NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News Alistair Darling has announced that the National Programme for IT will be scaled back or cut completely [07 Dec 2009]
Microsoft's Mehdi on financial impact of Yahoo deal
News Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says that once the two companies have a single paid search platform, both should see double-digit increases in revenue per search [02 Dec 2009]
Apple hits Nokia with copyright countersuit
News In response to the Finnish phone maker's October suit against Apple, the iPhone maker says Nokia is violating 13 patents belonging to Apple [14 Dec 2009]
Yahoo cuts costs with Christmas closure
News Employees have known since April that they will have to take unpaid leave or vacation days for the week between Christmas and New Year as a cost-saving measure [23 Dec 2009]
Government five-year IT plan points to cloud, Web 2.0
News A draft strategy paper outlining the government's IT approach up to 2015 lists Web 2.0, cloud computing and service-oriented architecture as areas of particular interest [01 Dec 2009]
Fujitsu workers to strike in December
News Unite has set dates for strikes by up to 1,500 Fujitsu Services staff in December and January, after talks to avoid industrial action failed [14 Dec 2009]
G Cloud will have an app store
News The government cloud will have software for sale and run across public and private clouds, says the Cabinet Office [03 Dec 2009]
Best Buy, Samsung, others named in GPL lawsuit
News Fourteen consumer electronics companies have been named in a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by the Software Freedom Law Center [15 Dec 2009]
Intel: FTC antitrust lawsuit is 'misguided'
News The chipmaker has responded to a suit filed by the FTC, which alleges that Intel carried out 'unfair' competitive practices in the GPU market [17 Dec 2009]
Europe now world's biggest outsourcing spender
News A report by global sourcing advisory firm TPI examined how much was being spent on outsourcing by G2000 companies [22 Dec 2009]
VoIP service Jajah snapped up by Telefonica
News US-based communications company Jajah has been bought by telecommunications giant Telefonica Europe for $207m [24 Dec 2009]
India IT services market to double over five years
News Driven by infrastructure services, the country's domestic IT services market is set to hit $12.8bn between 2008 and 2013, according to Springboard Research [23 Dec 2009]
O2 eyes VoIP start-up Jajah, says report
News The mobile arm of Telefonica Europe has apparently won a bidding war for the internet telephone company with a $200m offer, according to published reports [21 Dec 2009]
Chartered Semiconductor bought by Abu Dhabi firm
News Advanced Technology Investment Company has completed its purchase of Chartered, and will now turn its focus on merging the Singapore chipmaker with Globalfoundries [21 Dec 2009]
Strong quarter for Oracle as it nears Sun buy
News In the wake of reporting its best second-quarter operating margin ever, Oracle says it expects the EU to approve its purchase of Sun [18 Dec 2009]
Palm sees smaller quarterly loss
News The smartphone maker reports a loss of £48.6m, less than last year and in the previous quarter, but far worse than Wall Street analysts expected [18 Dec 2009]
IBM buys BPM software provider Lombardi
News The buyout is meant to add a department-level approach that was lacking in IBM's lineup of business process management tools [18 Dec 2009]
Strong BlackBerry sales bolster RIM earnings
News The Canadian smartphone company does better than analysts predicted with earnings approaching double what they were in the same quarter last year [18 Dec 2009]
Watchdog attacks 'cumbersome' Whitehall IT systems
News The £350m systems used by the Rural Payments Agency are too complex and 'soak up large amounts of money', according to the Public Accounts Committee [17 Dec 2009]
Intel faces new FTC antitrust lawsuit
News The US Federal Trade Commission argues the chipmaker deprived consumers of choice and stifled competition in the market [17 Dec 2009]
Adobe sees increase in customer demand
News The company has reported a fourth-quarter loss, but says it has seen an uptick in demand for its products [16 Dec 2009]
UK well-placed to use IT for cutting CO2, says study
News The ICT Sustainability Index has found that the UK is one of the world's best-prepared countries to use IT to reduce its CO2 emissions [15 Dec 2009]
OGC reports record £196.7m IT savings
News The Office of Government Commerce has reported record savings from the collaborative procurement of IT [15 Dec 2009]
ContactPoint database to cost £227m
News The government has released budget details for its directory of all children in England [11 Dec 2009]
Outdated IT damaging tax-collection efforts: PAC
News The Public Accounts Committee has warned that delays in introducing new IT are undermining the efforts of HM Revenue & Customs to collect taxes [11 Dec 2009]
