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October 30
- Shure SE530 earphones review
- Asus to launch ARM smartbook in 2010
- Reviews round-up: Sony's ultra portable
- Microsoft discontinues Office Accounting
- Week in Review: Halloween tech scares
- Samsung profits suggest tech industry recovery
- UK gets final EU warning over Phorm
- ICANN takes domain names global
October 29
- Europe ready to invest after recession, claims Juniper
- Juniper takes wraps off new networking products
- Watch out for the Zeus botnet this Halloween
- ‘Severe’ flaws in Firefox and Opera patched
- HTC Hero to get Android 2.0 upgrade
- Resellers on song with Nimans and Plantronics
- Mid-sized firms warned they are a security target
- Virgin's results 'best ever' as customers spend more
- ARM promises dual-core phones by next year
October 28
- Businesses must deal with ‘information overload’
- IBM helps Kent residents create their own mashups
- Intel and Numonyx announce memory breakthrough
- Symbian unveils Horizon app store
- Mandelson unveils file sharing disconnection plan
- Google PowerMeter heads to the UK
- HP workers to vote on industrial action
- The business argument always wins, claims ESG analyst
- Google releases Android 2.0 SDK
- Gizmodo hit by malware
October 27
- IBM: Data can diagnose and predict diseases
- IBM will keep spending big on business intelligence
- IBM wants IT to make the world a better place
- EMC paid too much for Data Domain, claims NetApp
- Microsoft to open up Outlook data
- Dell unveils Latitude XT2 XFR rugged laptop
- Next Ubuntu for desktop and server out this week
- Nokia Booklet 3G successor in the works
- Facebook to 'memorialise' profiles of the dead
- BakBone unveils new archiving product
- Business case is the biggest barrier to cloud adoption
- Amazon iPhone app lands in the UK
- Medical evidence 'stops clock ticking' on McKinnon's extradition
- IBM to open financial analytics centre in London
- Linguistic software helps law enforcement
- IBM wants companies to predict the future
October 26
- Dell unveils skinny Inspiron 13z and 15z laptops
- GeoCities closes its doors today
- ICANN: Domains to go multilingual by year end
- HTC unveils first global ad campaign
- Orange iPhone coming 10 November
- Social networking costing UK businesses nearly £4m a day
- 100-core processors coming in 2010
- Symbian microkernel goes open source
- Liverpool takes lead on contactless payments
- Powermat eyes embedded charger domination
- White House goes open source
- Guardian job site hack hits half a million users
- Scientists edge closer to smarter robots
- Icahn steps down from Yahoo board
- Orange to sell iPhone from 10 November?
October 23
- The Pirate Bay in the courts again
- Enterprises slow in reacting to changing criminal threat
- Reviews round-up: Windows 7
- Amazon profits jump 62 per cent
- Criminals sitting on stolen data ‘timebomb’
- DRAM revenue reaches best level for five years
- Britain needs data breach notification laws
- Toshiba unveils new Satellite Pro laptops
- Gartner: Citizen developers to build more business apps
- Filesharers will not be cut off 'willy nilly'
- Rogue trader warns financial systems need controls
- Brits urged to recycle rather than bin mobiles
- Windows 7 to hit Macs by end of year
- Week in Review: Windows 7 launches
October 22
- Zurich loses 51,000 UK customer details
- IBM launches enterprise-level storage array
- VMware profits plummet 54 per cent
- ITU backs micro USB as standard charger
- Windows 7: Ease of use
- Oracle and Sun deal faces more problems
- Dell tech suits prize winners well
- Privileged accounts risk security, ISO compliance
- RSA 2009: Fake chip and PIN readers hit UK
- Virtualisation to hit 50 per cent by 2012
- Eastern Europe leading Windows 7 adoption
- Bing and Google sign Twitter search deals
October 21
- Windows 7 preorders already top Vista sales
- Windows 7 launches in the UK
- Apple MacBook refresh review: first look
- Orange offers 20Mbps broadband
- Private cloud is safer claims Digital Realty Trust
- RSA 2009: SOCA attacks heart of organised cyber crime
- Cloud computing tops Gartner tech ranking
- Microsoft criticises Google Chrome's privacy
- Need to Know: Windows 7
- Samsung invests in Fusion-io
- Yahoo's profit leaps 244 per cent after job cuts
- RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 unveiled
- Sun slashes 3,000 jobs
- New mid-range dedupe for Data Domain
- Mobile users oblivious to their surroundings
- ARM Cortex A5 chip takes mobile web mainstream
- IT spending to recover by 3.3 per cent in 2010
