Today in tech: Clause 17 canned, security professionals get pay rises

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Clause 17 is no more

The Digital Economy Bill's controversial Clause 17 has been abandoned by the House of Lords. However, a new rule has been entered that does allow the Government to block sites they believe to be hosted content that's being shared illegally. IT PRO

Security pros are getting more cash

Despite economic woes, a large number of security professionals still got a pay rise last year, according to a study by InfoSec and ISC2. Security Park

Mobile web still growing

Just when you think the web can't get any bigger it goes and surprises us all and grows even more. As more sophisticated devices come onto the market, our appetite for surfing the web, checking email on the move and using Twitter et al will lead us to spend even more time on the move and online. New Media Age

Orange and MeeGo team up

The Nokia/Intel union announced back at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, is starting to become more of a reality as mobile players like Orange start to announce device support. The first handsets running MeeGoo from Orange will arrive later this year. IntoMobile

Is the Nexus One worth a prison sentence?

One tech reporter is so enamoured with the Google Nexus One that he's trying to encourage his colleague (the one the review unit belongs to) to go to prison so he can keep it for longer! Times Online

Maggie Holland

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.