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August 31
- Win five copies of TuneUp Utilities 2009
August 30
- Novell re-examines role of distribution partners in UK
- Signify appoints Gerard Kerrigan to boost channel
August 28
- Novell reports healthy operating margins
- Apple OS X Snow Leopard review: first look
- T-Mobile tops mobile broadband survey
- Trojan taps and records Skype conversations
- Cisco warns of flaws that could disrupt voice calls
- Government hits back at file sharing criticism
- Google now translates documents in 42 languages
- Government cracks down on mobile payment criminals
August 27
- Met Office supercomputer tops polluting list
- Twitter XSS flaw could allow hackers to take over
- PDF vulnerabilities hit all time high
- Fake Snow Leopard sites leading to trojan infections
- Nokia confirms the N900 will run Maemo
- UK download speeds lag US and Asia
- Some UK cities to get faster Vodafone mobile broadband
- Linux revenue set to top $1 billion in 2012
- Government again refuses funding for Bletchley Park
- GPS helps Warwickshire dementia patients
August 26
- Spectra Logic adds deduplication to tape backup
- IBM releases enterprise level storage for mid-tier businesses
- Cisco’s wireless LANs could be open to a ‘SkyJack’
- ICT has key role in tackling climate change
- Fujitsu Services to slash 1,200 UK jobs
- Amazon launches its private cloud
- ISPs and campaigners slam file sharing law
- Twitter will roll out paid-for business accounts
- Pirate bay sails again under new ISP
- Mozilla finds Google Chrome flaw
- YouTube to pay users for viral videos
- Jordan most dangerous celeb on web, claims McAfee
- RIM shines light on browsing with Torch Mobile acquisition
August 25
- More than 60,000 websites hit by 'trojan cocktail'
- COLT signs up to Open Cloud Manifesto
- Asus finds operating profit after two quarters of losses
- NetApp updates its cloud offerings
- Do you use social networking at work?
- One in three UK online shoppers annoyed by logins
- Stratus launches new line of 'ftServers'
- Businesses should focus on the ‘accidental’ insider threat
- Dell launches data centre virtualisation products
- Jajah teams with Microsoft for enterprise IP comms
- Online sales continue to climb
- Government considers cutting off file sharers
August 24
- Identity theft gang connected to ATM breach
- Microsoft finally sorts out Windows 7 UK upgrade
- Snow Leopard set for release on Friday
- Mac malware becoming more prevalent
- Nokia unveils Booklet 3G netbook
- BT halts its graduate scheme
- Wolfram Alpha smartens up Bing's search
- Facebook plans to double its workforce
- Hackers prefer to use Firefox and Opera
- Duracell to launch wireless charging pad
August 23
- Reviews round-up: Products from Gradwell, Philips and Sun
August 22
- Week in Numbers: Malware up 600 per cent
August 21
- Is Apple's Snow Leopard set for an early release?
- Novell appoints Veitkus VP, partners & channels for EMEA
- What’s next for enterprise tech?
- Broadband growth booming, but many left without access
- Nokia chief hints at netbooks
- Salesforce posts record revenue
- Twitter to allow users to track tweets by location
- Criminals using real-time hacks to target businesses
- Europe invests in higher speed networks
- Week in Review: Microsoft's woes
- Cisco patches up to prevent denial of service attacks
- Oracle and Sun deal gets green light
- Cloud computing gets boost as energy costs skyrocket
August 20
- Government wants nationwide smart ticketing
- Virtualise storage through SANs, says IDC
- British surfers flock to mobile phone websites
- ID-stealing malware up 600 per cent
- High speed network for Hertfordshire schools
- Radisson hotel guests warned over US credit card hack
- NetApp appoints new CEO after strong results
- Official Wikipedia app heads to the iPhone
- Time Warner shows head to YouTube
- Google takes enterprise search to Salesforce
August 19
- British retailers can learn lessons from US identity hack
- Brits to get Windows 7 for £65
- Met Police look to Twitter to manage protests
- Researchers look to retail to predict security threats
- Facebook sued over privacy
- Today in history: Google's IPO
- TweetDeck boosted by $2 million VC funding
- Half a million Wi-Fi hotspots for BT
August 18
- Palm app store to arrive next month
- Confusing Wi-Fi laws could cause mobile broadband trouble
- Russian cyber criminals supported Georgia attacks
- RIM ranked the fastest growing company
- Camden encrypts all of its laptops
- Chrome 4 developer build gathers pace
- Security firms team up to battle malware
- Cross-scripting flaws patched in Adobe app software
- ‘Digital refugees’ show importance of online freedom, says Google
- Glasgow benefits from BT London broadband 'issues'
August 17
- BT pushes broadband booster button
- TomTom comes to the iPhone
- DIY broadband fibre for Humber lifeguards
- Sony Ericsson names new mobile leader
- Labour names new media spokesperson
- Teneo all smiles following acquisition
- Growth leads ISV call for new resellers
- Dell’s Android-based smartphone spotted on web
- Wikipedia surpasses three million milestone
- ICANN claims victory against ‘internet graffiti’
- Mandelson meeting sparks file sharing debate
- Teens staring at screens for 10 hours a day
- Philips Brilliance 225B monitor review - Pictures
August 15
- Week in Numbers: Stamping out spam?