- MacBook leads trio of new Apple arrivals
- Intel and SAP unite to move enterprises to web
October 20
- Head to head: iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre
- Photos: MoD unveils latest high-tech gadgets
- Cisco launches next-generation routers
- How sharing a little data can mean big trouble
- Google et al voice support for net neutrality
- 10,000 register for ID cards
- Boffins discover new type of multiferroic material
- IBM exec on leave following arrest
- Dual-screen Android e-book reader unveiled
- Windows 7 arrives early because of postal strike
- Google offers free Wi-Fi on Virgin America flights
- Ofcom will borrow spectrum for the London 2012 Olympics
- Alan Johnson to be questioned by MPs over McKinnon
- Record iPhone, Mac sales boost Apple's profit
- UK ready and willing for biometric fingerprinting
October 19
- Microsoft Office 2010 beta to arrive in November
- Tories would cut broadband tax
- Wolfram Alpha arrives on the iPhone
- HTC Hero and Spotify arriving on 3 next month
- Facebook founder recognised for industry contribution
- Airport won't X-ray children
- Mozilla unblocks Microsoft Firefox plug-in
- Miniscule crystals could be used to store data
- Google's ad push highlights growing business use
- Cyber criminals make big bucks with scareware
October 18
- Gary McKinnon's extradition put on hold
- Power firm Tripp Lite throws hat into ring
October 17
- Samsung raises $2m for European breast cancer charities
October 16
- Week in Review: Palm Pre arrives
- Police armed with more smartphones
- Postal strike could cost online retailers millions
- Euro security agency ENISA appoints new chief
- Palm Pre finally goes on sale in UK stores
- Businesses block social networks over legal fears
- Courts approve Ciena/Nortel deal
- Ubuntu to launch cloud appliance store
- Social networking use jumps in the UK
- Sidekick customers file lawsuits
- Google's revenue grows as it looks to spend
- Reviews round-up: Google makes waves
October 15
- Virgin Money cashes in on open source for charity
- SGI announces new NAS device
- BlackBerry Storm 2 review: first look
- Backup vendors will drive the move from tape to digital
- Microsoft webmail targeted by spear phishing attacks
- Nokia sales plummet by 20 per cent
- Full virtualisation and cloud storage will 'never' happen
- Computers being held to ransom by fake antivirus
- Google: Browser to take over the OS
- Microsoft recovers Sidekick data
- Storage Expo: All the news
- London cyber criminals face jail for Natwest fraud
- PC sales start to grow – but not in Europe
- Joost shuts down in the UK
- RIM unveils BlackBerry Storm 2
October 14
- SSD not dominating storage market yet
- McAfee Mac software highlights new risks
- Botnet creators return with Bredolab trojan
- Hitachi eyes infrastructure for the cloud
- Acer reveals Android-powered netbook
- SAP and HP link up over business intelligence
- SteelSeries targets UK gamers
- Did Amazon give birth to cloud computing?
- Adobe adds to patching burden with 29 flaw fixes
- Intel posts 'strong' profit
- Government pumps £80 million into UK innovation
- Should the iPhone be worried by Palm Pre demand?
October 13
- Cisco acquires Starent Networks
- Salford security tech allows better public sector comms
- Vodafone and Decho offer cloud backup
- UPDATED: BT backup lets customers down
- Cyber criminals surfing the Google Wave
- Oracle updates BI, middleware at OpenWorld
- Google Squared gets updated
- A10 launches 64-bit OS for application delivery
- Satio heads up Vodafone smartphone trio
- Snow Leopard bug is eating user data
- Sun focuses on flash based storage
- Manchester Airport gets X-ray scanners
- Getting UK online could boost economy by £22 billion
- Staying connected cuts stress for tech addicts
- Rentokil rolls out Google email to 35,000 users
October 12
- Latest spam emails are 'almost foolproof'
- Google Wave review: first look
- UPDATED: Microsoft Danger glitch wipes T-Mobile Sidekick data
- Android patched to fix denial of service bugs
- Cisco launches new virtual interface card
- IT must help cut emissions, says EU
- Orange/T-Mobile merger messes with government spectrum plans
- Businesses aren't trusted to handle customer data
- EC urges UK and Europe to do more about spam
- Coalition calls for decent rural broadband
- Acer recalls overheating Aspire laptops
October 9
- European mobile broadband subscribers on the grow
- Businesses can't ignore ‘spear phishing’ attacks
- DNS Arrow claims UK first for VMware renewals
- Could Hotmail password theft be due to a trojan?
