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Highlights include an exploration of proposed changes to Government data security measures following two recent reports criticising HM Revenue and Customs for its poor handling of data, which resulted in the loss of two computer discs containing 25-million child; and the trend among multinational companies towards outsourcing to single voice and data services suppliers.

Avivah Litan, information and security analyst at research firm Gartner, talks to Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford about the effectiveness of chip and pin bank card technology in combating fraud and the risks that may result from the introduction of faster payments. Litan’s area of expertise includes financial fraud, authentication, identity theft, and fraud detection and prevention applications.

The internet is running out of addresses. As it stands today the internet can support four billion addresses and Geoff Huston, chief scientist at APNIC estimates that there won't be any left by 2011.

In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Geoff Huston about how an open market for IPv4 addresses will emerge.

Internet meltdown could follow if you don't make the switch to IPv6, says Cliff Saran in discussion with Warwick Ashford in this week's UK information technology news round-up. Also: is the iPhone 3G enterprise ready?

Computer Sciences Corporation CTO financial services EMEA, Tom Rogerson, talks to Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford about the consumerisation of IT. Rogerson discusses how businesses are responding to the trend to mitigate the threats and exploit the opportunities it present.

Warwick Ashford charts the most popular IT news stories on Computer Weekly.com in the past week and discusses the new look Computer Weekly magazine, which will debut on Tuesday 17 June 2008, with editor Brian McKenna.

Includes a report from Warwick Ashford that the number of computing students in UK universities and colleges has dropped almost 50% since 2001 to below 1996 levels, confirming that IT departments are on the verge of a new skills shortage unless some action is taken soon.

Accenture CIO Frank Modruson talks to Computer Weekly's Bill Goodwin about Accenture's moves to exploit social networking technology within the business to maximise employees' collaborative potential.

Accenture has recently launched an internal social networking platform specifically aimed at aiding internal collaboration, called Accenture Collaboration 2.0, including, among other features, document preview search, a 'people profiles' tool and a fledgling internal company wiki. He explains how such web 2.0 tools can be used to help speed knowledge transfer within a business, and for other benefits.

Stories this week include: reactions to Fujitsu’s withdrawal from the NHS National Programme for Information Technology; Tesco’s plans to centralise IT applications across its stores worldwide, with a single Cable & Wireless network; and the installation of analytics software to report on performance of individual Boots stores following the Boots merger with Alliance Unichem.

How can we be sure that what we read, hear or see on the Internet is real? The Internet has changed the way we work and the way we spend our leisure time. We no longer need to queue in shops. Products can be bought in an online catalogue; dream holiday can be booked from a travel web site. Its supporters say the Internet can cater for almost every human need. We can even find love on the Internet.

In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Lee Siegel, author of Against the Machine, who believes, there are many things wrong with the way the Internet operates today.