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Fire service IT project delayed and £70m over budget

Another government project blows its budget
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Which cities top the wealth league?

Knowledge is power...
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Wikia Search goes live but results are "pretty bad"

Web 2.0 search engine off to a slow start
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Should data loss be made a criminal offence?

IT industry divided over need for legislation...
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Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws

…but be careful of 'knee-jerk' legislation, warn IT pros
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Operating Systems: Microsoft 30-day grace for XP SP3

…then activation key is required
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Webwatch: Wicked search with user-ranked results to launch

Public to get first look at Wikia Search
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Servers: Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers

But watt's the cost?
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Broadband speeds under scrutiny

Consumers not happy with ISP advertising...
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Oracle profits beat expectations

…in so-called 'tech spend slowdown'
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Xmas shoppers making merry in cyberspace

Tis the season to be clicky...
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Tech skills not valued by businesses

But they will be in future, says Microsoft's Bill Gates...
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HMRC lose 6,500 pensioners' details

Child benefit - tip of the iceberg…
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MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss

Latest breach labelled "mind-bending"...
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Data breach hits thousands of motorists

More info goes missing in the post...
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UK goes mad for social networking

... and is setting the pace in digital services
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Applications: IBM app to measure companies' green efforts

Carbon trading…
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Operating Systems: Details of Vista SP1 revealed

Microsoft promises to improve efficiency
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Mobile tracking tech to take off in Europe

For keeping tabs on people, vehicles and pets...
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Microsoft: Service Pack Blocker tool released

More choice for users…
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Operating Systems: Windows Vista - why you shouldn't skip it

Could it be more perilous not to upgrade?
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Encryption not the key to data security

CIO Jury: People and processes more important
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Operating Systems: Microsoft reaches Windows Server 2008 milestone

Makes RC1 available
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Security Strategy: Data security a top priority for Europe

EC: Collaboration is key…
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Christmas spend online to hit £5bn

So keep your wits about you, advises Apacs
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Domino's sells £1m of pizza over the net in a week

Web dough keeps rising…
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Video: Voice recognition gets motoring......are we all turn into David Hasslehoff?

How talking to your car could be the way of the future..........
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Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

Good Fortune all round for tech heads…
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Stories of the month - November 2007

And what a month it has been with Government calamities, HMRC, iPhones, Tesco and wi-fi piggybacking…
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Moble & Wireless: Google to bid in airwave auction?

Who else will be joining it?...
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Operating Systems: One year on - XP still outshining Vista

XP beta better?…
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Public Sector: Minister calls for ID cards review

HMRC data blunder raises new questions…
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Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009

CIO Jury: "It could be a long wait"…
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Applications: E-payments - Cheap as chips

Cash should be ditched, according to Singapore
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Law & Policy: Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Care with the legal issues is key...
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Public Sector: Gordon Brown orders data security spot checks

Stable door, horse, bolted?
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Digital Defences: Security experts slam HMRC over data loss

Analysis: "You don't want to do it like that"...
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How did 25 million records get 'lost in the post'?

Analysis: Timeline of the UK's worst ever security breach
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IT Director: The A to Z of green IT

Green is the new black...
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SME Director: Software licensing costs set to fall

SaaS and SOA mean more power to the CIO's elbow...
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Operating Systems: Vista - business uptake still slow

Many still happy with XP, says McAfee
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Digital Defences: Missing 25 million child benefit records

Entire database gets lost in the post, says taxman
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Operating Systems: Microsoft rolls out XP SP3 test beta

… customer feedback "a priority" for final release
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IT Director: Tesco IT chief steps down

Cobain looking for a "new challenge"...
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Servers: Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor

Windows-less servers to get virtual loving...
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IT Director: Microsoft plotting to be advertising "powerhouse"

It's gonna get digital, says Ballmer...
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Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...

... which OS is top dog for silicon.com readers?
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SME Director: IBM brains up with $5bn Cognos buy

Speculate to accumulate...
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Operating Systems: Microsoft readies Windows Vista patches

Aim at performance, reliability and stability
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Desktops: Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner

Supercomputing is top of the petaflops...
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WebWatch: Web 2.0 portals open doors for businesses

The digital natives will demand them, says Gartner
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Public Sector: ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn

A hefty price to pay...
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Security Strategy: Phishers snare Salesforce.com data

Customers fall victim too...
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Microsoft picks Ireland for mega data centren

$500m project for Windows Live services
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Servers: Tech industry must step up to climate challenge

"CIOs have a big responsibility," says WWF...
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Desktops: Microsoft still tinkering with Surface

It's not all smooth running...
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Storage: Dell goes shopping for storage solution

Spending $1.4bn on SAN specialist...
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Video: How to get more value out of IT

Get tips from two top CIOs...
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Web: Ballmer - Facebook stake was no mistake

It's not pie in the sky...
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PDAs: iPhone in the UK: Hands up who wants one?

News analysis: Does it have mass appeal?
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Desktops: Lenovo dropping IBM logo two years' early

No need to Think about it anymore...
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Servers: IBM turning green over data centres

Time to take credit for energy efficiency?
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Public Sector: ID cards not about to be scrapped, says gov't

No U-turn here...
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Security: IBM to spend big bucks on in-house security

It's all about "keeping the bad guys out"...
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MiFID: It's finally right here, right now

But was it worth the wait?
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Stories of the month - October 2007

McDonald's wi-fi, The IT Crowd, ID cards and naked PCs...
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Storage: IT managers sweating over storage

Data, data, everywhere...
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Storage: Data centre chiefs under more pressure

Virtualisation on the wish list...
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Retail: Mobile phone payments set to rocket by 2011

Phoney money all over the place...
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Vista: Users do want it, apparently...

... if Microsoft's figures are to be believed
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SME Director: SMEs just want to grow

And government should be helping...
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PDA's: Google-powered phone 'coming next year'

The next best thing to a Gphone?
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O/S Microsoft says sorry for update blunder

Oops, it won't happen again...
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Royal Mail opts for SAP to cut sourcing costs

£300m savings would buy a lot of stamps...
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O/S: Microsoft's coffers swell on Vista, Halo 3

Pats itself on back over "an outstanding start" to year...
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Public Sector: ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office

But what happens if they're not... ?
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Security Strategy: Tech giants team up for secure software

Trust IT...
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Security Strategy: Security threats evolve again

"It's about people and processes too... "
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Full Disclosure: Data breach notification laws are 'just the start'

Full Disclosure: Prevention is better than cure...
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Storage: RFID platform boosts Debenhams' profits

Along with a restyled website...
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Servers: Microsoft rolls over for EU antitrust ruling

Interoperability at last?
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Retail: Online cash payments on the cards?

There's a huge untapped market out there...
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Desktops: Apple riding high on Mac sales, iPhone

Exceedingly good performance...
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SME Director: IBM does SME product range

'Honey I shrunk the Rational Build Forge... '
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Law & Policy:EC to crack down on recycling directive failures

WEEE are watching you...
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IT Director: Gates - 'My work here is not yet done'

What pet projects are still on Mr Microsoft's agenda?
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Telecoms: Microsoft dives into unified comms

'The era of dialling blind is over... '
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Storage: Virtualisation 'could save companies millions'

Give it a couple of years, analysts predict...
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Servers: Microsoft brings RFID to Biztalk

Latest version addresses tagging issues...
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Operating Systems: Windows users getting unwanted auto-updates?

Microsoft investigating...
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BPO: Councils sign £400m shared services deal with IBM

Somerset and Taunton to create joint venture with Big Blue...
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The Top 50 movers and shakers in tech

Agenda Setters 2007...
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