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Ambulance service lost 999 calls when clocks went back

 20 February 2012

IT glitch caused 71 emergency calls to be dropped during switch from British Summer Time last year, London Ambulance Service (LAS) confirms

Pharma giant Roche adopts Google Apps

 17 February 2012

Swiss drugmaker will roll out Google's email and collaboration suite to 90,000 employees across 140 countries

HMRC renegotiates Capgemini megadeal

 17 February 2012

HM Revenue and Customs has reached a new agreement over billion-pound 'Aspire' IT outsourcing contract

Health and safety inspector loses nuclear plant data

 17 February 2012

Health and Safety Executive employee loses data about Hartlepool nuclear power plant on an unencrypted memory stick in India

Cisco appeals Microsoft's Skype acquisition

 16 February 2012

Network equipment vendor asks European Commission to oblige companies to support 'standards-based interoperability' following $8.5 billion deal

Atos, EMC and VMware enter cloud joint venture

 15 February 2012

Canopy will offer the full range of cloud-related services from private cloud consultancy to software-as-a-service applications

London NHS Trusts seek £400m patient record system

 15 February 2012

London healthcare providers are the latest to tender for electronic patient record system, as CSC's NHS-wide project continues its slow death

HCL to cut 250 call centre staff in Northern Ireland

 15 February 2012

Despite recent commitment to local investment, Indian firm plans to close one of its Northern Irish BPO centres

Google-Motorola deal approved by EU and US

 14 February 2012

EU and US regulators approve Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility but other national regulator approval still crucial

MoJ seeks offender monitoring system worth up to £3bn

 14 February 2012

The Ministry of Justice has tendered for a electronic offender monitoring solution, including mapping software, anklets, mapping and communications

Mobile payments will boost crime, say security pros

 13 February 2012

KPMG survey finds that 92% of information security officers believe that the adoption of mobile payments will increase cyber crime

Irish telco admits data breach affecting 7,000 customers

 10 February 2012

Irish Data Protection commissioner slams Eircom for "unacceptable delay" in notifying customers that data including financial records was stolen on laptops

National Grid seeks to replace ERP for commercial arm

 10 February 2012

Utility infrastructure operator looks to replace existing SAP implementation with a new system designed specifically for its commercial division

Oracle buys Taleo in latest cloud HR deal

 09 February 2012

After SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors and Salesforce.com’s Rypple purchase, Oracle buys SaaS talent management supplier Taleo for $1.9 billion

Foxconn B2B sites shut down after hackers leak logins

 09 February 2012

Three client service portals from the world's largest electronics manufacturer have been shut down after hackers release login data

NHS exec quits over husband’s ‘irregular’ IT projects

 09 February 2012

Deputy CEO of NHS Trust steps down after husband, the associate IT director at a local hospital, is sacked over “irregular” IT spend totalling £600k

Misys boss to join CSC as CEO after Temenos merger

 08 February 2012

Troubled IT services company appoints Mike Lawrie as CEO as banking software vendor Misys agrees terms of merger with Swiss rival Temenos

Greenpeace puts Oracle last in green IT rankings

 08 February 2012

Environmental pressure group rates enterprise IT vendors on green solutions, their own energy impact and green IT advocacy

Cisco issues burning server warning 

 07 February 2012

Certain blades in networking giant's Unified Computing System are prone to overheating following power transistor failure

Anonymous claims Symantec source code leak

 07 February 2012

Hackivisit group leaks what it says is the source coude for Symantec's remote desktop access software pcAnywhere amid allegtions of extortion

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