Salesforce.com demos Service Cloud 2 
Video Chief executive Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2 [09:24 GMT]
Microsoft to let multiple pupils work from single PC
News The software maker is working on new option that will let will let several students work independently off a single PC, each with their own screen, mouse and keyboard [13 Nov 2009]
- Re Here we Go Again - Moley
- 20 years behind the times? - Yellowcave
Apple changes its UK terms of sale
News The manufacturer is now explicitly liable for faulty or misdescribed goods, after concerns raised by the Office of Fair Trading prompted a revision of Apple's terms and conditions [12:32 GMT]
Rickroll virus author hired by iPhone app company
News The creator of the 'ikee' worm, which replaced the wallpaper of jailbroken iPhones with a picture of Rick Astley, has been hired by Australian app developers Mogeneration [08:53 GMT]
Near-final Thunderbird 3 is released
News The first release candidate of Mozilla Messaging's email software arrives several days later than expected [26 Nov 2009]
Warning over cloud computing's environmental costs
News A report by university IT organisation Jisc says technologies used to connect to the cloud are highly energy inefficient [26 Nov 2009]
- You must be joking... - 1000270662
Developers invited into LinkedIn
News The networking site for professionals has opened its platform to developers so they can integrate it into business applications and web sites [24 Nov 2009]
Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google
News Rupert Murdoch's media empire is talking with the tech giant about having its websites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report [23 Nov 2009]
Chrome, Android likely to merge
News Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that the company's two operating-system projects, which could compete with each other in netbooks, may become one OS over time [23 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]
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]
- Client sorted, what about the network? - manek
- You can't blame Google for the network - 88072
- indeed - Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
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]
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]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
News Public availability of the test version was announced at PDC in Los Angeles. New features include a mechanism for connecting Outlook to social networks [19 Nov 2009]
Microsoft open-sources .NET for embedded devices
News The software giant has released most of its .NET Micro Framework product, used in devices ranging from sat-nav units to remote controls, under the Apache 2.0 licence [17 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta made available to developers
News The updated test version is now available to members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programmes [17 Nov 2009]
Adobe offers new Flash, AIR betas
News Flash Player 10.1 gets a hardware video boost, and AIR 2 gets tighter integration with desktop computing resources such as USB drives and multitouch interfaces [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft introduces Excel for supercomputers
News At the SC09 supercomputing conference, Microsoft released a test version of its Excel spreadsheet redesigned to run on powerful clusters of servers [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 tool used GPL code
News The software maker has said that a tool intended to allow netbooks to more easily move to the operating system was based in part, and unintentionally, on open-source code [16 Nov 2009]
IBM unveils private business analytics cloud
News The company is launching Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte of data [16 Nov 2009]
Cloud helps Skype to 'business grade', says exec
News The cloud-computing revolution and consumers driving IT adoption provide an opportunity for VoIP player to shake off non-enterprise grade label, says a Skype Asia-Pacific exec [13 Nov 2009]
Bing integrates Wolfram Alpha results
News Microsoft's search engine will use Wolfram Alpha computation engine APIs for results in areas including nutrition, health and advanced mathematics [12 Nov 2009]
Microsoft investigates Windows 7 vulnerability
News The software giant is looking into claims of a possible exploit in its new operating system that could allow a denial-of-service attack [12 Nov 2009]
Microsoft halts Windows 7 tool after GPL code claims
News A tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on netbooks has been pulled after questions were raised about whether the software improperly uses open-source code [11 Nov 2009]
