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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hit back at calls to delay its flagship Universal Credit scheme because of IT concerns

Utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five-year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m

More than 50% of devices running Google's Android OS have unpatched vulnerabilities, opening them up to malicious apps and other attacks

Government policy flags up suppliers that perform poorly but, with so few, how far can government practically address failed outsourcing contracts?

Microsoft says it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9

Government may appoint 200 digital managers to work across Whitehall departments as part of its transition to transactional digital services

Energy supplier EDF has released an app that enables customers to submit meter readings by using the camera on a smartphone

Government has spent £638m on universal credit IT, with £441m going on design and development, employment minister Mark Hoban reveals

Two U.S. government agencies will adopt cloud file sharing and collaboration services. Security concerns? What security concerns?

Science students had different grade boundaries in January to those in June an exam board reveals, a day after Gove announces GCSEs will be abolished

Ten cities in the UK are to receive £114m government funding for broadband infrastructure of 80-100Mbps and wireless internet access

Dell SecureWorks researchers have discovered a cyber espionage campaign targeting several companies, including two in the energy sector

Microsoft has won a third victory in Germany over Google's Motorola unit in the ongoing patent wars between the two companies

Suffolk County Council is to roll out an app development tool that will enable students across the region to design their own smartphone apps

People in the UK, Middle East and Europe are again facing disruption to the BlackBerry email messaging service

A Facebook engineer has built a server-monitoring tool using heatmaps to assess the status of cache systems and fix datacentre problems