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The UK has structurally flawed data protection and privacy laws which allowed secret Internet snooping trials to take place. Now the European Union is stepping in to try and force the UK Government to take action.

European industrialist, AkzoNobel, has signed a five-year, multimillion euro contract extension with France Telecom’s Orange business services for the supply of ICT services in 55 countries, including Australia and New Zealand.

IT management software vendor CA is using Verizon Business to build a private IP network for more than 12,000 staff across 35 countries, including Australia.

As the economic crisis continues, reducing the cost of IT operations is a key consideration for many European organisations, with decision makers actively addressing the issue and looking for ways to improve cost effectiveness.

Cyber risks and actual attacks have grown significantly in the past two years and are expected to continue to grow in the next two years, with many organisations experiencing tangible losses as a result of the attacks.

Macquarie Telecom has called on the Australian Government to ensure its data centre strategy, planned in response to the Gershon data centre recommendations, includes clear, environmental standards for individual data centres to be measured against.

The number of people using mobile banking and related services worldwide is forecast to grow from 20 million users in 2008 to a whopping 913 million by 2014.

The heady rates of growth in outsourced and in-house software and systems testing services that characterised the market over the past four years are over, but there’s still growth, albeit at a much slower rate.

The current economic situation has proved that the mobile phone market generally is not immune to recession but, in Western Europe, at least the rapidly expanding consumer market for the latest smartphones grew by nearly 26% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to the corresponding period of 2007, according to IDC’s latest European Mobile Phone Tracker report.