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US firms rush to adopt BYOD
A Cisco study shows the vast majority of US firms are now adopting "bring your own device" (BYOD) schemes.

ICO may give organisations years to comply with EU cookie law
A senior policy manager at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said that it may give organisations with complex website environments years to comply with new EU cookie laws, even though the new regulation came into effect in the UK almost twelve months ago.

Inside Apple's secret plan to kill the cash register
Apple's plans for a Bluetooth 4.0-based iWallet could be the beginning of the end for the venerable cash register.

Social Networking Security in the Workplace
At any given moment today, on-the-clock employees are updating their social media status, reading feeds and networking on business media sites. Moments can stretch to minutes: A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that 60 percent of social media users spend at least 30 minutes a day on these sites while at work.

Twitter jumps on Do Not Track bandwagon
Twitter has announced support for "Do Not Track," immediately implementing it to halt online tracking of users who trigger a setting in their browsers.

iPhone 5 rumors for the week ending May 18
Perhaps the Next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honor of the new spate of rumors that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.

Academics propose groundbreaking uses for Watson
Three winners of an academic competition at the University of Rochester to create the most innovative and useful applications for IBM's Watson cognitive computing systems were announced yesterday by Big Blue.

Microsoft reprises free Xbox back-to-school PC promo
Microsoft will repeat last year's back-to-school promotion, kicking off the deal Sunday with an offer of a free Xbox 360 game console to eligible U.S. students who buy a new Windows 7 PC.

Android in enterprises 'severely limited' by weak management support from Google
Adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in large businesses has been "severely limited" because of the complexities of managing the various Android models and versions, market research firm Gartner said in an evaluation of 20 mobile device management software vendors.

Cisco's wireless unit shifts emphasis to "mobility"
Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit doesn't actually talk so much about wireless networking these days. Increasingly, its message aimed at IT groups is about the broader concept of "mobility."

UK defence industry needs cybersecurity 'kitemarks', says Labour shadow minister
The UK Government should consider using kitemarks awarded to defence industry companies that meet high cybersecurity standards as a part of its procurement process, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy has said.

BT to roll out fibre to 90% of rural Rutland
Rutland County Council has selected BT to rollout fibre to 90 percent of residents by the end of 2013 in a project that is set to cost #163;3 million.

BlackBerry 7 gets security approval from government
CESG, the UK government's information assurance body, has approved Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry 7 OS for government use.

Air NZ completes migration
IBM back in airline's good books

Fry Up: Spiderbots tamed!
Waiting for Spotify

With Verizon pushing more into data caps, Sprint touts unlimited option
If you're a Verizon customer upset that your next smartphone contract won't include unlimited data, Sprint would like to remind you that you have an alternative.

IBM NZ boosts returns to parent company, paying $20m to US
Big blue claims to have outperformed the market

Facebook sets IPO share price at $38
Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning (US time)

J*******k: Dirty word disappears from Apple iTunes store
Apple appears to be taking its disapproval of jailbreaking one step further by censoring at least some references to "jailbreak" in its US iTunes store

AT amp;T lights up 4G LTE in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Naples
AT amp;T has extended its high-speed network implementations to 38 markets

Chorus extends introductory fibre trial for RSPs until December
Question over who will pay for "non-standard" installations yet to be determined

Open-source messaging at (nearly) the speed of light
Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

Govt denies plans to merge telco commissioner's office
Commerce minister Craig Foss denies suggestions by Labour that there are plans to do away with the office of the telco commissioner

App review: LinkedIn for iPad
Sim Ahmed finds that the social networking's new app makes good use of the iPad's screen real estate

New mobile DRAM standard for 4G networks offers 50% performance boost
The specification for next-generation mobile DRAM was published, offering smartphone, tablet and ultra-thin notebook makers a 50% increase in memory performance.

Comcast ditches flat 250GB bandwidth cap for tiered service approach
Comcast is trying out more flexible ways to implement its bandwidth caps by experimenting with tiered service options.

Doctors warned not to use social media with patients
Doctors are being cautioned by hospitals they work with to avoid interacting with patients on social media, and that they reject any overtures by patients to interact on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Social media bring business, but add security quagmire
Social media -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth -- has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.

UK man jailed for Facebook hack
A man from West Sussex has been sent to jail for 12 months after hacking into a private Facebook account.

Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....
SSD maker RunCore's InVincible SSD can wipe your data using one of two methods: overwriting the entire disk with meaningless code or frying it with voltage.