Computing: Government aims to bolster UK’s cyber defences: The UK plan highlights the need for government, organisations across all sectors, international partners and the public to work together to meet the strategic objectives of reducing risk and exploiting opportunities by improving knowledge, capabilities and decision-making to secure the UK’s use of cyber space.

CWUK: IT value – we reap what we sow: How does your organisation define the value of IT? Many IT organisations have defined their value based on the ability to deal with complexity. Many times we pride ourselves on how much complexity we deal with.

Silicon: Apple, Nokia, RIM agree to one charger for all: Apple and other big phone makers have struck a deal with the European Commission to start selling phones with universal mobile phone chargers starting next year.

IT Pro: Oracle exec calls Amazon’s cloud model ‘unprofitable’: Cloud computing models from companies like Amazon and Google are “unprofitable,” according to a senior executive from Oracle.

IT Pro: Private clouds could save businesses money and time, according to Canonical: Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu open source project, yesterday released its new professional services that will let enterprises build private clouds behind their firewalls.

BBC: Mixed results for green IT goals: The majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in the government’s Greening ICT Strategy.