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News Most UK firms realise the need for high-performance telecommunications infrastructure, but struggle to implement and realise investment in its technologies.

News The data protection watchdog has strengthened its criticisms of the government’s plans to share data with private organisations to fight crime and terrorism.

News Accountancy firm haysmcintyre rolls out unified communications to boost disaster recovery plans and cut costs.

News A survey of information security professionals has found that the cloud and software as a service are leading organisations to boost their security.

News The IT vendor just managed to scrape increases in revenue, posting first quarter results that relied heavily on its recent EDS acquisition.

News Despite a positive outlook on their careers, the latest research has shown the glass ceiling for women in IT has not yet broken.

News Tools to extend marketing strategies top this year’s online agenda, according to a new Adobe survey.

News Fujitsu will take a loss on the sale of parts of its storage division, while Toshiba looks to grow its market share to 20 per cent through the acquisition.

News The Midlands force is making the most of its new mobile devices by providing training to cut 30 minutes of administrative time from each shift.

News The two software giants sign a patent-free interoperability deal to tie up the competition in the virtualisation space.

News The era of the mini-laptop or netbook is here, confirms IDC, as it predicts sustained growth that will support the PC market through 2009.

News A UK-based IT security consultancy has supplied Wi-Fi meshing technology as part of new communications systems designed to help tackle Somalian piracy.

News The University of the Arts London has developed an initial managed desktop investment to connect 21 sites and cut support calls by 50 per cent.

News Google adds detail to plans to woo more developers, meaning all applications will no longer be free, as has been the case since the launch of its mobile apps store.

News The Star Alliance airline has taken on a new e-commerce platform to grow its online shopping business and provide integration to its loyalty programme.

News In an attempt to combat the worm that’s been plaguing the internet, the software giant is offering a $250,000 reward for information on the gang responsible.

News A new European study into the technology tools used to increase collaboration in the workplace has revealed they are found wanting in efficiency and security.

News An ongoing row over sharing broadband spectrum has spurred the communications minister to call the mobile operators into negotiations.

News Microsoft has plugged SQL Server holes that it admitted to knowing about in December as part of four security updates released in its monthly bulletin.

News Staples has bought Oracle software to automate change control management for meeting compliance requirements, like PCI and SOX.

News The energy supplier has used application baselining technology to track performance as part of a major server consolidation it has just completed.

News IDC’s annual survey has found IT managers are looking for quick-fix solutions to save on storage expenditure during the economic downturn.

News French Connection has completed the roll out of new fraud monitoring systems in the US, following an earlier, successful deployment to all of its UK stores.

News The database guru becomes the latest high-profile figure to leave the Sun in the last few months.

News Interest in open source technologies is increasing in response to exponential enterprise data integration growth, a new survey suggests.