The Register – Vince Cable: Feel my mighty SME love

New Coalition government biznovation minister Vince Cable has set out his stall in a speech given yesterday at a business school in London. He pledged to cut the red tape stifling small businesses, and said he would compel banks to lend to SMEs.

SC Magazine - IT security professionals hack their own networks for penetration testing

Half of IT security professionals have admitted that they hack their own networks, with 73 per cent doing so to test the strength of their own network defences.

Computing.co.uk – Broadband customers buy on price, switch on speed

The main reason why consumers switch broadband supplier is because of disappointment with connectivity speed, but when they choose a new provider, they do so based on price, a recent survey has found.

The Daily Telegraph – Microsoft is ‘number five’ in the mobile market

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, has admitted that the technology giant is losing the battle in the smartphone space with its Windows Phone offering, saying its currently ranked fifth in the market.

IT Pro – BT gets go-ahead for watered down broadband unbundling

The European Commission has said it agrees with regulator Ofcom that BT should be able to offer only virtual unbundling for its fibre broadband networks for the time being.

ComputerWorldUK – PC is not dead, device form is changing

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may believe that the personal computer – Mac and Windows PCs – will diminish in importance in the near future, but Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer sees thing differently. Ballmer, during an interview at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference, told the Journal’s Walt Mossberg that PCs will continue to evolve but will remain popular, even in a world where more and more people carry smartphones and tablet devices like the iPad.