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The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has outsourced the management of e-mail and storage to support a major restructure.

A US energy industry standards body has warned suppliers to improve their defences against cyber attacks.

Billions of pounds of toxic IT contract exposures at the Department for Health could be housed under one central unit, according to reports.

The City of York Council set out to rethink its Internet and voice network services and ended up building a dark fibre network that will support city-wide free wireless.

Airtel’s customer data privacy program will roll out in phases. With the pilot almost completed, Airtel is confident of meeting data privacy regulations.

Economic uncertainty may cause a slowdown in Windows 7 operating system (OS) deployments in Western Europe, according to research firm Gartner.

Social network site Bagcheck has been bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum.

A 10-year-old Californian hacker has exposed a new type of security vulnerability in many mobile games at a hacker conference in Las Vegas.

Research in Motion has said that it will co-operate with the police after it was revealed that London rioters used Blackberry Messenger rather than Twitter to organise looting sprees across the capital, with violence later spreading to Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol.

Adobe has issued fixes for vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave, Photoshop, RoboHelp and Flash Media Server in the latest security update.

A woman has filed a class action suit against Google for scanning all e-mail sent to Gmail account holders to use for targeted advertising campaigns.

The government has moved an alpha version of a pilot website - which could replace all .gov.uk URLs - to beta.

Computer repair company D&J Henry says its business has grown five-fold after hiring apprentices.

Gist, a logistics company specialising in the distribution of chilled, frozen and ambient foods, has implemented IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services.

A parliamentary group of MPs that will look at how the public sector can get more out of outsourcing and shared services will begin work when it has its first meeting this month.

Data quality improvement has boosted revenue at 12% of a sample of UK companies. Progress impeded by poor automation, says research from QAS: 42% use Excel spreadsheets to detect data quality issues.