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Met police confirms FBI conference call hack

03 February 2012

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that a recording posted by Anonymous relates to a conference call between Met officers and FBI agents

BT profit soars in tenth quarter of sales decline

03 February 2012

Telco's revenue fell 4% in final quarter of last year, its tenth consecutive quarter of revenue decline, but pre-tax profit rose by nearly 50% 

Cyber strategy 'too high level' for public, say MPs

02 February 2012

The government must do more to protect UK citizens from cybercrime and address every day concerns, a Commons select committee has warned

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What are IT leaders thinking?

Information Age's 2012 reader survey reveals the UK IT management profession's priorities for the coming year

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Highlights

IT Services

Talent economics

Outsourcing was back in vogue in 2011 but a movement to address the IT skills gap in the UK began in earnest 

Security & Continuity

Showing up security 

Hacktivists and cyber criminals continued to make a mockery of the security practices of some of the world's most respected organisations in 2011

Information Management

Is open data under threat?

Many advocates of open data were dismayed by developments in 2011

The Cloud & Virtualization

Cloud computing – still gathering

Cloud computing did not see a landslide of adoption in 2011, but concrete examples of cloud in action are now abundant

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Data centre power still under pressure

Demand for data centre capacity was tempered by economic circumstances in 2011, but power management remains the hot topic

Information Management

IT's focus shifts to data management

There are signs that data management is eclipsing applications as the IT department’s primary focus

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