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Yahoo Says Bing Will Quickly Lose Its Bang
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has knocked Bing while also suggesting that a search partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft could save her company around £366m
Freescale Targets Chips At Netbooks
Freescale Semiconductor expects its chips to be in netbooks — or “smartbooks,” as it calls them — shipping later this year
Cloud Key To Branch Office Sustainability
Eventually branch offices will be served by a cloud computing environment, but that probably won't start coming until 2010, Forrester said
Open Source SugarCRM Goes Mobile
SugarCRM, which produces an open-source customer relationship management software platform, added platform improvements and boosted mobile features
Microsoft: Windows 2008 RC2 Will Improve Virtualisation
Microsoft is betting that Windows 7 and Windows 2008 RC2 server will be the substantial hits it needs to reverse its fortunes in a slumping economy
Sony Ericsson Satio Has “Half The iPhone’s Carbon Footprint”
Green consumers may want to know - but Sony Ericsson isn't planning to market the Satio as a green phone
Sony Ericsson Launches Two Green Phones
Most of the carbon reduction comes from not shipping phones with a manual
How Do Phones Go Green?
You can improve the manufacture of phones - and then there's the problems of chargers and recycling
HP Puts Wired And Wireless In The Wall
New ProCurve device does all your networking from inside a wall socket
Dell Uses More Renewable Energy
The manufacturer has made progress on green power, but the green movement may hurt it in in future - as users hang onto kit for longer
Digital Minister Tom Watson To Stand Down
Tom Watson, the man credited with being the UK government's first blogger and encouraging use of open source is leaving the government
Nokia Ships N97, With Ovi App Store
The N97 mobile computer comes with high expectations - and a price tag to match
McNealy And Ellison Share Stage At Java One
Ellison said the new Oracle will consider building Java-powered netbooks and phones
IBM Awarded For AIDS Work
IBM has won accolades for new mathematical prediction models to help determine the best drug combinations for any given HIV genetic variant
Seinfeld Rumoured To Host Palm Pre Party
The hope is that the Palm Pre smartphone will be as much fun as the event which will also benefit US combat veterans
Microsoft Sets Ship Date For Windows 7
Rumors abound that Windows 7 will also be ported onto mininotebooks, aka netbooks
CA Expands Cloud Computing Capabilities
The Cassatt deal will add to CA's Lean IT initiative and give it more expertise in data center infrastructure management and automation
XP Mode Could Make Windows 7 A Must-Have
Windows XP mode will be a major selling point for Windows 7- and it's the single feature that will make most companies jump at the chance to have Windows 7, says Don Reisinger.
Dell, HP And Sun Get Behind AMD’s Istanbul Opterons
AMD's Istanbul gets encouraging nods from all the right people
New OpenSolaris: Faster And Better
Sun's new OpenSolaris 2009.06 is faster - and has better networking thanks to Project Crossbow
EC: Time For Europe To Share Open Source Secrets
The European Commission wants more government departments to share open source project code and learnings
EMC Outbids NetApp For Data Domain
NetApp was ready to pay dearly for Data Domain - but EMC just pushed the price up
Government Open Source: Doomed Without Political Will
Government IT departments can't get open source intalled without political backing, according to a senior figure in the iconic Munich open source migration
Microsoft Bing Goes Live Early
Microsoft hopes that Bing will allow it to claim more market share in the competitive search-engine arena, which is dominated by Google
Global Chip Sales Down 25 Percent
The latest numbers from the Semiconductor Industry Association show that worldwide chip sales fell 25 percent from April 2008 to April 2009
Psion And Intel Settle Over Netbook Name
The fight centered on whether a company could own the right to the term “netbook.”
Hackers Compromise 40,000 Web Sites
Security researchers at Websense say the tactics are reminiscent of the notorious RBN group
Google To Knock Heads With Amazon Over eBooks
Analysts have noted that the eReader space will only become more crowded as more companies try to capitalise on the trend
One In Five Businesses Break The Data Protection Act
And BSI has a new standard out that might help everyone pull their socks up