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Intel funds smart city research at London universities

25 May 2012

Chipmaker launches "sustainable connected cities" research institute at UCL and Imperial College

Lloyds' former web security boss in £2.5m fraud charge

25 May 2012

The former head of fraud and security for digital banking at Lloyds has been charged with defrauding the bank of £2.5 million

Post Office drops BT as phone and broadband partner

25 May 2012

The UK's Post Office has dropped BT as partner for its home phone and broadband services in favour of Fujitsu, TalkTalk and Capita

Union to hold 'urgent' talks with HP over UK job cuts

24 May 2012

Trade union Unite fears up to 1,600 UK jobs on the line as Hewlett-Packard cuts 8% of its workforce

Google did not infringe Oracle patents – jury verdict

24 May 2012

Jury clears Google innocent of patent infringements but copyright dispute remains undecided

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Highlights

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Radical data centre designs

How Facebook, NREL, AMD and Medway Council are rethinking data centre design to minimise energy costs and carbon emissions

Information Management

Betfair upgrades marketing IT platform

The online betting exchange is mid-way through a marketing technology upgrade that has already improved IT-marketing collaboration

The Cloud & Virtualization

Exposing the cracks in cloud security

A recent investigation into the security of cloud computing services exposed some simple flaws

Information Management

Talis continues semantic evolution with Kasabi

'Data marketplace' from Birmingham's semantic web pioneer offers cloud-like functionality, but will it bring linked data to the masses?

Comms & Networking

Android extends smartphone market-share lead over iOS

Google's mobile operating system accounted for 56% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, Gartner finds, more than double Apple's 23% share

Information Management

The metadata strategy behind news search service Factiva

How sophisticated metadata management has allowed Dow Jones & Company's news search engine to meet customer demand and technological potential

Management & Skills

German workers cold on the social enterprise – study

Google-commissioned survey finds professionals in Europe's strongest economy are the least enthusiastic about social media in the workplace

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