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Data is 'the critical asset' of financial services firms, says IAIDQ
Well managed information is crucial in allowing financial services companies to make accurately informed decisions, according to Daragh O Brien, member of the International Association for Information...
Recycled phone market booming, says Moneysupermarket.com
The recycled phone market is on the rise, boosted by growing demand in emerging parts of the world, it has been claimed.Mike Wilson, manager of mobiles and broadband at moneysupermarket.com, said that...
BT announces broadband upgrade
BT has unveiled plans to upgrade just over 300 exchanges between autumn 2010 and summer 2011 in a bid to extend super fast broadband to an additional four million houses, a news report has said.Computer...
Fall of computer science graduates is 'staggering', says Frontier Developments
Britain faces the risk of falling behind in higher education if it doesn't do more to improve the standard of computing in the sector, according to the founder of Frontier Developments.Speaking at the...
Millions still interact with e-mail spam, says MAAWG
Even though more than 80 per cent of e-mail users are aware of how bots spread, tens of millions keep on interacting with spam in ways that could provoke a malware infection, according to the Messaging...
Ofcom tells ISPs to better inform customers about broadband speeds
Ofcom has warned internet companies to provide better information to customers about potential broadband speeds or face stricter regulation.The telecoms watchdog, which used mystery shoppers to check how...
Diabetes sufferers helped by online communities
Online communities provide support and camaraderie to those who suffer from diabetes, it has been claimed.Amanda Neylon, digital media manager, of Diabetes UK, said that many people are using the group's...
MP calls for debate over alternatives to Digital Economy Bill
MP Tom Watson has called for a proper debate over the plans to cut off online users who breach web copyright before the Digital Economy Bill becomes law. Speaking at the Stop Disconnection Demo, a protest...
Marketers consider online video advertising key part of their campaigns
Online video advertising is becoming an integral part of marketing campaigns, a new study by Smartclip has found.According to Utalkmarketing.com, 71 out of the 100 marketers interviewed are planning on...
Web users focus on parts above fold, finds survey
Web users allocate 80 per cent of their time looking at information on the parts of an internet page which appear above the fold - the part which loads into the viewable browser and requires no scrolling,...
Fab Labs can help 'create new markets'
Fab Labs are technical products which have the potential to "create new markets", according to the founder of the product.Speaking after the launch of the UK's first Fab Lab in Manchester, Professor...
Fashion retailers told to offer more menswear products online
Fashion retailers can increase their online sales by offering more menswear products over the internet, according to a market expert.Hannah Kimuyu, director of paid search at Greenlight, said that even...
Online political campaigns 'will be attacked'
Organisations using social media for campaigning purposes must come to terms with the fact that their online activities will be attacked by their opponents, according to the director of PR consultancy...
Russian ISPs to require ID from those registering websites
Russians wishing to register a new website will be asked for identification from this April, the International Data Group has confirmed.The move by the country's internet service providers forms an attempt...
Online shoppers 'more savvy' over product searches
Online shoppers are becoming more sophisticated in the way they search the web for products, according to a market expert.Hannah Kimuyu, director of paid search at Greenlight, said that consumers have...
High speed broadband to 'open up possibilities' for UK companies
High speed broadband will allow businesses in Britain to access a series of new online services and applications that "the average UK business simply doesn't have the bandwidth for yet", according...
Social networks 'more popular than telephone'
Social media have become a necessary utility of daily life, according to the chief executive of Online Social Media Daniel Chubb."Users right now use Facebook and Twitter more times a day than they...
Cloud computing to make information security 'a major issue' in 2010
Data protection will become "a major issue" this year due to a "push towards cloud computing," according to international managed security services company Network Box.Simon Heron,...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 'must remain competitive'
Microsoft needs to improve Internet Explorer in order to maintain its market dominance, according editor-in-chief at professional IT publication Computer Weekly. Bryan Glick, editor-in-chief at Computer...
Batman wins best game at Baftas
Batman: Arkham Asylum has won the top prize at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) 2010 Video Game awards, a news report has said.The British-developed game, which sees the superhero...
