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September 30
- Microsoft won't be setting Windows Mobile free
- Photos: Future of sustainable work?
- Microsoft launches new licensing program
- ARM teams with IBM on chips
- Businesses will struggle keeping ‘cloud’ data safe
- Process optimisation faces skills challenges
- NHS trust takes on USB security
- O2's broadband the fastest, but still slower than advertised
- TSMC: 28nm chips to hit in 2010
- NHS data encryption like ‘700 new customers’ for McAfee
- MI6 camera sells on eBay
- Telcos and tech unite behind mobile broadband
September 29
- Nokia shies away from business mobility
- Gartner warns against confusion over clouds
- UK businesses push open source adoption
- Second-hand VPN leads to security breach at council
- First look: Android-based T-Mobile G1
- MI6 uses Facebook to recruit spies
- Security tech fails without awareness
- Three hard drives stolen from RAF
- Panasonic rules out netbook
- European leaders want broadband for all
- Gartner: Hackers are not winning
- Government launches internet watchdog
- Panasonic takes ToughBooks consumer with Dixons deal
September 28
- Photos: Panasonic ToughBook factory tour
September 26
- Teachers learn about data breaches
- Nokia set to release first touch screen phone
- How green is your data centre?
- Wireless market facing further consolidation
- Exclusive Photos: RIM's BlackBerry Javelin
- Week in Review: Google Android hype starts here
- Mobiles phones lead on-the-go web access
- Visa plans Google Android and Nokia apps
- Lloyds TSB extends mobile banking
September 25
- Problems ahead for femtocell rollout
- Windows 7 Alpha to be available to developers
- Analysis: Nokia bets on Linux and Symbian
- Cisco moves to plug router software flaws
- Photos: Government unveils first ID cards
- UPDATED: BT exchange break-in cuts service - again
- ‘Father of the internet’ warns on IP address drought
- Panasonic reveals new ToughBook range
- New software certification to stem vulnerabilities
- Schools finally get access to open source
- Egham reigns as UK spam capital
- New mainframe apprenticeship looks to fill skills gap
- Google offers $10 million for ‘world changing ideas’
- Sussex Police automates buying
- Infrastructure improvements key for carrier survival
- Companies hiding data breaches
- Oracle and HP team up on data warehousing
September 24
- EU to force operators to split network and retail
- Brown promises £300m to get people online
- Brits want data breaches criminalised
- National Express to optimise rail revenue
- NHS denies it will 'sell' patient data to businesses
- ICO urges consumers to take control of their data
- Chrome's market share stagnates
- PDF and Flash files under threat from cryptic code
- Finland considers web monitoring after shooting
- Touchscreen BlackBerry expected before Christmas
- Fujitsu and Siemens discuss ending joint venture
- Dell targets emerging markets with store PCs
September 23
- Dell defends green IT strategy
- Google announces T-Mobile G1 Android phone
- Mayor wants London covered in Wi-Fi
- Web 2.0 to change business?
- IBM looks to open standards
- The big, bad world of the web is getting worse
- Ofcom leaves next-generation broadband to market forces
- Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008 ready for launch
- France planning new 3G auction
- Mobile networks join forces for advertising push
September 22
- McAfee buys Secure Computing for £258 million
- Lloyds TSB union calls for end to offshoring
- Timeline: CERN’s LHC Experiment
- Defra goes custom to manage projects
- LHC shuts down after helium leak
- US passes stronger ID theft laws
- Carphone bids for Tiscali to become UK’s biggest ISP
- NHS doctors need permission to access patient records
- Apple recalls iPhone 3G charger
- Siemens wants out of joint venture
- Roaming text messaging costs to be capped
September 19
- Cisco buys Jabber to expand interoperability
- T-Mobile ushers in dawn of £2 PAYG mobile broadband
- Week in Review: Axe falls on HP jobs
- Photos: A week at VMWorld 2008
- Mick Jagger rocks EU e-commerce debate
- Lloyds TSB/HBOS deal targets IT cost savings
- AMD rebrands to shed geeky image
- Wall Street and City banking chaos hits mobile firms
- Orange unveils unlimited tariff for business
- Toshiba adds to netbook tally
- Oracle results beat expectations
September 18
- CBRE to save millions virtualising desktops
- Desktops ready to go virtual?
