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Gartner Predicts PC Shipment Growth Upturn in Fourth Quarter

Gartner's latest assessment of worldwide PC shipments expects the PC market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter, and little affected by Microsoft's Windows 7 release.

Tory Paper Demands Government Give Back Our Data

A new Conservative think tank report is calling for citizen-centric, open source IT development to put an end to wasteful, monolithic central government IT projects.

Customers Get Better Support From Apple Than Dell and HP

Apple customers were more satisfied with the outcome of tech-support calls than HP or Dell customers, according to a study that concluded Apple was more likely to retain loyal, repeat customers.

Social Networkers Are Slack On Internet Security

A Webroot survey has found those using social networks such as MySpace and Facebook are not doing enough to protect themselves from hackers and phishing scams.

IBM Discovers Scheme To Manipulate Encrypted Data

A Researcher at IBM has found an encryption method that lets you operate on data without decrypting it: good news for the cloud and spam filters

UK Public Sector Asks for £1 Billion For Radical IT Change

Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM

Businesses Losing £6000 Per Wrong Employee

A SurePayroll survey finds businesses are losing up to $10,000 (£6065) for every bad hire--and a wide pool of desperate applicants and hurried hiring practices compound the problem

Questions Continue About Jobs’ Health

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have saved his life with a liver transplant, but questions about his medical leave could continue to dog his company, even after a highly successful June that saw the rollout of the iPhone 3G S.

Open Source Is Not the Same As An Open Service

Companies need the freedom to get at their data, to choose hosted or in-house options and more. All this can be found amongst open source solutions - but choose carefully, says Jason Brooks

Smart Grid Firm EnerNOC Buys Into Carbon Reporting

EnerNOC expects to use carbon accounting firm eQuilibrium to establish a lead role when companies have to meet greenhouse gas reporting rules

Tesco Expected To Disrupt UK Banking With Outsourced Model

Tesco and others are using outsourcing and new IT to break further into the UK banking sector

Security Software Up 20 Percent In 2008

According to Gartner, some of the growth was due to increased demand for appliance-based products

Moka5 Offering Hosted Desktop Virtualisation

Moka5 officials say they have found a way to make desktop virtualisation work for both the business and the end user

Companies Expect Job Cuts But Not In IT

Nine out ten companies say they have no plans to cut back on their IT headcount despite making redundancies in other areas

Don’t Block Your Staff From The Web!

The Web is a dangerous place, but if you try to keep your employees off it, you'll only make things worse, says Don Reisinger

Are Mainframe Skills Dying Out In The UK?

Big old tin is a useful part of a secure data centre, if you can get someone to look after it, says Computer Associates

UK Still Lags At Open Source

Despite a recession which could promote open source, the UK is less likely to use it than Mali

Modernising Legacy Apps Key To IT Cost Cutting

A report from Forrester Research suggests enterprises and cost-conscious businesses alike are looking for ways to modernise key legacy applications

VMware vSphere 4.0 Kicks Rivals Into Touch

A host of improvements and additional functions takes vSphere 4.0 ahead of the competition, easing the creation of large scale virtual machine infrastructure.

Does Your Business Need Mac’s Snow Leopard Or Windows 7?

The latest Mac OS runs faster 64 bit apps and supports MS Exchange, but will that be enough to convince companies to take it onboard?

Brown Calls On Tech Knights Sugar And Berners-Lee

The beleaguered Brown government has turned to the man credited with developing the web, and the founder of Amstrad

Tough Times Need Disruptive Technologies

The recession is encouraging interest in ‘green' IT, virtual servers and desktops, the growth of cloud computing and the rise of the netbook.

New Economy, New Confusion?

There's a big buzz around the "new economy" of sustainable development. But is anyone actually sure that that means, asks Peter Judge: Growth, or no growth?

Low Carbon Buildings Could Be Forced By Tax Rises

Government targets for sustainable development may need more effort - and IT has a part to play, according to debate in Westminster

The Best Browser for Business Is……

Cloud computing and company web apps have raised the profile of web browsers in business, but how on earth do you decide which browser?

Experts Urge Green IT Education For Inefficient Businesses

Educating the companies on what they can do to save money, and giving them the tools to do so, would go a long way in driving the adoption of energy-efficient products and methods