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Outsourcing provider CSC has closed the acquisition of beleaguered healthcare application provider iSoft for $189m (£115m).

Former government CIO John Suffolk has joined China-based IT company Huawei as global head of cybersecurity.

What role should IT play in business? This is the question Michael Foster, vice-president of IT at Fedex Europe, tackles at the global courier. Cliff Saran reports.

Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.

An NHS trust was forced to buy care records software through the National Programme for IT or face the threat of an £8.8m fine - even though it had a longstanding supplier in place.

Tesco has signed a software licensing and services deal with Microsoft aimed at helping improve the retail giant's global productivity and international growth.

Amazon has closed submissions for its Android app store in Germany following a lawsuit from Apple.

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BT will deliver a corporate network connecting 188 sites.

Online auction site eBay has deployed more than 100 terabytes of flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The S-class flash storage from solid state disk provider Nimbus is believed to be among the world's largest consolidated deployments of network-attached flash storage for virtualisation.

The Hotmail sign-in page is in the news this week, with subtle changes to browser auto-complete behaviour to provide wider browser compatibility.

The ICO says two housing groups must improve data security after a contractor’s missing USB drive, containing unencrypted data, was found in a pub.

Scottish and Southern Energy has outsourced some of its smart metering processes to Logica to help support the UK national roll-out.

The Salvation Army in the UK supports flexible working from home using laptops owned by the charity, but says finding a good way of protecting data was a challenge.

The US has appointed former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel as its new government chief information officer.

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