Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
News Organisations should be wary of vendor lock-in, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency [20 Nov 2009]
Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims
News ISPs are fiercely contesting government claims that they support the Digital Economy Bill's anti-copyright-infringement measures, while Telnic has warned of official threats to Icann's authority [20 Nov 2009]
Large Hadron Collider up and running again
Blog The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a... [21 Nov 2009]
Climate research centre compromised
Blog One of the UK's leading climate change research centres has had a security breach. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suffered a compromise of information, a UEA... [20 Nov 2009]
eBay finalises $2.75bn sale of Skype
News The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders [20 Nov 2009]
Dell sees earnings drop 54 percent
News Declining shipments had a negative effect on the company's third-quarter earnings, while the company also reported that revenue was down 15 percent compared with last year [20 Nov 2009]
Digital Economy Bill gets tough on file-sharers
News The government has ruled out jail terms for copyright infringement, but the Digital Economy Bill opens the way for disconnecting repeat infringers [20 Nov 2009]
Cisco targets security professionals with iPhone app
News The company's new App Store entry features customised alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device [20 Nov 2009]
Adobe's Acrobat.com adds organiser, mobile app
News The company is improving its Acrobat service with a new organiser and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go [20 Nov 2009]
Ballmer touts speed of Windows 7 sales
News At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, the CEO said the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows [20 Nov 2009]
Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue of $79m
News The revenue growth rate tapered off to five percent from 12 percent the previous year, while a search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money [20 Nov 2009]
Google shows Chrome OS, promises 2010 launch
News Google's long-awaited Chrome OS aims at security, speed and simplicity in netbook cloud computing [19 Nov 2009]
Intel Labs Europe takes on large-scale computing
News Intel Labs Europe has formed an alliance with three French institutions to investigate the challenges of large-scale computing [19 Nov 2009]
Reports: Mandelson to create file-sharing offence
Blog The government intends to create a new offence of downloading copyrighted material without consent, according to reports that refer to a letter sent by business secretary Lord Mandelson to the... [19 Nov 2009]
HP engineers vote to strike
News Members of the Unite union at HP will take industrial action over the potential loss of pension benefits and pay reductions [19 Nov 2009]
Union asks Mandelson to stop Ericsson closure
News Unite calls on the government to intervene in Ericsson's closure of a Coventry R&D plant and probe foreign tax credits [19 Nov 2009]
UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests
News Two people were arrested in Manchester earlier this month on suspicion of distributing the Zeus banking Trojan [19 Nov 2009]
IE9, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 in the PDC spotlight
News Day two of Microsoft's PDC saw clients take centre stage, with browsers, rich internet applications and productivity tools in the spotlight [19 Nov 2009]
Sony Ericsson releases cross-platform app tool
News WebSDK is a toolkit that allows developers to create software for Sony Ericsson's Android and Symbian-based handsets [19 Nov 2009]
Ion-toting Eee 1201N to hit UK in January
Blog Asus has confirmed its long-rumoured Eee PC 1201N, the first in the company's line of netbooks to use Nvidia's Ion graphics platform. The 1201N will also be one of the first netbooks to include... [19 Nov 2009]
Microsoft, Acer team up on Windows 7 laptop
News The software giant has formed an alliance with Acer that will see it deliver Windows 7 laptops to rival Apple's proposed tablet [19 Nov 2009]
YouTube UK launches full-length TV shows
Blog YouTube, Google's main online video repository, has made full-length episodes of shows such as The IT Crowd and Who's Line Is It Anyway? available to UK viewers. YouTube's Shows section was... [19 Nov 2009]
HP contractors at DWP vote on strike action
News HP contractors have become increasingly angry at the government department after the announcement of further job cuts and pay freezes [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
News The cloud-computing specialist has announced its Salesforce Chatter service to build social-networking services into its customers' business operations starting in 2010 [19 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
News The third beta imposes a new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it, while a feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7 [19 Nov 2009]
