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August 31
- Dreamforce 2011: Roundup
- Dreamforce 2011: Chatter and HTML5 releases aim at social enterprise
- Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com announces Data.com
- Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com ‘reborn’ as social provider
- Could graphene provide much-needed net boost?
- Dell partners with VMware for first public cloud platform
- WikiLeaks hit by cyber attack
- Nokia veteran heads to venture fund firm
August 30
- Facebook bug bounty hunters handed $40,000
- Certificate authority confirms hack after Gmail attack
- Tesco strikes $45 million deal with CA
- Acer opens cloud computing centre
August 29
- Why IT should fear Schmidt’s education warning
- Hackers breach Nokia developer community
August 26
- Week in review: Jobs says adios, HP flim-flam, Facebook isn't evil
- The file that helped hack RSA found
- British student charged for January cyber attacks
- RIM planning BlackBerry Android tie up?
- VMware vSphere 5 goes global
August 25
- Rights groups warn Government over social network ban
- Apple vs. Samsung: Android 3 does not violate patents
- Samsung: We don't want HP PC business
- From zero to hero: The second reign of Steve Jobs
- Five ways Cook can keep Apple king
- Today in history: Linux turns 20
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs resigns
- Goodbye HP PCs, long live webOS!
August 24
- Citrix releases XenDesktop 5.5
- Samsung launches new Galaxy phones
- ASA: Motorola Atrix not world’s most powerful smartphone
- Facebook finally gets photo privacy message
- Today in history: Red phone box turns 75
- BBC 3G map shows ‘many notspots’
- Amazon unveils ElastiCache
August 23
- A trip to RankMyHack.com
- The first steps in the Microsoft Virtual Academy - taking the plunge on virtualisation
- Android becoming Windows of mobile hacking world?
- Cisco splashes $31 million on Axioss software
- Dell storage cosies up with VMware
- RIM uncloaks BlackBerry Curve 9360
August 22
- Vodafone confirms operator billing for Android apps
- Anonymous hits US military drone manufacturer
- Skype buys GroupMe in group messaging play
- BT bringing free Wi-Fi to London pubs
- Salesforce revenue leaps by 38 per cent
August 19
- Week in Review: Google and HP in acquisition shockers
- Apple wants to stop Samsung Galaxy via Dutch court
- HP’s Autonomy buy: How to do an IBM
- HP dumps PCs and webOS, but why?
- Which? says Nationwide is safest online bank
- Facebook issues Guide to Security
- Quantum unveils backup iPhone app
August 18
- York youngster ‘penetrated’ Facebook security
- Hackers release San Francisco Bart cop data
- IBM has chips for brains
- TalkTalk fined £3 million for billing blunders
- Apple faces wrath of 27,000 South Koreans
- Google: Hello Moto
August 17
- No iPad 3 in 2011?
- HTC sues Apple as patent wars continue
- Fresh superfast connected Enterprise Zones announced
- Malicous spam hits ‘epic’ levels
- Firefox 6 gets official desktop and mobile release
- Are you ready for the Cloud Pro Challenge?
- Nimbula tackles distributed clouds
August 16
- Are we feeling social media malaise?
- Head to Head: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion vs Windows 7
- Google urged to up privacy again after Street View 'debacle'
- HP Pre 3 coming to UK via Orange
- England countryside to get £294 million for broadband
- IDC forecasts cloud-based security boost for mobile devices
August 15
- RIM unveils cloud-based BlackBerry management tool
- Google to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion
- Windows Phone 7 final Mango build leaked
- UK firms find virtualisation storage a step too far
August 12
- Analysis: Should cloud users fear no more the lightning-flash?
- Week in review: Galaxy Tab ban, Amazon and IBM humbled
- Has the PC had its day?
- Apple/Samsung patent hearing set for 25 August
- Gartner says cloud hype reaching highest level yet
August 11
- Azlan boosts support for Cisco TelePresence
- Will Motorola Xoom be Apple's next patent target?
- Oracle hiring 1,700 new employees
- The PC era is over. The tablet has won.
August 10
- Research highlights GPRS vulnerability
- More Brits browse with Bing
- BT lets Ribbit developers croak
- Lush escapes fine after data breach
- Foreign Office launches text service
- Desktop Anywhere launches in UK
August 9
- Hampshire school breaches data protection rules
- Windows 7 on almost half of PCs by end of 2011
- IBM cancels Blue Waters supercomputer
- Microsoft warns on IE9 and Windows Server flaws
- Microsoft team demonstrate new step towards cloud security
- European success more likely for iPad rivals
- Researchers question Android push notifications design
August 8
- Firms start to tweak privacy polices in wake of new tech
- Anonymous and LulzSec dump US police data
- Google spearheads Bletchley Park fundraising
- Amazon and Microsoft cloud services hit by lightning strike
- Amazon cloud knocked offline by lightning
- Dell and Cloudera offer ‘complete’ Hadoop solution
August 5
- Week in review: Google gets antsy, IE IQ MIA, capital Wi-Fi
- Home Office backs forensic fingerprint technology
- Rackspace launches Critical Sites in UK
- Intel invests $30 million into cloud future
August 4
- Google slams Apple and Microsoft for patent ‘campaign’
- Hundreds of bank account details left at London pub
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets update on release
- SMS blunder gives Scottish students early results
- Is the UK really ‘addicted’ to smartphones?
- Government, outsourcing and the £3,500 PC
- CIOs lacking faith in cloud computing
August 3
- NetSuite posts record Q2 revenues
- Cost of cyber crime rises 56 per cent
- McAfee uncovers monolithic targeted attack campaign
- Apple iWork web apps in offing?
- Government ditches site blocking, plans IP review
- BlackBerry 7 OS, new Torch and Bold phones launched
- Internet Explorer IQ bashing was a hoax
- Get free advice from PC Pro’s Business Clinic
- Researchers develop "defibrillator" for stalled software
August 2
- Microsoft and Tesco in eight-year collaboration tie up
- Bytes buys security specialist
- Will Virgin rollout free Wi-Fi for London?
- Kelway joins Citrix elite
- Kaspersky: Cyber criminals hide in Amazon S3
- The Sun warns readers of data theft
- Foxconn wants 300,000 robots
- Hacking scandal: Over 200,000 emails deleted
- CA acquires SaaS specialist Watchmouse
August 1
- UPDATED: Ex-Government CIO becomes Huawei security chief
- Adobe previews Flash alternative Edge
- Facebook offers bug hunter bounties
- UPDATED: Teen charged as LulzSec inquiries continue
- Medical researchers save £600,000 with cloud computing
- MTI details GSS acquisition