Dean Wilson

The UK technology industry experienced highest growth in nearly a decade, according to KPMG.

Telenav has acquired GPS navigation firm skobbler for tens of millions.

Ericsson plans to expand its business in Europe and China, where there is increasing demand for 4G.

Android dominated nearly 80 per cent of the smartphone market in 2013, according to Canalys.

EMC revealed that it will cut up to 1,000 jobs as part of its latest restructuring effort.

Oracle has expanded the range in its Cloud Marketplace with the addition of two new business apps.

Facebook has developed a prototype Blu-ray storage system that could save money and the environment.

Lenovo has unveiled four new ThinkServer solutions for the enterprise market.

SAP and Atos are teaming up with the European Union to bring in new standards that highlight the safety of cloud services and programmes.

Device can use multiple different materials on the same print run, opening a world of possibilities for manufacturers.

Panda Security announced that it will support Windows XP past Microsoft's official end-of-life date in April.

Amazon Web Services unveils new SSD-based Dense Compute nodes aimed at boosting storage performance.

Red Hat has updated its cloud solutions as it moves towards the goal of an open hybrid cloud.

Apple has updated iWork for iCloud, tweaking parts of the UI, and adding new editing and other quality of life improvements.

Microsoft has launched the First Class Computing programme in the run-up to September's new primary school Computing syllabus.

AMD has released the 16-core Opteron 6370P and 12-core Opteron 6338P processors for enterprise server use.

Microsoft will begin offering customers the choice of where to store their data, a bold move following the confidence-shaking NSA snooping revelations.

Almost three-quarters of practising attorneys at small US law firms are more likely to adopt cloud computing this year, according to a survey by LexisNexis.

Research by Samsung highlights the lack of technology in schools, which parents believe will hinder their children in the future.

Backblaze has tested a range of hard drives, finding higher failure rates in Seagate ones and almost perfect performance from Hitachi devices.

BlackBerry secured a deal with the Defence Information Systems Agency for 80,000 BlackBerry phones.

SanDisk delivers a new low-latency SSD that connects via existing DIMM slots in enterprise servers.

China showcases the China Operating System (COS) in effort to reclaim domestic market from US-run businesses.

IBM has begun looking for a new buyer for its x86 server unit after last year's failed deal with Lenovo.

BSkyB and Vodafone are considering partnering in an effort to fight BT for dominance in the TV and broadband sectors.