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Skilled professionals known as data scientists have become highly sought-after by companies such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Google to perform advanced analytics on growing data sets.

Businesses are cautious when it comes to taking up best practice frameworks and standards that could help them manage their software assets more effectively.

A law has come into force to make it easier for SMEs to protect intellectual property, ensuring lower-value cases will be dealt with at the less costly Patents County Court and introducing a damages cap of £500,000 for all claims to the PCC.

Tight deadlines left the Department for Work and Pensions with little choice but to use "unproven" agile methods to develop its £2bn Universal Credit (UC) system, said the Cabinet Office Major Projects Authority (MPA) in a confidential report obtained by Computer Weekly.

A £30 nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours.

IT supplier CSC has repaid £170m after the NHS said it was unhappy with the progress of CSC's Lorenzo patient care records contract. The NHS paid a £200m advanced payment to CSC for the 2011 project costs when a memorandum of understanding was signed.

Four callcentre workers stole over £400,000 from their employer TUI Travel by paying customer refunds to themselves when processing claims.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has completed its acquisition of software company Autonomy for £7.1bn. HP said the acquisition positioned it as a leader in the large and growing enterprise information management space.

19 bugs and 10 security advisories released to address flaws in Cisco’s IOS network OS, Unified Communication Manager and Series 10000 routers.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has completed its acquisition of software company Autonomy for £7.1bn. HP said the acquisition positioned it as a leader in the large and growing enterprise information management space.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has showcased an in-memory database engine for big data applications and a processor to rival IBM, combined in a strategy of engineering hardware and software together under a "parallel architecture" approach, similar to Apple's.

Four callcentre workers stole over £400,000 from their employer TUI Travel by paying customer refunds to themselves when processing claims.

Tablet devices must drop in price to £250 to remain viable in the UK according to market research firm YouGov, which said the Amazon Kindle Fire could undercut rivals to create a two-horse race between Amazon and Apple.

The Royal College of General Practitioners has built its own back-up datacentre using a private cloud architecture, rather than use an external provider.

IT supplier CSC has repaid £170m after the NHS said it was unhappy with the progress of CSC's Lorenzo patient care records contract. The NHS paid a £200m advanced payment to CSC for the 2011 project costs when a memorandum of understanding was signed.

Warwick University has started the last phase of its three-year IT transformation, introducing small, user-driven IT projects to transform its IT operation into one that offers services users need, rather than merely supporting technology.

A £30 nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours.

According to Interbrand's Top 100 Best Global Brands report, Apple saw the biggest rise in brand value while HTC became the one to watch. Interbrand's index places over 20 IT companies in the top 100 index, six of which are in the top 10.

Halliburton has won an appeal hearing on software patentability. The decision is further evidence that the industry lobby - opposed to the stance taken by the UK Intellectual Property Office on software patentability - is beginning to win.

Yahoo co-founder and former chief executive Jerry Yang is talking to private equity firms about taking the internet company private. Talks have so far been informal, but Yahoo's advisors are expected to send financial information this week to interested parties.

In this CW500 Club video, Andy Beale talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud.

Apple has launched its latest smartphone device, iPhone 4S, an updated version of its operating system (OS), iOS 5 and the new iCloud service.

UBS interim CEO Sergio Ermotti has admitted systems in the banks IT infrastructure detected the unauthorised trading of the rogue trader who cost UBS over $2bn, but nothing was done about the warning signals.

Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 after his second bout of medical leave since the start of the year.

Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 after his second bout of medical leave since the start of the year.

Oracle's Fusion applications comprise around 100 products from Oracle's JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel systems, with business intelligence embedded into them.

Marc Benioff, head of Salesforce.com, has given his swan song speech at Oracle Open World, comparing Larry Ellison to an oppressive dictator. He expressed disappointment at Ellison's decision to reschedule Benioff's talk for after the conference officially ends.

UBS interim CEO Sergio Ermotti has admitted systems in the banks IT infrastructure detected the unauthorised trading of the rogue trader who cost UBS over $2bn, but nothing was done about the warning signals.

Video will be the future for all forms of communication, claims John Chambers, CEO of networking company Cisco.

Over 80 sub-postmasters are interested in taking legal action against the Post Office in relation to an allegedly faulty computer system.

Bristol City Council has been cleared to build an IT infrastructure using open source software after a visit from CESG, the cyber security arm of the UK intelligence services.

Computer Weekly has won a prestigious award for its journalism. Freelance contributor and Computer Weekly blogger Mark Ballard won the Best Cybercrime Feature of the Year prize at this year's BT Information Security Journalism Awards. ...

The High Court has overturned a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), explicitly confirming that technical design methods are patentable. The ruling has a direct bearing on the IP standing of software algorithms.