August 14
- Confused.com recruits SAS for customer insight
- Yahoo looks to penny per email to stop spam
- Half of new malware dies after a day
- Twitter to make retweeting official
- Boffins encouraged to create new anti-terror gadgets
- Twitter used as command centre to control botnet
- Week in Review: How much is too much data?
- Ditching ID cards would save more than £3 billion
August 13
- Microsoft to bin Entourage for Outlook for Mac
- Chinese internet filter will not be forced on users
- Mozilla asks Firefox users to become 'Test Pilots'
- Intel fixes SSD flaw
- UPS forced to encrypt devices after data breach
- Opera 10 hits third beta
- Apple fixes Mac OS X and Safari browser flaws
August 12
- DNA database still 'illegal', says watchdog
- Microsoft software headed to Nokia's Symbian
- Off Duty: PSP Go
- BT gives UK holiday makers Wi-Fi hotspots
- Pirate Party looks to change copyright, surveillance
- US court tells Microsoft to stop selling Word
- Intel and Micron team up for smaller, denser flash
- BBC exec to head up uni’s CIO centre
- Facebook Lite looking to take on Twitter?
- Pirate Party sets sail in the UK
- Microsoft issues nine patches for Windows, Office Web
August 11
- Nokia’s Ovi Mail reaches one million milestone
- Asda to launch social networking site
- Unbundled broadband lines top six million
- European Commission told off over Intel case
- Need to Know: RIPA
- Microsoft to preview SQL server next week
- Google set to update search with 'Caffeine'
- UK businesses resist social networking
- Microsoft refuses to kill off IE6 over personal choice
- Office Web Apps ignore Opera and Chrome browsers
- Facebook buys FriendFeed, eyes Google and Twitter
August 10
- Nortel chief executive steps down
- Get ready for tighter IT regulation, says Gartner
- SaaS business drives record revenues for Proofpoint
- Dell to kill-off 12 inch netbooks
- Enterprises begin to embrace SSD
- Tories want local, third-party health records
- Student nabs first PhD in texting
- Microsoft sells Razorfish to swim away with $530 million
- Troops encouraged to tweet by MoD
- ISPs divulge comms data on half a million people
- Mozilla teases with Firefox 3.6 alpha
- Toshiba eyes Blu-ray Disc Association membership
- Is the Cloud fit for purpose as a storage repository for business data?
- Hybrid touchscreen in the offing for RIM?
August 8
- Week in Numbers: Twit bots
August 7
- Timms confirmed as Digital Britain minister
- Can you survive a lack of tweets?
- BT fibre pilot delayed by Muswell residents
- Home Office denies ID card hack claims
- Reviews Round-up: A new Hero’s in town
- Week in Review: Twitter targetted
- BT wins £40 million Norfolk contract
- Microprocessor shipment rise down to Intel?
- Need to Know: Denial of Service
- Virgin Media lifted by broadband success
- Nine patches for Microsoft's next Patch Tuesday
August 6
- Twitter still reeling from denial of service attack
- Google speeds up Chrome
- WatchGuard to acquire BorderWare Technologies
- A quarter of tweets posted by bots
- Ethernet switch market to crash 20 per cent
- F-Secure unveils updated security suite
- IT services head to cloud, even if customers don't
- Business PC sales fall by a fifth
- IT unemployment hits five-year high
- 3 to launch ‘Mifi’ wireless router by Christmas
- Apple updates Mac OS
- Texas Memory Systems unveils speedy SSD storage
- ElasticHosts launches UK cloud service
August 5
- Your Views: Microsoft's browser choice
- Third crash for O2 in two weeks
- BT gives broadband boosting I-Plate away for free
- Will there be a Dell/Intel tablet?
- Tech startups look to kill off IE6
- Broadband in the sewers coming to Ireland
- Smartphones to beat mobile handset decline
- Telecoms confidence rises
- ICO: Government shouldn’t collect all comms data
- Orange launches cut-price mobile broadband offer
- Rightmove unveils iPhone app
August 4
- St Helens Council rolls out £2 million network
- Windows XP mode hits RC ahead of 7 release
- Welsh get own-language mobile phone
- One in three Europeans have never used internet
- Intel stops shipping 34nm SSD after BIOS flaw
- Wick Hill appoints Gibbs to head new convergence business
- TalkTalk puts its 40Mbps broadband to the test
- Bartz: Yahoo was too far behind in search
- T-Mobile quietly offering iPhone to its top customers
- Firefox patches Black Hat SSL encryption vulnerability
- Union: Fujitsu taking advantage of recession
- Twitter using Google blacklist to filter malicious links
- North/South divide still evident in IT salaries
August 3
- Bing gains one per cent, but still trails Google
- Fibre-optic networks vulnerable to hacking
- iPhone set to steal BlackBerry's business crown
- Damovo UK becomes first Aastra Elite Enterprise Partner
- Brits’ love of tech not hampered by recession
- Google head quits Apple board
- Black Hat: It wasn’t just the iPhone that got hacked…
- University of Southampton unveils £3 million supercomputer
- iPod explodes, owner gagged
- Multiple Adobe security holes closed
- Nokia N97 Mini pics surface
- Microsoft unveils more browser ballot details
- Microsoft ditches European version of Windows 7
- Gary McKinnon may serve hacking time in UK