 and iPhone 4 on a joint £65 per month contract.
Oracle ditches Open Office
By Jennifer Scott published
News The software giant ‘donates’ the open source office suite to the Apache Foundation.
UK gets Eutelsat satellite broadband
By Jennifer Scott published
News The KA-SAT satellite will offer 50Mbps broadband to UK businesses.
Polycom picks up HP’s Halo
By Jennifer Scott published
News The unified communications specialist adds to its arsenal with HP’s telepresence offering.
EMEA follows suit with server success
By Jennifer Scott published
News IDC targets its server revenue research at EMEA and the results look good.
BT and ZTE team for telecoms research
By Jennifer Scott published
News The UK giant gets together with its Chinese counterpart to research the future of telecoms.
Nokia ‘substantial’ sales drop cancels 2011 outlook
By Jennifer Scott published
News The phone manufacturer’s second quarter set to end in tears as market share takes a nose dive.
Twitter hands over tweeter details to Council
By Jennifer Scott published
News Cuts to front-line services may be in full swing across the UK, but it seems South Tyneside Council had a contingency plan for taking on the big boys overseas.
EU investigates hardware takeovers
By Jennifer Scott published
News Both Seagate and Western Digital are put under scrutiny by the EU for antitrust purposes.
Week in Review: Ballmer bullied, Skype screwed and PayPal
By Jennifer Scott published
News This week, Ballmer faces criticism, Skype falls down and PayPal is out for Google’s cash.
BT and TalkTalk appeal DEA judicial review
By Jennifer Scott published
News The ISPs may have lost their initial judicial review of the Digital Economy Act, but they haven’t given up hope.
Next wave of rural broadband roll-out confirmed
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Government divvies up a portion of its £530 million broadband budget for roll-out in Wiltshire, Norfolk, Devon and Somerset.
NetApp shows off 30 per cent revenue rise
By Jennifer Scott published
News The storage heavyweights report impressive results for fiscal year 2011.
Cookie law will be ‘phased-in’ over 12 months
By Jennifer Scott published
News Despite becoming EU law at midnight, the UK Government has said the new directive for internet cookies will not come into force ‘overnight.’
Twitter buys TweetDeck
By Jennifer Scott published
News The small start-up from the UK gets snapped up by the US social networking giant.
Apple advises on Mac Defender threat
By Jennifer Scott published
News After swathes of reports about malicious anti-virus software for Macs, Apple finally gives advice to users and offers an OS update ‘in the coming days.’
BT joins with Everything Everywhere for 4G trials
By Jennifer Scott published
News The telecoms giant will work alongside the mobile merger to offer 4G connectivity to rural Cornwall.
CIOs claim cloud computing 'over-hyped'
By Jennifer Scott published
News The latest survey on the buzzword technology shows CIO challenges remain the same, regardless of the cloud.
Server success dominates Q1
By Jennifer Scott published
News The start of 2011 has seen the whole server market improve - much to the delight of hardware vendors.
EMC hires for top UK job
By Jennifer Scott published
News James Petter will head up the UK and Ireland for the storage giant.
Berners-Lee: Twitter should be more 'sophisticated'
By Jennifer Scott published
News The founder of the World Wide Web claims the microblogging service is no place for 'reasoned discussion.'
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