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The beta of Ubuntu 9.10, otherwise known as Karmic Koala, contains the expected core open-source updates, but includes a number of important enhancements to make it even more attractive as the Linux distro of choice on the desktop
Many of the cyberthreats your business faces are invisible. Learn how to shine a light on these threats and discover how to take action to protect your business
PC energy saving company branches out into servers and makes non-productive ones drowsy
Avaya has launched its virtualised unified communications solution Aura, and is touting a 75 percent reduction in hardware, power and cooling.
IBM's effort to challenge its biggest rival on the database front with pureScale has not gone unnoticed in the Oracle camp, after one of its executives used the OpenWorld conference to call IBM's software 'proprietary technology'
An attempt to prevent media discussion of waste-dumping in Cote d'Ivoire by Trafigura was broken by a mass Twitter campaign
Business secretary Mandelson disses cappucino-drinking creatives, but is criticised for not pushing fibre harder at London conference
Mobile phones should emerge first thanks to continuing demand from emerging economies such as China
The switch-maker says that it has added another range of power-saving switches to its product line-up
CFO Patrick Pichette, during the recent Q3 2009 Google earnings call, reported that "YouTube will be very profitable in the not-too-distant future."
At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Oracle co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Cratz focused on highlighting Oracle's strategy of delivering a integrated application stack
HP is extending its support for Oracle applications with a series of new provisioning templates for BladeSystem Matrix users
Google is expected to beat consensus estimates when it announces third-quarter financial results on 15 Oct.
Apple's iPhone offers the greatest degree of customer satisfaction, beating out even the BlackBerry in rankings by enterprise and consumer customers, reports J.D. Powers
The hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter is undergoing a number of big changes. But is the world, already struggling to come to terms with Twitter and its impact, ready for what will effectively become Twitter 2.0?
A Microsoft subsidiary apparently lost Sidekick users' cloud data. That's not good when the next versions of Office and Windows Mobile are so heavily dependent on cloud data storage, says Peter Judge
Owners of T-Mobile Sidekick have been warned they will "almost certainly" have lost their personal data following a server failure at Microsoft, causing acute embarrassment for Redmond with its smart-phone and cloud ambitions
A British firm is touting a new new range of green desktops which it calls the most energy efficient PCs on the planet
Just as Oracle's OpenWorld 2009 convention starts, IBM looked to take the wind out of Larry Ellison's sails after developing new software designed to compete against Oracle's Real Application Clusters technology
Usage of websites such as Facebook and Twitter is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate, not just amongst the young, but now more and more elderly folk are jumping aboard the social networking bandwagon
Rentokil's adoption of cloud-based email is significant, because it shows that organisations have to treat their members like consumers, says Peter Judge.
Rentokil to put 35,000 users on Google Apps cloud email in offices and washrooms, by the end of 2010
Although endorsed by law enforcement, the scheme contains numerous references to shredder make Fellowes
For IT managers who must pay attention to both virtual and physical resources, the Cisco UCS system is well worth considering
If CIOs can't save the planet, no one can, says a UK green government champion tells eWEEK
NASA slams two probes into the moon, striking the lunar surface at more than 5,000 miles per hour. The space agency calls the probe a success but is still puzzled over what happened to the expected 6-mile-high debris plume
Apple released a new update for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 3.1.2, to correct a small number of bugs that had been plaguing users, including the device's occasional inability to awaken from sleep mode
Users will have access to a free, stripped down version of the productivity suite, Office Starter 2010, with the option to upgrade to the full version of Office 2010 with the purchase of a single-license card
The two companies kicked off their first joint Oracle OpenWorld conference by announcing an intriguing new flash-based storage system and re-identifying "The Giant" -- as Oracle founder Larry Ellison referred to IBM -- as its key marke ...
Rugged-computer-maker Getac will soon offer iPhone-like multitouch technology, which will work even while wearing gloves.
The island country of Mauritius is using sea water cooling in its bid to become a major outsourced data-centre player