The Home Office has extended its contract with CGI for the Police National Database (PND) for a further three years. The original PND contract was awarded to Logica in 2009 for a seven-year term. CGI...
Airline company Emirates has signed a 10-year IT services agreement with IBM worth about $300m. IBM said that infrastructure will be delivered as a service to the Dubai-based airline to improve the efficiency...
American telecoms juggernaut Verizon will reportedly offer about $3bn for Yahoo's core internet business in a second round of bidding. The Wall Street Journal quoted "people familiar with the matter"...
Today marks the anniversary of the tragic death of Alan Turing, who died aged just 41 in 1954. Turing, as is now firmly established, was one of the geniuses of Bletchley Park who helped crack the Enigma...
Microsoft has announced general availability of Apache Spark support for the Azure HDInsight cloud-hosted service for big data analytics, bringing the advantages of the Spark platform for in-memory processing...
Privacy campaigners have criticised plans for a "strategic data-sharing initiative" targeting people in Greater Manchester that will create a database of citizen information from all public-sector databases...
A Russian social media site called VK.com has had 100 million records stolen as hackers continue to target big sites. LinkedIn and Myspace also saw huge amounts of data from hacks dumped online. The...
Most smartphones are much the same these days, and even sub-£200 devices offer high-quality specs and svelte design. It was not always so. V3 has put together a little round-up of five of the worst...
Lenovo has unveiled several new and updated offerings aimed at the enterprise and data centre markets, including upgraded servers based on Intel's latest Xeon chips, new software-defined storage (SDS)...
The Queen is turning 90. Well, she already celebrated her proper birthday back in April but her 'official' birthday is this Saturday, 11 June. Confused? Best not to worry about these matters, let the nobles...