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Carbon Reduction Commitment: More than 12,000 businesses risk £45,000 fine

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ARM shares soar to all-time high on take over rumour

Apple and Intel rumoured to be looking to buy the Cambridge-based microchip designer

BCS Council opens elections

Deadline for nominations is 1 November

Blue Coat hires Michael Borman as new CEO

Ex-CEO Brian Nesmith to work on product strategy

Advertising Standards Authority targets Twitter advertising

Regulator to monitor social media marketing

Gartner raises chip industry revenue forecast

Analyst optimistic about semiconductor market

Latest Technology News

Microsoft warns VMware customers about lock-in

VMware lock-in ad kicks off VMworld

White hat hackers damage huge Pushdo spam botnet

Command servers for Pushdo/Cutwail put out of action

VMware grows cloud stack with two acquisitions

VMware buys Integrien, TriCipher to grow cloud offering

Skype launches SIP-based Skype Connect for business

Enterprise service ties VoIP network into corporate phone system

Web content management is essential technology for enterprise, says Gartner

Content management systems to generate more than $1bn in sales

Intel buys Infineon's wireless division for $1.4bn

Chip maker looks to boost smartphone technology


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Wikileaks move servers to nuclear bunker under Stockholm

Data centre is in Cold War bunker one hundred feet underground

Salesforce.com rolls out contact-data service

The move follows its acquisition of crowd-sourced data vendor Jigsaw

Windows Phone 7 is released by Microsoft

Over 3.5 million hours of stress tests were carried out on 10,000 prototypes

Virgin Media publishes average broadband speeds

ISP reveals more accurate bandwidth figures

Thorntons signs six year IT services deal with HP

Chocolate maker outsources IT management and support


Fujitsu launches green IT consulting to cut energy use

Power bills could drop by 20%, says contractor

Charles Phillips may leave Oracle, analysts say

Oracle denies claims that co-President Phillips is close to leaving

Google CEO Schmidt to speak at IFA show

Eric Schmidt to close Berlin trade conference

Europe and China hold patent enforcement meeting

Customs officials meet to reduce intellectual property infringement

Trade group talks stall over Net Neutrality

Government regulation proves sticky talking point


Sweden reopens rape case against WikiLeaks founder Assange

New prosecutor believes a crime was committed

Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia to have 1.2 billion Internet users by 2015

Internet firms need to build presence in emerging economies now, say consultants

RSA Scandinavian arm signs Patni deal

Application management contract for Coban Group won by Patni

US regulator investigates Google, ITA deal

Google to buy air-travel flight-information software firm for $700 million in cash

Microsoft co-founder sues Google, Apple, others over patents

Paul Allen's patent lawsuit involves 11 top e-commerce firms


BCS launches IT service management qualifications

Six new qualifications address the growth in the sector

HP pays $55 million to settle US fraud, bribery case

HP accused of paying kickbacks to win US government contracts

Cisco makes play for Skype, reports TechCrunch

TechCrunch: Cisco looks to buy Skype before IPO

CA buys cloud security firm Arcot for $200m

CA to boost its cloud offering with fraud prevention specialists

Google acquires social games developer SocialDeck

Internet search giant buys its fifth company this month


China policy could force foreign security firms like Cisco and Symantec out

China is imposing rules that require companies to use Chinese security products

Microsoft brags about customer ditching VMware

CH2M Hill plans to dump VMware for Hyper-V

AMD netbook chips to be tested in servers

Low-power chips based on the Bobcat architecture may be part of AMD's future server offerings

HP raises 3PAR offer to $1.8bn, outbids Dell again

HP offers US$27 per share

USB drives help spread one in four worms

Sort out flash drive security, says Panda


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