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March 31
- Novell sets up Linux netbook team
- Firefox 3 overtakes IE7 in Europe
- Decline in IT spending to be worse than dot com burst
- Europe needs protection against cyber attack
- University offers social networking course
- Monthly Roundup: March Madness
- Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon arrival set to give AMD a tough time
- Google launches venture capital fund
- TomTom and Microsoft declare patent war ceasefire
- Microsoft reveals partners for mobile apps store
March 30
- Parallels boosts virtualisation graphics
- HP gives sneak peak at Skyroom video conferencing
- HP launches next-gen Proliant servers
- HP workstations push space, travel and film boundaries
- HP unveils 'rock star' Z-Series workstations
- EU calls for 'new green deal' for IT
- IBM's open cloud plans to float away?
- Internet users unhappy with ISPs
- Fraudsters publish credit card details on web
- Pirate Bay launches its own VPN for €5
March 29
- Week in Numbers: Privacy online
March 27
- Competition Terms and Conditions
- Dreamworks 3D movie-making powered by HP
- Conficker worm hits the House of Commons network
- Opera launches new Mobile 9.7 browser
- Cybercrime more profitable than drugs
- Week in Review: Kids twittering
- Ubuntu releases Jaunty Jackalope beta
- Vodafone offers free SMS tweets for UK users
- Many want a break from digital lifestyle
- Mozilla rushing out update for Firefox flaws
March 26
- Broadband and mobile prices fall, EU says
- Cisco patches eight security vulnerabilities
- Google adds voice control to mobile app for Blackberry
- IBM announces job cuts in North America
- iPhone users addicted to mobile web
- Lenovo launches two new workstations
- Enterprises turning to Twitter, says Gartner
- Idle computers waste £300 million a year
- Smartphone security survives hacking tournament
- Small net firms will drive more jobs, says Vint Cerf
- Today in history: The Queen's first email
- Dell launches new servers, workstations
March 25
- Analysis: Is snooping on Facebook a step too far?
- Linux routers and modems targeted by ‘Psybot’
- Students to be taught Twitter in school?
- Microsoft and NASA to put universe on the web
- Critical HP OpenView flaws discovered
- ContactPoint child database 'paused' over security
- Google adds semantic search
- Economy to boost open source, says Sun chief
March 24
- Virgin: No market for 150Mbps broadband?
- Microsoft updates servers with Power Pack 2
- Designer quits Google over data focus
- Camden health trust rapped over missing PCs
- Novell releases SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
- TomTom teams with Linux defence group
- Ada Lovelace day celebrates women in IT
- 3 unveils new 15GB mobile broadband tariff
- Privacy group calls for ICO to shut down Street View
- Security risk to 'smart grids'
- Teamwork low as employees focus on job security
March 23
- Open letter asks for Phorm boycott
- Search engines lead to fake anti-virus
- Asus chief exec reveals folding laptop details
- Video: Opera's Turbo tech
- A quarter of government databases called 'illegal'
- Microsoft crashes in with open-source security tool
- Should ICO get spot check powers over businesses?
- BT reveals first super-fast broadband sites
- Skype launches business based beta
March 20
- Online banking fraud rises by 132 per cent
- Bleak job market creating data thieves, says Visa chief
- Researchers expose potential exploit of Intel CPUs
- Google Street View's first bumpy 24 hours
- Microsoft drops Honeycomb grid from Windows Mobile
- Brits vote ‘yes’ to e-government services
- Week in Review: Google Street View controversy
- Is Cisco changing its strategy?
March 19
- Social networking helps Bletchley Park win award
- Government accused of Second Life 'indulgence'
- Card-not-present fraud up 13 per cent
- Government could start snooping on Facebook
- Twitter denies text advertising rumours
- NetSuite launches application store
- Apple Safari hacked in matter of seconds
- Google’s Street View hits the UK
- Analysis: How an IBM/Sun deal could change the IT industry
- Firefox and IE battle it out in browser wars
- Internet Explorer 8 ready for download today
March 18
- Microsoft updates Silverlight and outlines Azure
- Home Office confused about child porn blacklisters
- Apple users shouldn’t have ‘false sense of security’
- Police computer to link up with missing phone register
- Co-op's ATM supplier hit by Russian hackers
- Brits ignore mobile security basics
- HTC to launch 'at least' three Android phones this year
- Kids online twice as much as parents think
- Mozilla releases Fennec mobile browser beta
- Apple updates iPhone software, adds cut and paste
- Google updates Chrome browser
- IBM looking to buy Sun for £4.6 billion?
March 17
- Your Views: Tim Berners-Lee's web
- T-Mobile launches new email service
- US sales of Apple Mac computers fall by 16 per cent
- TfL puts underground mobile phone plans on hold
- Waledac spammers fake ‘bomb blast’ news story
- Ericsson shows off 500Mbps over copper wires
- Tim Berners-Lee fell for internet scam
- Dell Adamo takes on Macbook Air
- Tough times to drive mobile coupons use up 30 per cent
- A fifth of homes don't want broadband claims Ofcom
- Mobile web usage doubles
- 6,000 small businesses a day joining Twitter, claims O2
- Battle of the Betas - 4-way browser head-to-head
March 16
- Cisco to clash head on with HP in server move
- Linux surges as recession hits IT industry
- Europeans working on wireless ‘speedier than 4G’
- New digital rights agency to be industry led?
