Google adds global address list to Apps suite
News The company has also made it possible for enterprise and education users of Google Apps to share templates for documents, spreadsheets and presentations internally [03 Jul 2009]
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern [03 Jul 2009]
Nasa hacker petition presented to Number 10
Blog Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US. Styler, and Sharp, who is McKinnon's... [03 Jul 2009]
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers [03 Jul 2009]
FCO drops Ocean telecoms network
News The FCO has withdrawn a tender, worth up to £2.5bn, for a next-generation telecoms network to replace the Government Secure Intranet and other services [03 Jul 2009]
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
Blog Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved, would... [03 Jul 2009]
US launches probe into Google Books settlement
News Investigators with the US Justice Department will investigate whether Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws [03 Jul 2009]
BA saves £2m as tech staff work for free
News British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has credited techies for being among the 7,000 of BA's 40,000 staff who helped the company save cash by cutting back on hours or pay [03 Jul 2009]
Apple readies patch for iPhone SMS flaw
News A vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the handset, turn on the microphone, or turn the phone into botnet zombie [03 Jul 2009]
Windows 7 may offer a 'Family Pack'
News Enthusiasts have spotted wording in a leaked test build of the operating system that suggests Microsoft may offer a three-PC deal with the new Windows [03 Jul 2009]
NoSQL and the monster mutation
Blog Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the... [03 Jul 2009]
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News Red Hat has released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualisation based on Qumranet's KVM [02 Jul 2009]
Orange launches managed videoconferencing
News Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks [02 Jul 2009]
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
News After months of work, the open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring [02 Jul 2009]
Surrey, London and Peking get a yuan for spintronics
Blog Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping... [02 Jul 2009]
Oracle delivers Fusion 11g updates
News Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions [02 Jul 2009]
Digital Britain phone levy not enough, says BT
News The government's proposed 50p charge on fixed lines will not be enough to extend next-generation broadband coverage across the whole UK, BT's strategy chief has said [02 Jul 2009]
Security talk pulled after ATM vendor complains
News Juniper Networks has cancelled a researcher's talk at the Black Hat and Defcon conferences following a complaint from a vendor [02 Jul 2009]
Windows 7 could be a touch too much
Analysis A lack of apps and users having to buy additional monitors to support the technology may hold back the rate of touchscreen take-up [02 Jul 2009]
Yahoo's Delicious is added to Chrome
News Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service [02 Jul 2009]
Services launched for Ubuntu-based clouds
News Canonical will provide services to support companies building 'private cloud' infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls [02 Jul 2009]
Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup
News The servers are intended for small to medium-sized businesses and are 'up to three times faster' than their predecessors, according to Lenovo [02 Jul 2009]
Government under fire over ID cards
Analysis The home secretary's announcement that carrying an ID card will never be compulsory for British citizens has prompted many to question its future [02 Jul 2009]
GPL loses ground in open-source development
News At the same time, Microsoft's open-source software licence, MS-PL, is gaining in popularity, according to a study by Black Duck [01 Jul 2009]
IBM offers AI help to mobile developers
News An EU-funded project uses brute force and intelligence to auto-optimise mobile software [01 Jul 2009]
