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Santander to build £100m data centre near Leicester

 06 February 2012

Banking giant, which acquired Alliance & Leicester in 2008, commissions construction firm to build new 320,000 square foot data centre facility

Logica wins HR contract with BAE Systems

 06 February 2012

Services giant will run BAE's human resources six years, improving human capital insights and employee engagement, it claims

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

Central govt cut IT costs by £800m last year – NAO

 02 February 2012

National Audit Office figures show that central government departments reduced their total IT spending by around 10% last year

Facebook IPO reveals 'hacker' culture

 02 February 2012

CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlights iterative, 'meritocratic' software development ethos in inaugural SEC filing – and lists it among risk factors

HP wins a battle in legal war with Oracle

 01 February 2012

California Supreme court rejects Oracle's fraud claim against HP, and orders both companies to unseal documents relating to their Itanium dispute

Open data consultation finds widespread privacy fears

 30 January 2012

Privacy was a 'recurring theme' in the responses to the UK government's "Making Open Data Real" consultation, Cabinet Office reveals

Atos wins £74m Department of Health desktop deal

 30 January 2012

Five-year contract will help DH realise government IT strategy of using SMEs and open source software, outsourcer claims

ICO serves Scottish council with record £140k fine

 30 January 2012

Midlothian Council posted details of children in care to wrong recipients on five occasions in as many months, prompting ICO's largest ever penalty

US Smart Grid projects failing on security

 27 January 2012

Report reveals that around a third of US Smart Grid projects that have received Department of Energy funding did not meet security requirements

Serco to cut around 500 jobs in the UK

 27 January 2012

Services giant plans to streamline its management structure and consolidate its own back-office functions

Govt ignored calls for IT supplier probe, say MPs

 26 January 2012

Public Administration Select Committee disappointed that the government did not act on its recommendation to investigate alleged "oligopoly" of IT suppliers

Nokia revenue drops 21%

 26 January 2012

Steep drop in smarthphone sales drags Finnish device maker into €950 million loss as Apple reports strongest ever quarter

NEC to cut nearly 10% of its workforce

 26 January 2012

Japaneses IT and telecommunications giant announces swingeing job cuts and predicts £830 million loss for the financial year

EC reveals data protection reform proposals

 25 January 2012

Reforms seek to unify data protection laws across member states and introduce new obligations for businesses

O2 sends users' phone numbers to website operators

 25 January 2012

Engineer finds that O2 includes customers' phone numbers in HTML headers when they use their mobile devices to browse the web

US govt security website hacked

 24 January 2012

Portal offering Internet security advice taken offline by hacktivist group Anonymous in protest of piracy crackdown

UK ranks 21st in Europe for privacy protection

 24 January 2012

The UK's data protection regime is more lenient than Spain, France and Germany, ranking joint 21st in Data Guidance's Data Privacy Index

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