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Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding

Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding

News Small European businesses need Europe-hosted cloud computing services within five years, according to telecoms and media commissioner Viviane Reding [16:09 BST]

First open-source Symbian software released

First open-source Symbian software released

News The launch of the OS Security Package is the first step in the Symbian Foundation's plan to eventually open source its entire Symbian mobile operating system [15:36 BST]


Met will not reopen phone hack investigation

Blog The Metropolitan Police will not reopen its investigation into alleged phone hacking by the News of the World. In a press statement delivered outside Scotland Yard on Thursday, Assistant... [18:31 BST]

BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns

News The second stage of BT's £1.5bn rollout of high-speed fibre broadband will kick off in 69 towns and cities around the UK [18:20 BST]

Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive

News Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory have created a new hurdle for the adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive [16:58 BST]

Orange to exclusively sell Toshiba's 1GHz phone

News The TG01 Windows Mobile handset will be on sale by the weekend, Orange has said [16:27 BST]

Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualisation

News Citrix's Xen technology will be combined with Fujitsu's servers and workplace virtualisation portfolio to provide an integrated bundle for setting up VDIs [16:21 BST]

Apple patches two critical Safari bugs

News The update fixes two bugs that put Mac and Windows systems at risk of cross-site scripting attacks or of being taken over [15:08 BST]

XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest

News It was meant to set standards, but from its beginning, XHTML 2 was due a slow demise [13:23 BST]

Google names Chrome OS hardware partners

News The search and advertising giant has named the companies it will work with to develop hardware to support its Chrome operating system [12:49 BST]

How Google will continue its watch over you

Analysis The company's all-or-nothing approach of tracking user activity means its new OS could leave your privacy compromised [11:22 BST]

EMC wins Data Domain storage acquisition battle

Blog After a good old fashioned bidding battle, storage company EMC has won control of storage company Data Domain over rival suitor storage company NetApp. DataDomain is best known for its... [10:53 BST]

Microsoft pilot offers schools 'fairer' software deal

News Under the Subscription Enrolment Schools Pilot, schools will not be required to pay licence fees for systems not being used for educational needs [10:23 BST]

Sinofsky named as Windows division president

Sinofsky named as Windows division president

News The former Office executive has been leading engineering efforts in the post-Vista era and will now assume business responsibility as well [10:09 BST]

Google reveals winners of Native Client bug contest

News A researcher who won a bug-finding contest says Google Native Client technology is architecturally sound [09:22 BST]

TalkTalk drops Phorm

News The UK internet service provider will not use behavioural advertising technology from Phorm, the companies announced on Wednesday [09:00 BST]

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Feds take DDoS in their stride

Blog The US Department of Homeland Security has said that a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks began on US government networks on 4 July. However, Amy Kudwa, deputy press secretary for... [08 Jul 2009]

Gartner finds lukewarm response to SaaS

News The research firm's findings contradict the general impression that SaaS could help alleviate costs in the economic downturn [08 Jul 2009]

Fujitsu introduces entry-level Primergy server

Fujitsu introduces entry-level Primergy server

News The Primergy TX100 S1 is aimed at small businesses that have not yet upgraded from external hard drives to servers for their storage [08 Jul 2009]

Mozilla calls on coders to build web-tool index

Mozilla calls on coders to build web-tool index

News Mozilla Labs is asking programmers to help build an Open Web Tools Directory, in a bid create a comprehensive index of all the open-source developer tools available [08 Jul 2009]

IBM plans to end final-salary pensions

News The company is to launch a consultation with staff about stopping its final-salary pension scheme, while the plans have been criticised by the Unite union [08 Jul 2009]

Android on PC gets new input

News A new alpha version of LiveAndroid has been released, adding mouse-controlled cursor and keyboard functionality to the PC port of Google's mobile operating system [08 Jul 2009]

Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle

Analysis Helen Wang, the researcher behind Microsoft's Gazelle browser, talks to Ina Fried about making the browser more like an operating system [08 Jul 2009]

Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows

Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows

Leader The Chrome OS is perfectly pitched at Microsoft's weaknesses. Addressing those will be Redmond's biggest challenge [08 Jul 2009]

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EMC bundles IT tools for virtualisation

News The company has integrated its existing and acquired IT management technologies into a package, named Ionix, that it says will speed the move to virtualisation in the datacentre [08 Jul 2009]

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Businesses need open access to Europe's fibre

Businesses need open access to Europe's fibre

Nick White European firms will pay a high price if the EU mishandles access to next-generation fibre networks, says Nick White more

Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?

Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?

Jason Hiner Several vendors are racing to build datacentres that will enable them to offer more internet-based services to consumers and enterprises over the next 10 years more

Ten time-saving apps for KDE 4 productivity

Ten time-saving apps for KDE 4 productivity

Jack Wallen KDE 4 has brought some big changes to the desktop, including these 10 labour-saving widgets, says Jack Wallen more

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Logitech Bluetooth Mouse M555b

Last week I wrote about The RIght Mouse for the Job, and mentioned that Logitech had a new Bluetooth mouse which was not yet available in Switzerland. Sure enough, a couple of days later the...

J.A. Watson

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Tweetdeck demonstrates User Disrespect 2.0

I use Tweetdeck as my desktop Twitter client. It's a pretty smart example of what can be done with the Twitter APIs, and I generally find it very usable and useful. However, something happened an...

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Ubuntu Netbook Remix "Acid Test" - Wrap-Up

Time to wrap up one more open item - my informal "Acid Test" of UNR. The size of my test group has doubled (from one to two), and the results have been consistent. The conclusion is, it's good,...

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Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows

Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows

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Digital Britain: More fudge than foresight

Digital Britain: More fudge than foresight

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Why Bing is not the Wave of the future

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