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Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces

Gearing up for the Games: Integration labs, datacentres and increasing staff

Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
"You have got to have your seatbelt on" says IT chief - but it's worth it

Tags: salesforce.com, google apps, cloud computing, telegraph media group

Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
The winners and losers in tech spending revealed

Tags: public sector, budget growth, financial services, it budgets

£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
Airwave beefed up in time for 2012 Games...

Tags: home office, tetra, london 2012 olympic games, airwave

How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
PayPhrase service goes live

Tags: payphrase, amazon

How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
Wave's co-creator on why businesses are already eyeing Google's collaboration platform

Tags: sap, web 2.0, google, web apps

Hackers breach Guardian Jobs site
News in brief: Job seekers' data may have been exposed

Tags: job seekers, guardian jobs, hack

Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
Mobile apps, marketing kick tech into the mainstream

Tags: marketing, mobile apps, augmented reality

How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
Jaguar Land Rover CIO on cloud computing, leaving Exchange and simplifying IT

Tags: car manufacturer, tcs, tata motors, jaguar land rover

'Cross-border shopping must be made easier'
News in brief: EC calls for simplified retailing

Tags: european commission, eu, shopping, online

How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
bwin working on helping gamers get social

Tags: betfair, innovation, platform, development

Vista jilted for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
Business warming to Redmond's latest OS

Tags: windows 7, operating systems, microsoft, windows vista

Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
Back to the drawing board, says watchdog

Tags: video on demand, channel 4, bbc trust, bbc

2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
But CIOs should ask the CFO for more money now, before all that ageing hardware fails

Tags: it spending, it budgets, equipment failures

Win a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
BT Business and Small Business Week could treat you and a friend to Edinburgh Hogmanay

Windows 7 will be business standard by next year
XP is yesterday's news

Tags: operating system, corporate desktop, windows 7

YouTube presses play on Channel 4 top shows
Thank VoD for that

Tags: channel 4, youtube

Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
Job market research reveals spike in telecoms vacancies

Tags: telecoms, monster, jobs

It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
Brussels calls on tech to cut its own carbon - and help everyone else do the same

Tags: dematerialisation, collaboration, carbon emissions, videoconferencing

Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
IT overhaul signals advent of cloud-based collaboration for one UK company...

Tags: google, cost, users, cloud

BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
Airport operator hopes Microsoft's latest OS will help cut costs and simplify infrastructure

Tags: implementation, cost, microsoft, baa

Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
Self-scan tech in the bag for supermarket giant

Tags: supply chain management, sales, retail, sainsbury's

Amazon offers to be man in the middle for mobile payments
Shoppers can now pay with Amazon whoever they buy with

Tags: mobile payments, amazon

Amazon's Kindle e-book reader arriving in UK this month
Wireless device widens its readership to more than 100 countries

Tags: e-book, amazon, kindle

'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
Wait and see is the downturn motto for IT chiefs

Tags: purchase, budget, cio, fujitsu

Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
Which sectors are best for your pay packet?

Tags: finance, retail, public sector, salaries

How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
Telltale ways of spotting the danger signs with BPO suppliers

Tags: gartner, bpo, offshoring, outsourcing

Nokia buys social network for travellers
Dopplr purchase making inroads into online services

Tags: social network, dopplr, nokia

Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
3D's where it's at, says chip giant

Tags: network, intel, tv

Toptable books in new CTO
Former Guardian IT director will support expansion plans...

Tags: restaurant, software, mobile, online

Bottom falls out of online pants market but e-tail hits £3.8bn
Consumers clicking to buy new gadgets, trinkets, lotions and potions - but shying away from knickers and booze...

Tags: online shopping, e-retail

Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
Deal will see users vote on their favourite ads

Tags: advertising, facebook, nielsen

Former eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
Will California be sold on Meg Whitman?

Tags: california, schwarzenegger, ebay

A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
Whether you like it or not...

Tags: total recall, microsoft, e-memory, digital

Microsoft files lawsuits in malicious-ad crackdown
Seeking to stop "malvertising" with court action

Tags: microsoft

Google's DoubleClick revamp wants ads to say it in pictures
Search giant going after display-ad market

Tags: ads, doubleclick, google

Exclusive: BBC CIO swaps Auntie for consultancy
Beeb's CTO has taken the tech reins...

Tags: it, cto, cio, bbc

Google grabs ReCaptcha for security and book-scanning
Are you human, or are you danger?

Tags: recaptcha, books, google

Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
The rise of scareware

Tags: ads, malware, hackers

Bupa in rude health with new CIO
FT tech chief joins healthcare company

Tags: specsavers, healthcare, bupa, cio

How much will you be earning in 10 years' time?
Your future salary revealed

Tags: activetechpro, it management, wages, salaries

Google: Fast Flip to let publishers in on the ad action?
Google experiments with mimicking old school papers...

Tags: news, fast flip, google

Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
TJX fraudster forfeits $2.7m

Tags: fraud, hacker, id

How the fastest-growing companies see their CIOs differently
From seniority to keeping the lights on

Tags: innovation, cio, strategy

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Petra Papinniemi
Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
No wonder no one's buying...

Matthew Cushen
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Markets are not always what they seem

Tim Ferguson
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Q&A: Erik Huggers, director, BBC's Future, Media and Technology

Kit Burden
Legal Eye: Tech could brighten retailers' gloom
Regulation and recession loom

Matthew Cushen
Retailers: Look to emerging markets
Comment: Massive opportunities if you get the IT right

Julian Goldsmith
How Zavvi lost its Virginity
IT director Tony Johnson on the retailer's changing web strategy

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