- Is voice risk analysis a sound investment?
- UK price cuts for iPhone and T-Mobile's G1 Google phone?
- Visa says RBS Worldpay and Heartland not PCI compliant
March 13
- OLPC may switch to ARM for XO laptop
- UK ISPs forced to keep customer data by EU
- Has O2 snatched the Palm Pre from Vodafone?
- Should the BBC botnet have hijacked 22,000 computers?
- Facebook available in Arabic and Hebrew
- Week in Numbers: Facebook over Gmail?
- Collaboration, web conferencing tops for SaaS
- Clouds, virtualisation run Red Nose Day for Comic Relief
- Week in Review: How a Brit set the web free
- Tesco virtualisation cuts carbon and costs
- Apple to show off iPhone 3.0 software
March 12
- Bletchley Park wins even more funding
- Paid-for Android apps hit the UK
- BBC buys botnet to highlight cybercrime
- Photos: The web turns 20
- Microsoft pays mobile app developers 70 per cent
- Conficker worm "getting a lot uglier"
- $40 billion wiped off banks' IT spending
- National Semiconductor to cull 1,725 jobs
- Google introduces voice to text service
- eBay details revenue boosting plans
March 11
- Your Views: Wolfram Alpha has the answer
- Google's Android gets first update
- Nokia’s smartphone lead starts to slip
- Google starts tracking users for better ads
- HackersBlog finds BT.com flaw
- Adobe finally patches PDF flaw
- Turing Award goes to Barbara Liskov
- New agency to sort digital woes, says Lord Carter
- Apple readying 10in touchscreen computer?
- Microsoft patches address kernel, DNS flaws
- Video: Pat Sueltz, part two
March 10
- Today in history: The first telephone call
- More downtime for Gmail
- Mac use in business on the rise, says survey
- Dell gets tough with XFR laptop
- Identity and access controls key in recession
- Don’t forget the cost of spam, warns McAfee
- Microsoft comments spur Yahoo deal talk
- Obama lifts stem cell funding ban
- Comic Relief goes for green systems
- Lib Dems warn on Google’s Latitude phone tracker
March 9
- Social networking surpasses personal email
- Nokia preparing for app store battle
- Will Android follow the iPhone's web success?
- USB drive lost by police was not encrypted
- British scientist takes on Google with Wolfram Alpha
- Hackers thanked for exposing Telegraph flaw
- Ofcom to rank broadband providers on speed
- Motorola MC55 handset targets enterprise
- Government scraps data sharing plans
- Fewer foreign IT workers head to UK
- Orange trials 20Mbps broadband
March 7
- Analysis: DEMO not what it used to be
March 6
- Facebook looks to Twitter with site changes
- Open source to help Android overtake iPhone by 2012
- Week in Numbers: Browser wars continue
- Microsoft to patch three flaws next week
- Week in Review: Is the Queen really on Twitter?
- ICO shuts down firm selling private worker data
- HTC Magic Google phone coming next month
- Firefox has more bugs than Internet Explorer
March 5
- HRH the Queen: To Tweet or not to Tweet?
- Bletchley Park in good health thanks to support
- Vista SP2 Release Candidate available for download
- DEMO 09: Emerging tech hardware highs
- Half of firms gaining real benefits from virtualisation
- Security woes hit Spotify music service
- O2 device to help families Joggle their lives
- JANET signs £4.5m West Midlands e-learning deal
March 4
- Nortel denies plans to escape Chapter 11 by mid-year
- France Telecom profits shrink 35 per cent
- Students need more IT challenges
- EDS wins $1 billion deal with Aviva
- Health professionals call for Justice Bill exemption
- SpinVox and Skype cosy up on voicemail
- CeBit 2009: News from the show
- Double-digit decline for servers
- Social networks on Yahoo radar
March 3
- Apple brings ‘Nehalem’ to Mac Pro line
- Police get national gun ballistic database
- Fujitsu Siemens reveals ‘zero-watt’ PCs
- Downturn takes hold in mobile markets
- More security threats hit Facebook
- A third of kids face cyberbullying
- Ofcom gives BT green light to next-gen broadband
March 2
- AVG adds behaviour detection in security upgrade
- Networks baulk at Skype on Nokia N97
- Microsoft to charge £10 for hosted SharePoint and Exchange
- Security software talks back to thieves
- IT staff overworked and underpaid
- Safari 4 beta grows Apple’s market share
- Video: Users won't tolerate slow websites
- Online retail to make gains despite recession
- Microsoft's bid cost Yahoo $79 million
- Record decline for PC shipments, says Gartner