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Google fined £415,000 for making Google Maps free

French mapping company Bottin Cartographes sues Google for abusing its dominant market position

Facebook suffers outage a day after IPO filing

Popular social network experiences lengthy loading times, but no one's claiming responsibility

AMD changes chip design methodology

AMD hopes to blur the lines between CPUs and GPUs

Post Office seeks £180m framework for delivery of IT

Wants to transform the organisation

Credit Suisse traders manipulated IT systems to hide losses

Credit Suisse employees circumvented real time reporting systems, says FBI

Researchers develop computer modelling to read people's minds

Team at Berkeley able to decipher specific words

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BT Global Services narrows loss

But no mention of cancellation of NHS IT programme

HP adding OpenFlow networking to Ethernet switches

HP plans to extend OpenFlow support across all switches under its FlexNetwork architecture

UK broadband speeds up 22 percent

Broadband speeds are boosted, following new regulations

VeriSign finally admits 2010 hack but details hidden in SEC filing

Managers not told according to admission buried in regulatory report

EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

EMC has updated its Isilon scale-out NAS appliance to provide integration with the HDFS protocol

Indian court cancels 122 2G licences in $39bn corruption investigation

Indian government will now have to auction the licences and spectrum within four months following previous malpractice


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White House staying mum on call to investigate MPAA for SOPA bribery

The 31,000-signature petition deals with an enforcement issue, the White House says

Stock falls after JDA admits loss and SEC investigation

The company is pledging to cooperate fully with the SEC

Glencore and Xstrata mining IT mix in £50bn mega merger

Commodities giants could look for major tech savings

Trojan gang targets BT, Talk Talk and Sky customers

Thieves target phone service logins to fool verification checks

Met Police data breach shares victims' emails

Information Commissioner has been notified


Facebook IPO application hints about mobile ads, ecommerce plans

Draft prospectus hints at its future plans and reveals previously guarded profit and compensation data

Twitter survey finds only a third of posts are worth reading

University researchers found that useful postings are few and far between

Government failing to protect people from malware, say MPs

Needs to make consumer software more secure

Facebook says censorship puts China out of reach

Huge potential market unlikely to open any time soon

Most companies over-spending on software licenses

Organisations in the UK 'could save 30-40 percent' with proper asset management tools


Sony annual losses soar, now expected to be nearly $3bn

Forecast reflects the sale of its share in a joint venture making LCDs and the flooding in Thailand

Facebook files for IPO, reveals £2.3 billion revenue

Facebook has submitted paperwork to hold a £3.2 billion stock offering

ARM's first 64-bit processors target servers, smartphones

ARM's first processor designs based on its 64-bit architecture will be released later this year

Sony's Howard Stringer steps down as CEO

Kazuo Hirai will take over from current CEO Howard Stringer in April

Alcatel-Lucent completes sale of Genesys call centre business

New business should concentrate on extending product range


Infor challenges SAP and Oracle by revamping support offerings

The new Xtreme support offerings come in three tiers

Consumerisation concerns are overrated, says EIU

Businesses seem to be embracing consumer technology

Government slashes £792m from IT costs in a year

Audited figures give a break down of savings

Government planning £1.5bn IT services framework

Services to range from ERP deployment to data warehousing

Scotland to get 40Mbps broadband by 2015

Scottish Government report outlines public investment


Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G

Cisco adds new high-speed links to Nexus, Catalyst Ethernet switches

Toshiba and Fujitsu announce massive Q3 losses

Toshiba and Fujitsu both still expect a profit for the full fiscal year, but have slashed their forecasts

IT upgrade wiped hacking email to James Murdoch say lawyers

Linklaters later found the email on James Murdoch's old laptop, as well as a hard copy

Riverbed debuts Granite WAN accelerator technology

Data centres will perform like local storage, claims vendor

Salesforce caves to customer pressure over analytics

Enterprise and Unlimited customers to get new features free


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