- Exchange Server 2010 released to manufacturing
- Reviews roundup: Sony’s X-rated laptop waif
- Microsoft unveils free Office 2010 version
- Monster set of patches from Microsoft
- BT extends 100Mbps fibre rollout
- McKinnon loses latest battle against extradition to US
- Week in review: E-books and DNA readers
October 8
- Sony Vaio X-Series review: first look
- Server virtualisation goals are ‘lofty’, says executive
- IBM facing anti-competition inquiry
- Cloud computing to go mainstream in 10 years?
- Is the Sony Vaio X the ‘world’s lightest’ laptop?
- Iomega launches new NAS server for SMBs
- Red Hat and Microsoft get virtually compatible
- The FBI cracks the ‘largest phishing case ever’
- TalkTalk adds subscribers, but Tiscali loses out
- First Firefox 3.6 beta to arrive next week
- Fujitsu workers to vote on strike
- Microsoft Office Web Apps review: first look
October 7
- '12345' the most popular phished Hotmail password
- Scotland calls for rural broadband funding
- EU approves Microsoft's browser ballot plan
- Retailers can save £1 billion by ‘synching their data’
- Google: Many don't know what a browser is
- Avatars to have business dress codes by 2013
- IBM unveils private cloud storage
- Amazon's Kindle heads to the UK on 19 October
- Bigger businesses lag behind with cloud adoption
October 6
- Microsoft and Google not to blame for phishing attacks
- NHS IT glitches lead to patient treatment backlog
- Why the London Stock Exchange went for Linux
- Ciena serious about Nortel’s assets
- Brocade set to sell?
- Defining the cloud is the biggest challenge to using it
- Oxford Brookes claims it’s clean from Conficker
- Windows Phone 6.5 review: first look
- UK researcher wins Nobel Prize for fibre optics
- IBM wants to read DNA ‘like a barcode’
- Apple and Sony Ericsson receive green accolades
- Microsoft confirms Hotmail phishing attack
- Mobile coverage issues blight majority of users
- Adobe brings Flash apps to the iPhone
- McAfee offers ‘unlimited’ online backup service
- Windows Phone 6.5 officially arrives today
- Head to head: Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard
October 5
- Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
- Open source 'ready to go' for business applications
- Symantec wants you (if your Facebook profile is clean)
- IT budgets won't recover, says IDC
- Academy invests in multi-million pound tech upgrade
- Ballmer claims Windows 7 saves £100 a seat
- RIM patches potential BlackBerry phishing flaw
- BlackBerry devices speed up paperwork for nurses
- Ballmer: Don't expect simpler licensing soon
- Virgin Media tops broadband speed poll
- Conficker worm hits Oxford Brookes University
- Xbox Natal tech will head to businesses next year
- Adobe brings Flash to mobile devices
- Majority of users not securing their smartphones
- O2 to unlock the iPhone?
- Adobe unveils LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2
October 2
- GFI Software to host following Katharion acquisition
- Google: Current spam levels makes ‘Storm’ look small
- Siemens goes forward with Sphinx
- Bing loses market share
- Kelway goes 'beyond technology'
- Reviews round-up: Samsung lights up Galaxy
- Week in Review: iPhone comes to Orange and Vodafone
- Brits spend 30 hours a week online
- Toshiba takes over Fujitsu's HDD business
October 1
- US government stresses importance of cyber hygiene
- Digital Britain: Prepare for Workplace 2.0
- Cisco acquires Tandberg for $3 billion
- O-bit Telecom launches ’Purple Networx’
- Private cloud investment will outdo public, says Gartner
- O2 to trial LTE in the UK
- Need to Know: Google Wave
- UK comes 25th in global broadband study