Sinofsky named as Windows division president
News The former Office executive has been leading engineering efforts in the post-Vista era and will now assume business responsibility as well [09 Jul 2009]
Apple's Steve Jobs returns to work
News The company's chief executive has officially returned from a six-month medical leave of absence [30 Jun 2009]
IBM plans to end final-salary pensions
News The company is to launch a consultation with staff about stopping its final-salary pension scheme, while the plans have been criticised by the Unite union [08 Jul 2009]
Microsoft, EC 'in talks' to settle antitrust issues
News Bloomberg has reported that Microsoft is looking to settle several pending issues before EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes steps down at the end of the year [08 Jul 2009]
IT graduate jobs hit hardest by recession
News A new report reveals that graduate jobs in the IT sector have been affected far worse than other industries, with vacancies dropping 44.5 percent this year [07 Jul 2009]
Doctors call for independent NPfIT review
News At its annual representative meeting, members of the British Medical Association supported a motion calling for a review of the entire programme led by Connecting for Health [07 Jul 2009]
SAP user benchmark tests get underway
News Under a deal with user groups, SAP must meet criteria measured by benchmarks before it can introduce price increases for support [06 Jul 2009]
How outage triggered mayhem for hospital datacentre
Analysis When a brief electricity failure struck a datacentre at a hospital in Australia, it started a chain of incidents that resulted in the serious outages of over 20 health applications [06 Jul 2009]
Satyam 'bullish' under new governance model
News Rebranded Mahindra Satyam, and having tweaked its model of governance, the Indian IT services firm is gunning for new contract and client wins in the Asia-Pacific [06 Jul 2009]
FCO drops Ocean telecoms network
News The FCO has withdrawn a tender, worth up to £2.5bn, for a next-generation telecoms network to replace the Government Secure Intranet and other services [03 Jul 2009]
US launches probe into Google Books settlement
News Investigators with the US Justice Department will investigate whether Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws [03 Jul 2009]
BA saves £2m as tech staff work for free
News British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has credited techies for being among the 7,000 of BA's 40,000 staff who helped the company save cash by cutting back on hours or pay [03 Jul 2009]
Global IT spending to fall by 10pc
News Researcher Forrester's prediction is a significant increase on its earlier forecast that worldwide IT spending would drop three percent in 2009 [01 Jul 2009]
Fund for tech start-ups aims to reach £1bn
News The government has announced a venture-capital fund for tech-based businesses that will match private-sector contributions of up to £150m [01 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs calls for gov't IT loans
News MP Andrew Miller, leader of parliament's IT committee, has lent his support to a consortium calling for a £1bn fund to stimulate investment in green tech and shared services [30 Jun 2009]
US extends probe into Oracle-Sun deal
News The Department of Justice wants more time to consider Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun, but Oracle is confident the deal will still go through without problem [29 Jun 2009]
Tata signs call-termination deal with BT
News Under the five-year deal, the Indian provider will be BT's main supplier of voice termination services outside the British company's main countries [26 Jun 2009]
Berners-Lee sketches out plan for gov't data
News Raw government data should be published using open formats to enable mash-ups, according to the inventor of the world wide web [26 Jun 2009]
Tories vow to publish more data online
News A new Conservative government would find the most useful data in 20 areas and publish it online for the public to mashup and use, according to David Cameron [26 Jun 2009]
NHS IT agency faces restructure
News Consultation will take place over the future of the Connecting for Health name [25 Jun 2009]
Whitehall gives nod for increased IT offshoring
News According to the Cabinet Office, sending some tech work abroad could result in cheaper IT services [25 Jun 2009]
Gartner rejigs cloud definitions
News The analyst firm has revamped its list of attributes to help identify authentic cloud services [24 Jun 2009]
Data watchdog steps in over IT project reviews
News The Information Commissioner's Office has demanded the publication of public-sector IT project reviews [24 Jun 2009]
Oracle profit beats analyst expectations
News Oracle's quarterly earnings beat expectations as profit margin hits a record, thanks to robust growth in its maintenance business [24 Jun 2009]
Gov't CIO weighs up public-sector app store
News Government IT chief John Suffolk has said he is considering an applications store for the public sector [22 Jun 2009]
