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Telecoms regulator Ofcom has given mobile phone operators rights to trade radio spectrum holdings to help increase mobile network capacity for consumers.

Westminster City Council chief information officer David Wilde is leaving at the end of this week to take up the equivalent role at Essex County Council.

A national database to allow police forces to share locally held information across the country has been launched by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA).

The European Commission (EC) has approved CSC's acquisition of healthcare software maker iSoft.

Mozilla has released a fifth version of its web browser, Firefox, available to download for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

Several information security pros, via LinkedIn, share their best security awareness tips with SearchSecurity.co.UK.

McAfee have announced McAfee Mobile Security software, available for both smartphones and tablets, which according to a recent press release provides a comprehensive mobile security solution by combining three leading McAfee mobile security products: WaveSecure, VirusScan Mobile and SiteAdvisor® for Android.

The government will extend its interactive crime maps site to enable victims to track their cases online, according to Nick Herbert, minister of state for policing and criminal justice.

Tesco Bank customers are still unable to log into accounts following a migration glitch.

The benefits of enabling your workforce with mobile access to enterprise applications, regardless of whether those applications are in the cloud or in the corporate data centre, are clearly recognised. The ease of providing secure remote access to employees, and the ability to maintain corporate data security policies is, however, not simple.

Government departments have been cancelling freelance IT contractors supplied through SMEs and giving their interim staff business to Capita under orders from the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG), in apparent contradiction of government SME policy.

Oracle's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings climbed 36% to $3.2bn and total revenues were up 13% to $10.8bn. But a decline in hardware sales and a forecast of only 10% to 20% growth in licence sales sent Oracle shares down by as much as 7.5% in late trading.