Physical formats to continue playing a role in music market
Despite digital formats dominating the music market, there is "still scope" for CDs and DVDs, according to Andrew Shaw, managing director of broadcast and online at copyright and royalty collection...
Mobile devices 'perfect' for social media, says expert
Mobile is increasingly becoming critical to social media because people are adjusting the way they interact with mobile devices, according to Tim Gibbon, co-founder and editor of the Social Media Portal."Mobile...
Google ad partners ask for clarity over its plans
A 27-strong group of Google's Chinese advertising partners has demanded clarity from the internet company about its plans in the region.The group said it has been waiting in "incomparable pain and...
Microsoft found 'guilty' of patent infringement
Microsoft has been ordered to pay $106 million after being found guilty of wilful infringement of two patents relating to communications security belonging to software maker VirnetX.According to US reports,...
Mobile apps market to rocket by 2012, survey finds
The mobile application market will rocket over the next two years, a new study has claimed.Getjar, the world's second biggest app store, said the market will hit $17.5 billion (£12 billion) by 2012.According...
Internet Explorer 9 preview released
Microsoft has unveiled a technology preview of its latest web browser, Internet Explorer 9, which aims to speed up access to internet pages.The web giant said the new browser enables web developers to...
Twitter unveils new service
Twitter's plans to further embed itself in the web have taken new shape following the announcement of a new technology that that will allow people using websites to follow new users or share media directly...
FFC plans to give Americans super-fast broadband by 2020
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is aiming to provide high-speed broadband to every American by 2020. According to FCC estimations, a third of US citizens, about 100 million people, do not...
Free IT support provided to small companies by green charity
An environmental charity is offering free IT support for companies with fewer than 250 staff. Global Action Plan says it wants small and medium-sized businesses to access the same financial and environmental...
Technology to lead UK to 'future growth,' says Intellect
The technology sector could become the main driver of the UK economy over the next few years, according to Intellect, the trade association for IT companies."Britain has the environment to build tomorrow's...
Website requests to reach four quadrillion by 2020, expert predicts
Website requests are expected to grow phenomenally over the next ten years, according to Mark McLaughlin, chief executive officer of Verisign, the group that is responsible for looking after the dotcom...
HSBC hit by huge Swiss bank data theft
HSBC has admitted that about 24,000 clients of its private banking operations in Switzerland had their personal data stolen in 2006 and 2007.Former employee Herve Falciani stole the personal details using...
Blended threats main web risk to enterprises, says Websense
Blended threats top the list of online security risks for enterprises, according to a market expert. "Cybercriminals are increasingly using a whole range of attack methods blended together to steal...
Google warned to comply with Chinese censorship laws
Google will "pay the consequences" if it does not comply with China's censorship laws, the country's top internet official has warned.Speaking at China's annual legislation session, minister...
Playstation Move unveiled by Sony
Sony has used the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to present Playstation Move, its new motion controller which aims to challenge market leader Nintendo Wii.But initial reactions from those...
Oracle to integrate hardware with Sun software
Following its £7.1 billion takeover of Sun, Oracle is planning to start selling integrated hardware and software designed to reduce IT operating costs and boost performance."By combining Sun...
Tories pledge superfast broadband by 2017
The Conservative Party has promised to deliver broadband speeds of 100 mbps per second to most British homes by 2017 if it wins power at the general election.Launching its "technology manifesto"...
Vast majority of Twitter users fakes and fraudsters, says report
Just one in five people in Twitter are genuine, according to a new report by Barracuda Labs. The survey analysed more than 19 million Twitter accounts and found that the social networking website is overrun...
Don't cut off illegal file-sharers but fine them, says BT boss
Illegal file-sharers should be fined instead of having their accounts suspended, according to the head of the UK's biggest telecoms company."If someone is accused a fine can be issued, a bit like...
Mobile technology to monitor every movement developed
Japanese researchers have developed a mobile phone that could allow prying bosses to keep tabs on every movement of their staff.The mobile technology, created by phone giant KDDI Corporation, works by...
Global IT spending returns to growth but recovery not here yet
Global IT spending will rise in 2010 but the majority of IT budgets will remain flat, according to Ovum.The analysts said that some chief information officers (CIOs) will see increases in budgets of between...
