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January 31
- Sandy Bridge chipset flaw costs Intel
- Last Cyber Security Challenge finalists named
- Boffins aim for 100-fold web speed increase
- Super silicon successor spotted?
- Ofcom threatens big money fines for silent calling
- Microsoft warns of Windows zero-day
- AASIP gives IPv6 as standard
- Manchester Airport employs holograms
- Digital Economy Act supporters have their say
- Gingerbread data-stealing flaw discovered
January 28
- TalkTalk to cut 580 jobs
- Week in review: Public Wi-Fi isn't dead yet, Apple security tsar's crazy idea
- Amazon results disappoint
- Google unveils Android 3.0 SDK preview
- FBI issues Anonymous warrants
- MP slams Google for anti-competitive practices
- Mobile market continues to boom
- Nokia profits fall
- ASA consults on ISP speed claims
- Tech giants mark Data Privacy Day
January 27
- VMware launches Go Pro for SMBs
- Sky confirms The Cloud acquisition
- Could a vulnerability tax work?
- Mobile contactless payments coming this summer
- Police make Anonymous arrests
- Citrix revenues up 17 per cent
- Symantec results better than expected
- Most employees admit ‘risk taking’
- Intel’s McAfee acquisition gets EU thumbs up
- The return of Big ERP?
January 26
- Google on hiring spree in 2011
- SAP profits struck down by Oracle litigation
- Mozilla releases 10th Firefox beta
- Amazon Simple Email Service launched
- Virgin Media Business to power London school network
- Mobile app revenue to explode by 1,000 per cent
- Zuckerberg Facebook page hacked
- O2 launches free Wi-Fi venture
January 25
- ACS:Law stops chasing filesharers
- Virgin Media's 100Mbps roll-out gathers pace
- App stores: A security time bomb?
- Unions slam BBC job cuts
- Google trumps Mozilla with opt-out feature
- Apple appoints new security chief
- Eric Schmidt confirms ‘Innovation Hub’ for Silicon Roundabout
January 24
- Fresh Windows Phone 7 jailbreak set for release
- Government website logins for sale?
- BBC cuts online budget by 25 per cent
- Google ups webspam fight
- ID cards decommissioned
- Mozilla proposes 'Do Not Track' feature in Firefox
- Google accused of more Java pilfering
January 21
- Week in review: CEO musical chairs; sneaky Stuxnet
- Over 400,000 organ donation details stored incorrectly
- Lush customer details stolen by hackers
- Tablets dampen PC sales in EMEA
- Google turns a new Page
- Cloud computing a CIO favourite for 2011
- BT provides free Wi-Fi for iPads
- 2010 a ‘busy year’ for Mac security threats
- HTC profits leap 160 per cent
- Trapster passwords leaked after hack?
January 20
- UK spam doubles despite global decline
- Acer not ditching netbooks
- Panda warns of cyber black market
- Cloud computing ‘remains a mystery’ to SMEs
- Ofcom orders BT Wholesale price cuts
- 3 offers 15GB iPad deal
- A local cloud for local people
- Anti-cloud malware detected
- Sony Ericsson predicts "modest growth" in 2011
January 19
- Imperva CTO blasts Oracle patching
- Sage launches SaaS offering
- Microsoft introduces Attack Surface Analyser
- IBM finishes 2010 on a high
- Sophos recommends ‘walled garden’ to Facebook
- Why private Facebook photos aren’t so private
- Stuxnet developers made ‘too many mistakes’
January 18
- iPad ‘almost exclusively’ responsible for tablet surge
- IBM extends ARM chip collaboration
- Fraud management budgets to remain 'stagnant'
- Attack kit spike making cyber crime easy
- EMC announces new deduple and backup systems
- Police to Tweet on the beat in Tayside
- Facebook backtracks on data sharing plans
- Does the NHS lack IT skills?
January 17
- Oracle to patch 66 security flaws
- Sainsbury’s IT pro busted for Nectar points scam
- Apple iOS 4.3 handed out to developers
- No more scheduled downtime for Google Apps
- Facebook sharing addresses and phone numbers?
- Google OS to dominate by 2015?
- BT reveals the cost to share its ducts
- Lane-Fox scheme to flog sub-£100 PCs
- Cyber Security Challenge finalists unveiled
January 14
- Cyber Security Challenge goes face-to-face
- Head to Head: Intel AppUp vs Apple Mac App Store
- SAP claims record revenues for Q4
- Top 10 facts about Wikipedia
- Unified comms market to double by 2014
- Internet giants to test IPv6
- Waledac back from the dead
January 13
- Apple's app-happy Mac App Store
- Businesses vulnerable with ‘antiquated’ logins
- BlackBerry fixes critical Enterprise Server flaw
- Vodafone eyes SMB market with new offer
- Google rolls out conversation translation
- Mobile providers push prices up under VAT cover
- SAP boosts security with SECUDE acquisition
- North-East competition offers innovators £20,000 support
January 12
- BT hands 41 market towns fibre broadband
- T-Mobile backtracks on data cap after Ofcom pressure
- Samsung aims new range at educators
- Microsoft warns IE flaw is being exploited
- ASUS Eee tablet range: First look video
- Orange introduces Pocket Landline for SMBs
- Google to drop H.264 codec from Chrome
- ASUS to launch application store at CeBIT
- SOCA signs £157 million outsourcing deal
- Love of gadgets fueling rise in street crime
- Microsoft contests Apple App Store patent
January 11
- ‘Snapshot’ survey reveals extent of online piracy
- Irish opposition party hacked by Anonymous?
- Mobile broadband subscriptions to hit one billion?
- Microsoft investigates potential Windows Phone 7 glitch
- UK fifth worst for spam relaying
- AMD chief makes shock departure
- Oracle faces $100 million lawsuit
January 10
- Ex-Channel 4 chief slams Google
- T-Mobile halves data usage policy
- Trend Micro launches Android security app
- Small businesses ignore social networking
- Facebook closure rumour gets out of hand
- Government set to embrace cloud computing?
- Fraud cases hit record levels in 2010
January 7
- Motorola Xoom review: First Look
- Week in Review: Tablet frenzy at CES, VAT hiked to 20 per cent
- Google supes up email authentication
- Amazon revamps cloud computing support
- Visa tech claims $1.5 billion fraud savings
- Salesforce buys Dimdim
- EMC engineer steals $1 million of tech gear
January 6
- Government outlines £200 million tech centre plans
- Ofcom: 2G can be used for 3G connectivity
- Apple Mac App Store goes live
- Gartner raises 2011 IT spending forecast
- Microsoft chances its ARM
- Microsoft introduces Touch Mouse at CES
- LG unveils iPad rival G-Slate
- Motorola launches tablet and smartphone at CES
- Microsoft skips over Intel for ARM tablet device
- RIM to launch 4G PlayBook
- LinkedIn to go public?
January 5
- Third of all malware created in 2010
- Roundup: CES 2011
- Mozilla Firefox is Europe's favourite browser
- Asus unveils Eee tablet range
- Christmas spam in shock fall
- Amazon opens up Appstore to Android developers
- DRAM prices plunge
- Public workers slammed for data snooping
- Motorola split comes into action
- Microsoft investigates Windows zero-day flaw
January 4
- Dell buys into security with SecureWorks
- IE zero-day leaked to China?
- Facebook valued at $50 billion after cash injection
- BT’s Content Connect to threaten net neutrality?
- Anonymous takes on Tunisian Government
- Intel launches ‘ultra-small’ SSD
- AMD hails Fusion era
- Chrome nears 10 per cent market share
- BT public vote chooses broadband locations
- Microsoft apologises for Hotmail fail