Cisco: Smart Grids Can Improve The World

Cisco claims smart grids can help improve the societal and economic problems around the world, but some experts have raised…

15 years ago

Not Many Bugs Infesting Amazon.com Researchers Find

Amazon.com has fewer bugs on its Website than Wal-Mart or Target, according to a study by software-testing company uTest, which…

15 years ago

Most Phishing Scams Fail But Enough Succeed

New research from Trusteer shows that while the majority of phishing attacks are unsuccessful, those that slip past security defenses…

15 years ago

Google Reveals Details Of Mobile Goggles, What’s Nearby?

Real-time search ruled the roost at Google's search event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California

15 years ago

VMWare’s Dominance Of Virtualisation Under Threat

While VMware is still the dominant virtualisation technology in the data centre, IT professionals are increasingly willing to consider alternatives

15 years ago

MIT Wins ARPANet Anniversary Competition

Using an inverse pyramid approach, a team from MIT captures the $40,000 (£24,400) first prize to locate 10 large, red…

15 years ago

Handset Makers Targeted With Commercial Android Platform

A commercial version of Android has been released to help industry players build Android-based devices and test them for market…

15 years ago

Staff Increasingly Use Own Laptops At Work

More and more staff are bringing their own personal laptops into work, according to a study from analyst house Gartner

15 years ago

HP Teams Up With SAP To Ensure Business Uptime

HP has launched two new services designed to help businesses maximise the uptime of their critical IT systems

15 years ago

Bluetooth Group Slates Dongle Use

A “Ditch the Dongle” campaign has begun in order to convince users to use their Bluetooth-enabled handsets to connect to…

15 years ago

EC Has ‘Incorrect’ Facts Concerning Oracle-Sun Case

An open source legal expert has informed the European Commission that its concerns about Oracle's takeover of Sun are based…

15 years ago

Review: Google Chrome OS Developer Edition

The developer edition of Google Chrome OS is almost identical to the Google Chrome web browser, providing an intriguing look…

15 years ago

Government Pushes Online Public Services Despite Net Cut-Off Plan

The government is pushing ahead with plans to make the Internet a key way to access public services while also…

15 years ago

EU Pushes On With Single European Patent Plan

One common European patent court could help cut £260m of costs from European companies according to the EU

15 years ago

Russia Accused Of Climategate Hack

As the climate change summit opens, a UN scientist has accused Russia of releasing the emails which sparked a scientific…

15 years ago

Microsoft Ties-Up Search Deal With Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo have finalised a deal in which Microsoft Bing will power Yahoo search

15 years ago

Google Risks Criticism With Personalised Search Expansion

Google risked drawing the ire of privacy advocates on 4 December by making its personalised search results available to all…

15 years ago

AppJet Open Sources EtherPad Following Google Purchase

AppJet has said it will open source the code to EtherPad and the AppJet Web Framework in an effort to…

15 years ago

Apple Super-Sizes Its Big Mac Desktop

Apple has quietly rolled out super-sized options for its Mac Pro desktop, including a 3.33GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon 3500…

15 years ago

Intel Delaying Larrabee Gaming Chip

Intel officials say they are delaying the “Larrabee” graphics processor that the company had hoped would compete with AMD and…

15 years ago

Oracle Denies Report Of MySQL Compromise

Larry Ellison has dismissed a report suggesting he would compromise over MySQL in order to allay European competition concerns

15 years ago

Adobe Warns Of Zero-Day Vulnerability

Adobe is investigating reports of a new security vulnerability with Illustrator, after attack code started circulating on the Internet

15 years ago

Bing Downtime Blamed On System Error

There were red faces at Microsoft after its search engine, Bing, suffered an embarrassing 30 minute outage on Thursday

15 years ago

Microsoft ‘Has Acknowledged The Enterprise Role Of Linux’

Three years on from Microsoft's deal with Novell, the real importance is coming through, says Novell's OpenSUSE community manager, Joe…

15 years ago

Man Gunned Down During Laptop Robbery

A man has been killed after being shot during a robbery in Manchester for the laptop and cash he was…

15 years ago

Motorola Droid Nears UK Release

Motorola's Droid handset, or Milestone for us Europeans, is to be launched on Monday, but so far no major UK…

15 years ago

IBM Takes University Data Centre Off The Grid

IBM has taken Syracuse University's data centre off the electric grid, thanks to tri-generation, which burns gas to provide heating,…

15 years ago

Microsoft-Backed Green Search Engine Attacks Google

Ecosia is being endorsed by the WWF and billed as an "eco-friendly" search engine but it is also based on…

15 years ago

Skype For SIP Beta Opens Up For Public Use

Businesses now have the opportunity to integrate Skype's VoIP services into their corporate telephone systems, after Skype for SIP opened…

15 years ago

Sustainable Use Of Storage Hitting Sales

Gartner reports that worldwide external disk storage revenue totaled more than $3.9 billion (£2.34bn) in the third quarter of 2009,…

15 years ago