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News Following the announcement of a cut in T-Mobile’s Android G1 handset US pricing, rumours fly that the same will happen in the UK and that O2 will follow suit with price cuts for the iPhone too.

News Forrester has published a new software-as-as-service market report, predicting where the delivery model will gain or lack traction over the next decade.

News The supermarket giant updates mission-critical sales systems with new blade-based virtualisation platform for increased efficiency and performance.

News The decline in growth throughout the global technology market will remove over $40 billion of what would have been IT spending from the banking sector over next five years.

News Microsoft has issued three patches as part of its monthly security update schedule, but has not fixed a recently discovered flaw in Excel.

News Companies should look to access management to prevent internal fraud in a recession, Garter has said.

News Operations for the charity’s ‘Do Something Funny for Money’ campaign will rely on more cost and carbon effective in-house server and storage systems, as physical servers are cut to a fifth.

News Jack Straw has bowed to pressure from civil liberty groups and public sector bodies, including the Information Commissioner, to scrap controversial clause 152 in the Justice Bill.

News The UK academic and research network has upgraded a regional infrastructure to deliver enhanced electronic learning facilities to 3.4 million staff and students.

News The parent of mobile operator Orange has reported full-year financial results where slight turnover and profit increases were swallowed up by tax hikes.

News Professionals from eight healthcare organisations have joined the call for medical records to be left out of proposed legislation to increase government data-sharing powers.

News The economic downturn is hurting mobile phone sales, according to new research.

News New research by the TUC has found IT professionals are doing six hours unpaid overtime a week, highlighting the need for its “Work Your Proper Hours” campaign.

News Apple’s release of its Safari 4 beta has helped push it beyond the 10 per cent threshold for the first time.

News John Linwood, the former Former Yahoo social networking guru, is set to join the BBC in April, having left the internet search giant last month.

News Oxford University Press is using workforce management software to increase output, cut fulfilment costs and save £100,000 a year from its staffing budget.

News The networking giant’s head has vetoed any large, consumer or device acquisitions, quashing rumours it was in the market to buy RIM.

News The system that holds data key to the ID cards programme has been breached by staff in over 30 local authorities, the government department has admitted.

News LG and Samsung are top of UK consumers’ hit list when it comes to problematic mobile handsets, prompting them to look for more stripped down models.

News Virgin Games has taken on new software to provide more accurate and targeted customer communications and increase marketing results.

News The Midlands learning institution has signed a four-year strategic outsourcing deal to overhaul almost its entire IT and communications infrastructure.

News SAP's new UK director Stephen Read tells IT PRO about his plans to grow the software giant’s midsized business with a multichannel, volume-led model.

News The Information Tribunal has upheld the original Information Commissioner’s order that the ID cards’ Gateway Reviews should be published.

News A security vendor has released details of a new SMS mobile worm that uses a breakthrough propagation strategy and is targeting mobiles running the Symbian operating system.