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October 31
- UK government putting free Wi-Fi in 1,000 buildings
- Microsoft underlines commitment to Internet of Things
- Google loses Android co-founder Andy Rubin
- Smartphone sales increase by a quarter in Q3 2014
October 30
- Google completes deal to sell Motorola to Lenovo for £1.82bn
- EE launches 4G+ service in London
- Cheap iPhone will never be made, says Apple
- Microsoft joins fitness app offerings with Health
- Google develops cancer-detecting wristband
- Microsoft Office 16 release date revealed as H2 2015
- Royal Mail teams up with BT to boost IT investment
October 29
- Hackers access White House computers
- Howard Freeman appointed Espion's VAD manager
- Google Fit app launches as rival to Apple’s HealthKit
- Google partners with PwC to push cloud apps to businesses
- Hammer announces success as Dell distie
- Apple Pay vs CurrentC: What's the problem in the US?
October 28
- Careless employees with mobiles biggest security threat
- Users warned on Tor security
- UK lagging behind world in wearable tech use
- Elon Musk describes AI as 'summoning the devil'
October 27
- AVG: Moving beyond antivirus
- Maintel acquires Proximity Communications to build portfolio
- Energy-saving windowless plane being developed
- CounterPath and ProVu Communications pen distie partnership
- Alert Logic opens doors of European Security Operations Centre in Wales
- IBM offers data analytics to help track Ebola outbreak
- UK losing out on over £9bn a year from not using smart technology
- Biometric recognition installed at the Jobcentre
- Government extends PIPCU work until 2017
- Cirque du Soleil looks to cloud to transform HR
- Nutanix carves out niche among top channel players
October 24
- Amazon Fire Phone fails to set market alight
- Microsoft forced to issue quick fix for PowerPoint flaw
- Microsoft beats revenue expectations despite Nokia restructuring
- Google snaps up two companies in artificial intelligence push
- Fake WHO email about Ebola spreads malware
- Department for Transport to trial driverless cars
October 23
- Windows 10 Technical Preview bags first update
- Google Inbox app aims to help users make sense of email
- Microsoft ditches Nokia branding on Lumia devices
- Apple iCloud at risk of organised network attacks
October 22
- EMC confirms VCE acquisition
- Wearables tipped to reinvent retail sector
- Teradata CTO recognises data science skills gap
- Tennis coaches to use on-court data insights from SAP
- Ford car seat technology detects if drivers have heart attacks
- UK Government research shows 1/2 of Britons are cybercrime victims
- BT Openreach to recruit 500 staff to boost broadband rollout
- EE claims to have the biggest 4G customer base in Europe
- Lenovo to acquire BlackBerry, sources claim
October 21
- AVG: MSPs must adapt services for Internet of Things
- Zycko appoints group sales director
- iOS 8.1 available to download now: What's new?
- EMC: Half of UK firms lack big data analytics experience
- Red Hat adds management features to open source oVirt 3.5 offering
- Teradata: Efficient big data adoption is major enterprise concern
- The UK Cloud Awards 2015: Nominations now open
- Bogus iCloud log-in page fools Chinese Apple users
- House buyers hit by Bank of England deposit payment system crash
October 20
- GFI: Company overhaul benefits MSPs
- Teradata pushes integrated data analytics with Connection Analytics & QueryGrid
- Lenovo gives Avnet green light on System x
- Teradata revamps Integrated Marketing Cloud for greater data insights
- BBC to publish links to articles removed by "Right To Be Forgotten" rule
- Welsh Government backs creation of 620 IT jobs at CGI with £3.2m grant
- Microsoft smartwatch to pack two-day battery life
- Huawei & Accenture focus on enterprise with private cloud service
- IBM to pay $1.5 billion to offload chip-making business
- High Court instructs ISPs to block counterfeit sites
- Internet trolls could face 2-year prison sentences
October 17
- Home Office backs Child Abuse Image Database creation
- Neil Young talks up Pono in a bid to "bring the feeling back in music" through technology
- Extreme Networks: We're a contender to Cisco
- UK tech industry calls for criminal justice data sharing reforms
- Sky Broadband problems: Liverpool & Manchester hit by internet outage
- Superfast Dorset to bring fibre broadband to 9,000 more homes & businesses
- iPad Air 2 teardown reveals it's almost unrepairable
- SQL injection flaw fixed by Drupal
- Puls smartwatch unveiled by Will.i.am
October 16
- iPad Air 2, OS X Yosemite & Retina iMac: Launch live blog
- OS X Yosemite release date confirmed as 16 October
- Worldwide tablet sales growth set for 2014 slowdown
- Vodafone to boost 4G speeds in London, Birmingham & Manchester
- Samsung breaks 5G data transmission speed record
October 15
- Jabra takes on Plantronics in fight for market share
- EasyJet passport scanning app to cut down check-in times
- Vodafone extends 4G roaming to 23 countries
- Facebook & Apple to pay for female employees to freeze eggs
- Worst train routes for making calls & sending texts revealed
- BT 80Mbps microwave radio link installed in Devon village
October 14
- Android L: Could Google's next mobile OS be called Licorice?
