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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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... [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
Orange to exclusively sell Toshiba's 1GHz phone
News The TG01 Windows Mobile handset will be on sale by the weekend, Orange has said [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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... [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 [09 Jul 2009]
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 Jul 2009]
TalkTalk drops Phorm
News The UK internet service provider will not use behavioural advertising technology from Phorm, the companies announced on Wednesday [09 Jul 2009]
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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
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
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
Leader The Chrome OS is perfectly pitched at Microsoft's weaknesses. Addressing those will be Redmond's biggest challenge [08 Jul 2009]
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]
