Oracle Calls IBM PureScale ‘Proprietary’

IBM's effort to challenge its biggest rival on the database front with pureScale has not gone unnoticed in the Oracle…

15 years ago

Twitter And Wikipedia Smash Pollution Gagging Order

An attempt to prevent media discussion of waste-dumping in Cote d'Ivoire by Trafigura was broken by a mass Twitter campaign

15 years ago

Mandelson Promises £80 Million – For Innovation, Not Cappucino

Business secretary Mandelson disses cappucino-drinking creatives, but is criticised for not pushing fibre harder at London conference

15 years ago

Tech Sector Won’t Begin True Recovery Till 2010

Mobile phones should emerge first thanks to continuing demand from emerging economies such as China

15 years ago

D-Link Expands Energy Saving Switch Range

The switch-maker says that it has added another range of power-saving switches to its product line-up

15 years ago

YouTube Serves Billion Views A Day

CFO Patrick Pichette, during the recent Q3 2009 Google earnings call, reported that "YouTube will be very profitable in the…

15 years ago

Oracle Discusses Importance Of Integration

At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Oracle co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Cratz focused on highlighting Oracle's strategy of delivering a integrated…

15 years ago

HP Enters The BladeSystem Matrix

HP is extending its support for Oracle applications with a series of new provisioning templates for BladeSystem Matrix users

15 years ago

Online Ads Will Boost Google’s Q3

Google is expected to beat consensus estimates when it announces third-quarter financial results on 15 Oct.

15 years ago

Survey Shows Free Phone Customers Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Apple's iPhone offers the greatest degree of customer satisfaction, beating out even the BlackBerry in rankings by enterprise and consumer…

15 years ago

Twitter 2.0: Is the World Ready?

The hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter is undergoing a number of big changes. But is the world, already struggling to…

15 years ago

If Microsoft Screwed Up Sidekick, What Hope for Office 2010?

A Microsoft subsidiary apparently lost Sidekick users' cloud data. That's not good when the next versions of Office and Windows…

15 years ago

Microsoft Backup Failure Caused Huge Sidekick Data Loss

Owners of T-Mobile Sidekick have been warned they will "almost certainly" have lost their personal data following a server failure…

15 years ago

VeryPC Talks Sustainable With Broadleaf Range

A British firm is touting a new new range of green desktops which it calls the most energy efficient PCs…

15 years ago

IBM Ups DB2 Performance For Power Users

Just as Oracle's OpenWorld 2009 convention starts, IBM looked to take the wind out of Larry Ellison's sails after developing…

15 years ago

Facebook And Twitter Uptake Continues To Soar

Usage of websites such as Facebook and Twitter is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate, not just amongst the…

15 years ago

Consumers Are Leading Companies to The Cloud

Rentokil's adoption of cloud-based email is significant, because it shows that organisations have to treat their members like consumers, says…

15 years ago

Rentokil Becomes Google’s Biggest Cloud Customer

Rentokil to put 35,000 users on Google Apps cloud email in offices and washrooms, by the end of 2010

15 years ago

“National Identity Fraud Prevention Week” Used To Sell Shredders

Although endorsed by law enforcement, the scheme contains numerous references to shredder make Fellowes

15 years ago

Cisco Unified Computing System Review

For IT managers who must pay attention to both virtual and physical resources, the Cisco UCS system is well worth…

15 years ago

IT Must Take Climate Lead, Say EC and UK Government

If CIOs can't save the planet, no one can, says a UK green government champion tells eWEEK

15 years ago

NASA Investigating Moon Bomb Data

NASA slams two probes into the moon, striking the lunar surface at more than 5,000 miles per hour. The space…

15 years ago

Apple Wakes Beautiful Sleeping iPhones From Coma

Apple released a new update for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 3.1.2, to correct a small number of bugs that…

15 years ago

Ad-Supported Office 2010 Bundled In New PCs

Users will have access to a free, stripped down version of the productivity suite, Office Starter 2010, with the option…

15 years ago

Sun Team Take Stage At Oracle Conference

The two companies kicked off their first joint Oracle OpenWorld conference by announcing an intriguing new flash-based storage system and…

15 years ago

Rugged Notebook Allows For Multi-touch With Gloves

Rugged-computer-maker Getac will soon offer iPhone-like multitouch technology, which will work even while wearing gloves.

15 years ago

Windows 7 Direct Access Review – VPN for the 21st Century?

It's billed as a seamless connection to the corporate network from anywhere - but those not running Windows 7 Enterprise…

15 years ago

Mauritius’ Sea Water Cooled Data Centre: Not Just a Drop in the Ocean?

The island country of Mauritius is using sea water cooling in its bid to become a major outsourced data-centre player

15 years ago

Netbooks Blamed For Falling Prices in Notebook Market

Whilst every segment of the notebook industry shrunk during the second quarter, the one bright spot has been netbooks. But…

15 years ago

Cisco Readies Rack-mounted Servers For UCS

Cisco's entry to the blade server market back in March raised a few eyebrows from traditional server providers, but the…

15 years ago