- Dropbox claims password 'leaks' not due to hack
- Google declares Amazon its biggest search rival
- Juniper Networks: “Hell-bent on channel strategy”
- Android Trojan poses as game of noughts and crosses
- NHS England names care.data pilot programme areas
- UK responsible for 1/3 Right To Be Forgotten requests
October 13
- Cornerstone updates mobile app to help HR professional remember staff
- 100 people responsible for world cybercrime, says Europol
- Samsung reveals five-times faster Wi-Fi
- Snapchat hackers post 100,000 explicit images online
- Chrome browser - Top 10 tips & tricks
- SGP Technologies & Silent Circle to launch Blackphone tablet
- Microsoft develops Nokia Lumia 1020-powered Ultrascope
- Jony Ive takes on the iPhone copycats
October 10
- Microsoft moves to allay Surface support fears
- Symantec confirms split into separate security & storage entities
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologises for gender pay gap comments
- Smartphones & tablets remotely wiped in UK police custody
- Selfmite Android malware returns, bigger & badder
- GT Advanced Technologies asks court to seal bankruptcy documents
October 9
- Google asks Supreme Court to reopen Java copyright case against Oracle
- iPad Pro production "delayed" because of high iPhone 6 demand
- IBM to open Watson "experience centres" in London & Dublin
- EU to probe Amazon’s tax affairs in Luxembourg
- Schneier: People more important to security than processes
- BT & Huawei broadband trials hit speeds of 3Tbps
- Mobile devices now outnumber people on Earth
October 8
- Salesforce unveils updated Service Cloud1 & Sales Cloud1
- Ofcom fines Three £250k over complaint handling shortfalls
- Tim Berners-Lee sets out vision for the web in 2050
- Symantec said to be mulling storage & security business split
- Tyupkin malware-infected ATMs give cash away to criminals
- Workday helps TalkTalk move its HR systems to the cloud
- Smart meter hack could leave homes in the dark
- Samsung sees profits fall 60 per cent
- Transport select committee warns drivers of fake websites
October 7
- UK government to give lawyers & accountants free cyber security training
- Good Technology to simplify BYOD security with cloud-based EMM suite
- Hyperoptic brings gigabit fibre to four more English cities
- London tech startups snare $1bn funding in 2014
- Apple sapphire glass manufacturer files for bankruptcy
- iPhone 6 prototype hits $100,000 on eBay
October 6
- Cisco support gains Momentum at Azlan
- HP to make PC & printing biz a standalone company
- BT consumer network launch reportedly hit by tech delays
- Microsoft to drop ID requirement in Office 365 email encryption
- First IoT-mediated murder could occur in 2014, experts warn
- EU approves Facebook-WhatsApp acquisition
- Samsung owes Microsoft $6.9m in interest
- 17,000 Macs hit by hackers via Reddit
- iPad - Top 15 productivity tips & tricks
- Microsoft reveals the reason why there was no Windows 9
October 3
- Facebook in health-monitoring market entry rumours
- Evernote launches Evernote Context for enhanced note-taking
- Average UK broadband speeds on the up, claim Ofcom
- ARM unveils mbed OS for Internet of Things
- Google Drive to give unlimited cloud storage to students
- Xen lifts lid on virtual machine security bug
- Met Police launches anti-fraud and cybercrime unit
- O2, EE & Vodafone to trial carrier billing on the high street
- Google threatened with legal action over naked celeb photos
October 2
- Parallels' John Zanni takes cloud role at Acronis
- Surface Pro 3 price cut for UK education buyers
- Windows 10 Technical Preview: Is Microsoft back in business?
- Danwood names James Dalziel new sales chief
- PayPal excluded from Apple Pay due to Samsung deal
- Google price cuts see cloud costs fall by 10 per cent
- BT to protect customers from hackers with Assure Threat Defence
- Four hackers accused of stealing military software
October 1
- Big Data: Why IT pros need to talk less tech to get it on the boardroom agenda
- Windows 10: 10 Features we want to see
- AMD demos Hadoop running on ARM-based server
- HP packs 64-bit ARM chips into Moonshot servers
- Shellshock: Apple rolls out OS X patches for Bash bug
- EE 4G switched on in 18 more UK towns
- PayPal will become separate company to eBay