- The 12 month contract is dead
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9 available free on Vodafone
- SAP’s silence on Business ByDesign speaks volumes
- HSBC data centre achieves green standard UK first
- Londoners lose mobiles in cabs en masse
- Intel claims record-breaking Xeon performance
- Cisco to offer virtualised network switch
September 17
- VMware upgrades Mac virtualisation software
- Insolvency service loses four laptops
- Call centre IT drains productivity
- Birmingham’s NEC uses IP telephony to improve customer service
- EU mulls UK government Phorm response
- Fujitsu Siemens lines up six-core Primergy server
- Stockton backs up schools with hosted service
- Samsung turns hostile on SanDisk
- EU agency takes on DNS flaw
- VMware's Paul Maritz goes on offensive
- VMware sets sights on virtual desktops
September 16
- Intel makes virtual friends with new Xeon 7400
- VMware takes to the cloud
- Dell feels ill effects of weak economy
- Social networking is now more popular than porn
- Intel releases its first six-core processors
- Google gets ready for Android launch
- Developers must rethink apps for the Wi-Fi world
- HTC announces Touch HD, 3G and Viva handsets
- HP Linux OS rumour-mill goes into overdrive
September 15
- Citrix launches XenServer 5
- Juniper launches high performance firewall
- Ethnic minorities lead digital revolution
- Experian launches universal ID check
- UPDATED: AMD engineer charged with Intel espionage
- iPhone revealed to track everything you do
- Adobe buys YaWah for graphic asset workflow
- IT Job Board launches Facebook contest
- What’s the point of a disconnected netbook?
- Public trial of sex offender database begins
September 12
- CERN's LHC network hit by Greek hackers
- No need for public funds for next-gen internet
- Network delays cost businesses £500 million
- UK lags in broadband quality
- BT victim of £2 million network exchange theft
- BenQ stretches out with 16:9 displays
- Week in Review: When physics and IT collide
- RIM looks to consumers with new BlackBerry deals
- RSC gets 21st century comms
- Parents want text updates on students
September 11
- Happy 50th birthday to the silicon chip
- VMware’s top scientist quits
- Nvidia and Opera team on mobile devices
- NetSuite steps up professional services assault
- DNSChanger Trojan causes European malware epidemic
- Microsoft tearing down its own silos
- NEC teams up with IBM on chip development
- Data theft tops downtime in web security survey
- BT’s NHS IT contract hits £1 billion
- Scotland looks to protect public data
- Apple settles shareholder lawsuit
- Green IT ignorance adds risk
September 10
- Virtual dictation keeps law firm mobile
- MoD memory stick lost on night club floor
- Dell firms up virtualisation credentials
- Government contractor axed over lost prisoner details
- South Tyneside signs £184-million deal with BT
- Sony Ericsson reveals Xperia release date
- Nokia adds Microsoft Exchange email to 80 million devices
- Photos: Saving Bletchley Park
- RIM launches first flip Blackberry
- Photos: New Apple iPod Touch and iPods revealed
September 9
- Photos: Big day for CERN's LHC
- Live blogging from the Apple Special Event
- Ubuntu gets jaunty with newest release
- Intel desktop solid-state drives now shipping
- Google backs cheap internet for emerging markets
- HP claims laptop with 24-hour battery life
- Nokia looking for online acquisitions
September 8
- Microsoft sets Hyper-V free
- BlackBerry making gains in slowing smartphone market
- Green tech will move offshore without investment
- Travis Perkins optimises price deals
- Intel announces ‘eco-friendly’ Xeon chips
- Shopping centre unveils major IP investment
- Fibre rollout could cost as much as £28.8 billion
- IBM reboots storage strategy
- Objections hit Google/Yahoo ad deal
September 5
- Get ready for Global Security Week
- Heathrow’s T5 is giant Wi-Fi hotspot
- Vodafone to resell Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9
- Samung’s Omnia arrives to tune of mobile addiction
- Week in Review: Google Chrome hits the web
September 4
- Cut red tape to boost tech research, EU says
- BlackBerry Bold arrives on Vodafone
- Long rumoured Dell netbook launches as Inspiron Mini 9
- Orange unveils SIM-only business deals
- Teachers split over web use in classrooms
- Steria wins £75 million outsourcing extension from BT
- Security flaws hit Google’s Chrome
September 3
- Nokia’s N96 arrives early
- Number of IT vacancies continues to slide
- Palm gears up for Treo Pro launch
- Stephen Fry celebrates open source, attacks Microsoft and Apple
- Opera boss: “Google Chrome is good for the market”
- Buffalo announces its first portable SSD drive
- Mozilla welcomes arrival of Chrome
- Dell Netbook rumoured to appear this week
September 2
- Samsung agrees to Nokia’s Symbian takeover
- O2 trials mobile phones as digital wallets
- Chip sales up 7.6 per cent
- Social network tackles green business issues
- Intel buys OpenedHand
- Google launches Chrome web browser
- Alcatel-Lucent unveils new management team
September 1
- O2 unveils iPhone 3G PAYG details
- LG Display and Amtran team on LCDs
- LinkedIn unveils new knowledge-sharing tools
- MSI brings Linux to Wind, lowers price, ups storage
- HP launches new enterprise printing solutions
- Demand for .uk domains soars
- Microsoft to launch iPhone App Store rival
- Ofcom calling on consumers for mobile consultation
- Google and Yahoo deal going ahead
- WTO review of technology import duty blocked by EU