Stu Robarts

A report says that the UK Government has failed to ensure adequate competition for rural broadband roll-out and has made a number of recommendations.

Social influence tracker Klout has been bought by Lithium in a deal reportedly worth US$200 million.

Capable of hitting a trillion calculations per second, It will be used for climate modelling, aircraft airflow calculations and designing new materials.

A new algorithm is able to predict the home location of Twitter users without the use of location data and to a better extent than existing competitors.

A huge rise in the number of devices communicating with each other via the Internet will drive changes in supply chains, such as in marketing and product design.

Philips has announced its Cloud Monitor Base that provides direct access to an organisation's VMWare or Citrix environment.

HP has announced an number of new and expanded printing services aimed ensuring cost-effective and efficient printing for organizations.

A malware attack affecting UNIX servers is sending out millions of malicious emails every day.

Dropbox has reportedly purchased Zulip, improving its potential offering in a competitive cloud storage market.

Microsoft and Google are reportedly attempting to block plans by Asus to release dual-OS devices.

Virgin Media has announced the winners of its Three New Things competition, which seeks out new technology with the potential to improve lives.

Reports suggest the AGM of the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) gave a bleak outlook.

Contactless payments using mobile handsets are predicted to grow 7 billion by 2018.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust will digitise its paper care records to improve care quality and reduce costs.

Vodafone Germany will allow corporate and public sector clients to secure their data using a pin and digital signature.

Google is expanding its Cloud Platform Partner Program to provide more resources and support for businesses that use its cloud platform.

IBM has purchased Cloudant, a JSON based service that allows developers to store large amounts of data for access from applications.

PCs shipments will continue to decline from 2014 to 2018 following the biggest tumble on record.

Following a strong performance in Europe, salesforce.com is opening three new datacentres in the UK, France and Germany.

HGST has announced the launch of the Ultrastar C15K600 family of HDDs in response to a predicted increase in demand for Performance Enterprise HDDs.

WD has launched a new line of 3.5-inch, high-capacity HDDs optimised and benchmarked for surveillance use.

Blackberry has launched a host of new or updated services for business focusing on security and reliability.

Google has announced plans to roll-out its super-fast Internet service to another potential 34 cities in the US.

Organisations that have migrated to the cloud save over 15 per cent on IT spending as a percentage of revenue, according to new research.

The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal must re-examine if BSkyB should provide its sports channels to third-party providers for broadcast at reduced wholesale rates.