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The Guardian is merging its technology development and product management functions to create a new digital development department.

Multinational corporations have significantly increased their take-up of cloud services over the past year, research by analyst firm Ovum reveals.

IBM has introduced qualification courses for its Power systems and System z mainframes throughout Scottish universities and colleges.

Security experts have called for UK government departments to be vigilant after chancellor George Osborne revealed that 20,000 e-mails are sent by hostile intelligence agencies to the UK government each month.

The remaining NHS National Programme for IT could be scrapped entirely, as the project's aim to deliver electronic records for every patient has fallen far below expectations, according to a National Audit Office report.

Dell has boosted profits by 177% since last year after increasing sales to enterprise customers.

Cognizant is searching for someone to run its business consultancy operation in Europe as it attempts to emulate the growth rates of its IT services business.

A damning report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed the woeful state of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), nine years after the hugely ambitious project was launched.

"Cloud Power Delivered" is the subtitle of this year's Microsoft TechEd conference, held in Atlanta and attended by around 10,000 IT professionals and developers. Tim Anderson reports from the event.

Orange and Barclaycard have introduced the first near-field communication (NFC) mobile payment system in the UK.

The Guardian's former head of digital Mike Bracken has been appointed the government's director of digital at the Cabinet Office.

Dell plans to hire more UK staff for its enterprise services division by the end of June 2011.

Salesforce.com posted a 97% profit slump since last year despite its subscription-based CRM software growing to be used by over 97,000 companies.