A new report analysing the distribution of rural broadband subsidies has found the Tories’ “wait and see” policy could do them out of the rural vote

The House of Lords has criticised NATO’s lack of cooperation with the EU, claiming member states are being left vulnerable to cyber attacks

The social network giant’s sustained refusal to adopt the UK’s Ceop online protection scheme for children has led to a meeting with the Home Secretary today

Responding to Apple’s patent claim against the Nexus One, HTC says it made touchscreen phones five years before Apple did

Although China has preferred to develop its own software in the past, the need for standardised systems is growing, according to Gartner

The House of Lords has approved the Digital Economy Bill, leaving the fate of file-sharers in the hands of the Commons, while a study claims piracy is costing a million jobs in Europe

Too many graduates are being diverted into lucrative jobs in finance when they could be engineers or techies, defence experts believe

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series will lack the ability to cut, copy and paste text, similar to Apple’s iPhone upon that device’s release

Microsoft plans to appeal the $105.7 million legal judgment leveled against it in a patent-infringement suit brought by VirnetX

Java creator James Gosling assures the Java faithful that the software is safe and secure in Oracle’s hands.

By including the new Red Hat virtualisation-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn’t exist previously

Microsoft is disputing Core Security Technologies’ description of a security issue affecting Microsoft’s Virtual PC software as a vulnerability

Google releases tool to help Microsoft Exchange customers move their email, calendar and contact data to Google Apps

Cisco unveiled a refreshed line of fixed Ethernet switches, new services and enhanced routers as part of its larger Borderless Networks strategy

A survey by AT&T finds nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of small businesses could not survive without wireless technology

While activity around CRC is increasing, businesses are in the dark about achieving compliance, according to CloudApps chief executive

If Facebook traffic really is going to be bigger than Google traffic, then a lot of people will have to change the way they operate on the web, says Peter Judge

The CEO of free software firm Global Graphics is urging companies to adopt free software models in order to reap financial rewards

The city of Peterborough is working with IBM to develop an online portal for measuring environmental data

Facebook has surpassed Google to become the most visited site in the US, while search queries continue to grow at a phenomenal rate

Companies should be more vigilant about tracking where old hardware eventually ends up, according to the Environment Agency and Computer Aid

Microsoft has upped its ante in support of the open source JavaScript library known as jQuery

Dell named Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson and HannStar Display in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco on 12 March, alleging that the manufacturers were fixing display prices at Dell’s expense

Researchers at Core Security Technologies are warning of a vulnerability affecting versions of Microsoft’s Virtual PC software that can be used to bypass several Windows security mechanisms

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents on federal law enforcement approaches to gathering data on Facebook and other social networks

The US FCC officially unveiled its National Broadband Plan on 16 March which looks to connect up to 100 million American households to high-speed broadband service

Twitter today unveiled @anywhere, a service resembling Facebook Connect that will extend much of the functionality of its successful microblogging platform to third-party sites

Apple sold 1m iPhone handsets in its first 74 days on the market and 1.05 million Motorola Droids were sold in the US in the same time, but Google has failed to move even 200,000 Nexus Ones

Another CA cloud buy will integrate 3Tera’s AppLogic with other technologies to provide cloud management tools as part of overall enterprise IT environment

Salesforce Chatter preview promises to make social networking features available for developers to build enterprise social apps

Microsoft has previewed its Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its browser, which promises to be more interoperable than ever

New Westmere-based server chip range aims at single-core server refresh lifecycles, touting a 15:1 server consolidation ratio and 5-month payback

Could Google’s Nexus One phone be renamed, because a telecoms company owns the trademark?

Microsoft claims its Windows Phone 7 Series was developed under time pressure, curtailing its compatibility with Windows Mobile 6.x apps

Microsoft has unveiled the developer platform for its Windows Phone 7 Series, introducing an end-to-end development environment

Analyst firm Gartner argues that combining data centre networks can often create more problems that it solves

Innovative IT will give citizens more control over their own health management and help cut costs and generate jobs, the EC believes

Apple’s strategy for replacing faulty iPad batteries amounts to sending back a whole new, date-free device, at a cost of $105.95 to the user

Google could shutter its Google.cn search engine within weeks after talks with the Chinese government over censorship have stalled, according to a March 13 report in the Financial Times

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is finding little support from her old company in her bid to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer

IBM aims to discredit a study in India that claimed its mainframe business practices could hinder competition in that country’s market

Apple may have sold 120,000 iPads on its first day of preorders on 12 March, according to analyst estimates

Ruckus Wireless is offering enterprise 802.11n Wi-Fi access points for around £400

A group of British tech companies are calling on the government to encourage the growth of the IT industry through tax breaks

Google’s Nexus One could be delayed in the UK, while its sister phone - the HTC Desire - might be saddled with the unpopular Vodafone 360 interface

The software giant is slated to announce the Silverlight Analytics Framework rivalling Adobe’s Omniture acquisition at its MIX10 conference

A new report from the Internet Crime Complaint Centre found the amount of losses from cyber-crime doubled in 2009, with those between the ages of 30-49 hardest hit

Big brand loyalty kudos go to Apple iPhone and Google Android OS smartphone users, says a new report, while BlackBerry users are a less content bunch

A Facebook quiz and local policing feedback board are just two of the ideas that have emerged from a government public data initiative

A new self-assessment tool from Jericho Forum aims to establish a baseline for checking the effectiveness of IT security products

Google has received complaints since it expanded its Street View service last week to cover 96 percent of UK roads

One Laptop Per Child has delivered more than 3500 of its so-called $100 laptops to Afghanistan so far

As Oracle cemented its purchase of Sun last week, the head of open source at Sun left to take up a post at the Open Source Initiative

Amendments to the Digital Economy Bill have been criticised by industry groups, who claim the measures will be ineffective

Apple and Nokia have requested that the patent infringement cases each has filed against the other be held mid-2012, according to a report

The networking giant is moving into the portable container data centre market

Will the takedown of more than 25 percent of the command-and-control servers tied to the Zeus Trojan have a lasting effect?

Google has launched its extensions for Google Wave, a move to boost the open-source, real-time collaboration platform’s functionality with the help of outside application developers

Intelligent multitasking? The newest Apple iPhones, due out this summer, will add multitasking to their long feature lists, according to a report

UC Expo: a panel of proprietary vendors all said that they could match the price of open source options such as Asterisk

Berkshire village gets fibre optic broadband in trials that could lead to one million extra homes accessing up to 100Mbps speeds

Stephen Timms has attacked the Conservative Party’s new proposal for the rollout of super-fast broadband via Twitter

Twitter has switched on its long awaited location-sharing feature and made the service opt-in, tagging users’ tweets based on where they are tweeting from and pointing the way forward for privacy strategies

UC Expo: A single appliance designed to replace phones and other comms systems with Microsoft software has launched in the UK

Alan Johnson has defended his decision to extradite hacker Gary McKinnon, claiming he needs to “face the music”

Barnes & Noble plans to release an e-reader application for Apple’s upcoming iPad tablet PC, suggesting a strategy of porting its own e-reader brand onto as many screens as possible

Old-fashioned flywheel power systems are providing hospital data centres with clean, green backup power using a centuries-old technology

The Opera Mini 5 Beta for Google Android includes such features as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and boosted speed

Seven smaller web browser makers have asked Microsoft to alter its EU browser ballot screen to give their products equal billing

SPARC servers and Solaris are key to its single-stack approach, says Oracle. But should customers believe it?