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The NHS Health Apps Library is shutting down after a two-year tenure, shortly after NHS-approved apps were found to leak data

Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC

Seven more security suppliers join Blue Coat encrypted traffic management programme amid fresh warnings of attackers using encryption to hide malicious activity

Royal Bank of Scotland is among the early adopters of distributed ledger technology that could shake up the banking industry

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest trust in the region to choose an electronic patient record system from Allscripts

At VMworld Europe, VMware restates products and roadmap visions that see it react to the perceived inevitability of the cloud, while also getting a grip on containers

Visibility and automation are key areas of cyber security innovation, but firms should concentrate first on the basics and not overlook the human element of security

Capita, CSC, Atos and CGI are among the firms on TfL’s IT systems framework contract, which is worth between £80m and £95m

Beecham Research says machine-to-machine comms and the internet of things (IoT) will turn to low-power wide area networks (WANs) over mobile grids

The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation partners with HyperCatCity to embrace smart technologies to create “an exciting and thriving place”

Mobile by Sainsbury’s MVNO will shut down in 2016, says the supermarket giant

Riverbed plans a suite of SD-WAN services and products underpinned by new SteelHead OS.

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin, is both a threat and an opportunity for financial services – and the banks are taking it very seriously

Broadcast watchdog Ofcom will regulate video-on-demand (VOD) services – such as Amazon Instant Video – although rules for VOD content differ from broadcast

In this week's blogs, analysts consider threat intelligence feeds, Datiphy database security software and Riverbed's new approach to SD-WAN.

GDS launches beta version of payment system that aims to provide standardised electronic payments for public services

Datagres PerfAccel 3.0 resides on a host server to examine application I/O access patterns at the file-system level and boost the performance of underlying storage.

Going to JavaOne this year? Wondering which sessions to attend? Conference veteran Barry Burd is here to help guide your way through Oracle's big conference in San Francisco.

You won't spend every moment at JavaOne in a session, so here is some advice from Barry Burd on how to navigate San Francisco and get the most out of the JavaOne experience.

Yahoo Account Key uses push notifications to provide a fast and secure way to access Yahoo accounts from a mobile device

The CIO of major Nordic hotel chain Scandic Hotels wants to learn more about customers through technology, without being overbearing

As part of its £500m IT transformation, Royal Mail has deployed ServiceNow to manage new suppliers

In this week's round-up of blog posts from around the Web, an analyst takes a closer look at NFV management and orchestration (MANO), explaining why it could play second-fiddle to OpenStack.