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The US House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to increase education, research and development to counteract cyberthreats.

Salaries for IT professionals have risen by 7.5% to reach an average wage of over £46,000 in 2011...

Virgin Media has rolled out broadband speeds of up to 1.5Gbps as part of a trial for businesses in the "Silicon Roundabout" area of London...

The next generation of web technology will transform the way businesses work within five to ten years, research by management consulting firm Booz&Co predicts.

A US judge has rejected Oracle's claim for $2.6bn in damages from Google for infringing Java patents, but has given Oracle the chance to come up with a more reasonable claim...

Websites are attacked about 27 times an hour or once every two minutes on average, peaking at 25,000 attacks a minute or seven a second, according to research...

UK foreign secretary William Hague has confirmed that the government is to host an international conference on cyberspace in London on 1 and 2 November 2011.

Storage hardware vendors’ upgrade offers are leading many mainframe users to buy storage they don’t need, which sends operational expenses through the roof because storage resources’ utilisation rates are low, says an expert.

The UK has failed to make it into the top 10 countries with the highest average broadband speed, but neighbouring Ireland scrapes in...

The Tate museum group is scrapping the use of HTML code in favour of open source content management platform Drupal...

Customers have been unable to complete card transactions at the Post Office after a computer glitch across all branches...

Cable telecoms supplier Virgin Media has reported a small drop in business revenue for its second quarter, while the firm also revealed it has lost 18,000 broadband users...

Rapid7 releases Metasploit Pro version 4 with improved automation features and new SIEM and cloud-based pen-testing support.

Top five vendors command no more than 44% of security software market.

Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled out software-as-a-service provider RightNow's CX Intent Guide on its mobile website.

The Public Administration Select Committee has published a scathingly critical report on government's use of IT. We've chosen a selection of the highlights from the report.

Indian SMBs are aggressively adopting managed services. Explore how this market segment will shape up in the near future.

NetApp will try to introduce certifications in its products to the curricula of nine Australian universities, to address a shortage of people skilled in operating its products.

A dedicated information governance council can work, but analysts warn that without proper leadership and decision-making authority, it can fail to drive true business information governance efforts.

The role of CIO is usually associated with large companies with lots of technology and several IT staff. But that's not always the case.

BSkyB has reported a surge in its broadband business in yearly results, taking its subscriber base to 711,000.

The government has axed nearly half of its websites since June last year, following recommendations that all digital public services should be under one URL.

Nokia's woes continue as Apple and Samsung overtake the Finnish giant to become the largest global smartphone manufacturers, according to analyst figures.

The creative industries have welcomed the UK High Court ruling that BT must block access to pirated content aggregator site Newzbin2, but why is the ruling seen as such a game changer?