Google sued over Buzz violating data privacy laws
Google has been sued by a Gmail user for allegedly violating data privacy laws when it launched social network service Buzz last month.Andranik Souvalian of Cranston, Rhode Island, has filed a complaint...
Icann to reconsider .xxx scheme
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has confirmed that it will reconsider a plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult sites. In 2005, Icann had given the green...
Microsoft Security Essentials distributed in 74 countries, web giant announces
Just five months after launching Security Essentials, Microsoft has moved to increase the distribution of its free anti-virus and malware tool from 17 countries and eight languages to 74 countries and...
Don’t blame employees for social engineering attacks, says security expert
Companies that fall so-called social engineering attacks should not blame employees, an internet security expert has said."The real problem is weak security procedures, but individuals tend to get...
UK web users don't disagree with government regulation, survey suggests
The majority of UK web users are not opposed to the government getting involved in the regulation of the internet, a new survey for the BBC World Service has found.The poll, conducted by GlobeScan for...
IT staff don't ask managers for help, new survey reveals
Most IT workers would not turn to their managers for help, a new survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Library has found.Fourty-two per cent of those asked said that they do...
ICO calls for privacy protection
The value of personal information and privacy protection has been underlined in a new report released by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) this week.Information Commissioner Christopher Graham...
New device promises silent phone conversations
A new device that could allow people to conduct silent phone conversations has been presented by researchers.The technology, on display at the Cebit electronics fair in Germany, uses nine electrodes that...
US admits more needs to be done in cyber security
The US government has said that more needs to be done to protect Americans from cyber attacks. Speaking at the world's biggest security conference in San Francisco, homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano...
World Cup software completed by end of March
The Indian group that has won the rights to supply the event management software for this summer's football World Cup in South Africa has expressed its confidence that the system will run smoothly."We...
Global spending on PCs to jump by 12 per cent in 2010, Gartner forecasts
Worldwide spending on PCs will increase by 12.2 per cent to $245 billion this year, analyst firm Gartner has predicted. "The PC industry will be overwhelmingly driven by mobile PCs, thanks to strong...
Microsoft biggest R&D spender in 2010
Microsoft is poised to become the biggest research and development (R&D) spender in the world, the company's chief operating officer has said.Speaking at the London School of Economics, Kevin Turner...
IT bosses should be 'great sales people,' says BlueSky
IT directors and chief information officers should learn from the best sales people in order to be successful, an expert has said.Speaking at a management seminar, Marc Jantez of management and training...
Masterminds of Mariposa botnet arrested by Spanish police
Spanish people have arrested three men responsible for the so-called Mariposa botnet, one of the world's biggest networks of virus-infected computers.The investigators said that the botnet, which is understood...
Apple takes legal action against HTC over phone patents
Apple has sued phone maker HTC accusing it of infringing 20 patents that are used in the iPhone.In its legal filing, Apple said the patent infringements covered technology used in the device's interface...
New service allows Facebook friends share money
A new application allows social network friends to send small payments to each other for small value transactions.The service, called Buxter, handles transactions in US dollars and Euros, with plans to...
Brussels approve Orange and T-Mobile UK tie-up
The European Commission has given Orange and T-Mobile the green light to merge their UK networks.It is now expected that the tie-up of France Telecom-owned Orange and T-Mobile's brand in the UK, which...
Four out five of consumers dissuaded by slow websites
A whopping 82 per cent of consumers have said that badly-performing websites deter them from purchasing products from that company online or in store, a new study has found.According to the research, which...
Browser choice for Window users
Window users across Europe are to be offered browser choices following a deal between Microsoft and the European Commission.Starting from Monday, a pop-up window will ask users whether they want to choose...
Old-style Playstation 3 owners urged to stop using the machine
Sony has urged the owners of older versions of Playstation 3 to stop using the console for the time being because of a problem with the Playstation Network."We hope to resolve this problem within...
Microsoft fights Waledac botnet
Microsoft has been given the green light by a Virginia court to cut off 277 internet domains associated with Waledac botnet, one of the ten biggest networks of compromised computers in the US and a major...
