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January 31
- UCLH selects Nexthink for IT infrastructure health check
- Windows 9 wants, Google outages & Lloyds crashes: IT Pro's web comments round-up
- Superfast broadband coverage extended across Devon & Somerset
- Yahoo thwarts web mail cyber attack
- IBM successfully transmits text using graphene-based circuit
January 30
- IBM Special Report: Are you a social business?
- EMC ViPR gets Hadoop big data analytics boost
- HP Autonomy has a new IDOL
- Facebook Paper to make US debut on 3 February
- KPMG calls for banking sector tech investment overhaul
January 29
- Government to step up SMB IT procurement ahead of 2015 election
- BBC slammed by watchdog over failed DMI project
- IBM launches digital customer experience consultancy
January 28
- Framestore turns to Nexenta for storage management
- Global smartphone shipments hit record 1bn units in 2013
- GCHQ and NSA accused of using Angry Birds and Google Maps to nab user data
- The technology behind social media
January 27
- Samsung and Google sign 10-year patent-sharing pledge
- BBC CTO axed over failed IT project
- Microsoft confirms law enforcement docs stolen during recent hacks
- HP server failure takes blame for Lloyds Banking Group's tech woes
- Google blames software bug for Friday night Gmail outage
- Google to acquire AI company DeepMind
January 24
- Apple Mac 30th anniversary: Tracking the Mac through time
- Penalty-free broadband & mobile provider switching secured by Ofcom
- Cabinet Office rapped for slow FOI request response times
- Microsoft makes $6bn profit & sees Surface tablet sales soar
January 23
- BT sets fibre broadband record with 1.4Tbps connection
- Three banned from using "3.9G" to describe network speeds by ASA
- Facebook use will "die out" by 2017, researchers claim
- CIOs must adapt to digital challenges or face extinction
- Lenovo drops $2.3 billion to buy IBM's x86 server business
- VMware splashes out $1.54bn on mobile security firm Airwatch
January 22
- Lenovo backs Windows devices for the classroom
- BlackBerry enterprise chief questions Samsung Knox security
- Samsung bets Chromebook use to grow 4x in 2014
- Online porn filter "blocks" League of Legends game patch
- Hackers access 16 million German email accounts
- Facebook fake video spam campaigns continue
- Google Glass wearer's cinema trip cut short over piracy claims
- iOS 8 adoption slows after almost reaching 70 per cent
January 21
- Microsoft Office blog defaced by hackers
- Ofcom green lights superfast broadband use on planes, trains and ships
- Digital UK slams reuse of TV spectrum for mobile broadband
- Announcing the winners of the IT Pro Awards
January 20
- Surface Pro 2 faulty firmware patched
- EE BrightBox router could expose customer data
- Intel rubbishes reports of 5,400 job cuts
- Google removes two Chrome extensions for spamming users
January 17
- Vodafone wants to blow whistle on surveillance requests
- Cyber criminals hack Internet of Things and smart devices, research shows
- NSA accused of collecting 200 million text messages a day
- TalkTalk makes stand against nuisance calls
- Windows XP and BYOD failures: IT Pro's web comments round-up
- Tech City CEO Joanna Shields to step down
- Google working on smart contact lens for diabetics
January 16
- Ubuntu Touch smartphone 2014 release by major OEM unlikely
- Microsoft admits Syrian Electronic Army email and social media hack
- Google loses High Court bid to have Apple Safari snooping case heard in US
- Windows XP support for Security Essentials extended to July 2015
- Apple will refund $32.5m to customers
January 15
- Windows 8 gets Chrome OS features in Google browser update
- Government's £10m broadband innovation fund to open on 17 March
- Nutanix snaps up $101m in Series D funding
- NSA accused of bugging 100,000 PCs across the globe
- Researchers create cyber attack strike time formula
- GoDaddy to offer Office 365 to SMBs
January 14
- Moto X review: First look
- Botched IT project costs MoD millions
- TfL swaps IBM for Capita to run Congestion Charge scheme
- European Commission demands UHF use reforms for internet users
- Google to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion
January 13
- UK SMS text message use fell for first time in 2013
- Fifth of enterprise BYOD projects doomed to fail by 2016, claims Gartner
- Government urges SMBs to get "streetwise" on cyber security
January 10
- Dell gears up for major job cuts across US and EMEA
- O2 calls time on mobile payments service after 18 months
January 9
- UK Government vows to be "G8's most digital" by 2015
- Royal Surrey County Hospital swaps Microsoft for Novell
- Samsung Galaxy S5 could feature iris-scanning technology
- Best of CES 2014: Intel dominates trade show full of promise
- The power of innovation
- The innovation environment
- The dawn of the Internet of Everything
- IBM creates $1bn Watson business group
- EE and Vodafone to switch on Channel Tunnel 4G network
January 8
- Facebook snaps up Android app monitoring start-up
- BBC iPlayer tablet use overtakes PC viewing for first time
- BlackBerry CEO: "Turnaround won't rely on touchscreen phones"
January 7
- Autonomy faces US Air Force "financial irregularity" claims
- EE celebrates signing up two million 4G customers
- Panasonic debuts 7in Toughpad tablet with Core i5 power
- Intel unveils Edison - a PC the size of an SD card
- Intel ditches the McAfee brand name
January 6
- Pirate Bay anti-ISP block browser gets update
- Yahoo serves up New Year malware to European customers
- Staysure hack leaves customers’ finances vulnerable
- Google embarks on Android-powered connected car push
January 3
- Facebook hit by private message snooping claims
- Snapchat hack prompts release of updated messaging app
January 2
- First Google Glass prescription lens pricing announced
- Public trust government most with private data
- HP job cuts to hit 34,000 staff as "market pressures" bite
- ARM, Ofcom and Tech City chiefs make New Year Honours List
- Google bumps off mobile apps