HP has now been looking for a new CEO for seven and a half weeks, but there is still no word on any progress by the search committee
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2010
Xerox Looks To Print Cost Reduction With New Solutions
Xerox is touting the ability of its new upcoming applications and services to help organisations reduce their printing costs
Internet Society Calls For Action On IPv6 Upgrade
Content providers and ISPs must start using IPv6, or lose money and risking security in the future
Dell Offers Self-Service Cloud Building
After virtualising data centres, Dell is now aiming at the "people part" in its VIS announcement
BT Dragged Into Porn Data Breach At Law Firm
UK telecoms giant BT is now caught in the fallout from the data breach at a "copyright bully" law firm ACS
Energy Now Fastest Rising Cost For Data Centres
Energy related costs now make up 12 percent of data centre expenditure, Gartner has found, and things will get worse
Capgemini Offers Modular Green Data Centres
Capgemini has magically turned its Merlin green data centre technology into a marketable package
IBM’s Blade Networks Buy Boosts Cloud Efforts
IBM is buying Blade Network Technologies to bolster its cloud enterprise networking capabilities and better compete with the likes of HP and Cisco
Zeus Gang Blags £6m From UK Bank Accounts
The Zeus Trojan is rapidly becoming public enemy number one as London police arrest online banking hackers
Lessons Learnt From 802.11n Wi-Fi Deployments
Wireless network vendor Xirrus provides helpful guidelines on how to optimise 802.11n networks in the enterprise
Virgin Raises Two Fingers To Rival Providers
Big Red Internet, Virgin Media's new enterprise brand, raises a big red salute in Canary Wharf
Could BlackBerry Get Sidelined In The Enterprise?
RIM's BlackBerry could be relegated to a niche player unless it opens up its walled garden to other platforms, says Andria Garcia
Schmidt Outlines Google’s Search For Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous search is Google's next step in bringing information to the users, instead of making them seek it, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference
Microsoft Rushes Out ASP.NET Patch To Block Attacks
Microsoft released an emergency, out-of-band patch to address an exploited security issue with ASP.NET.
Red Hat Announces Fedora 14 Beta Download
The Fedora 14 Beta has been released with a slightly shorter features list. Work will focus on bug fixing and stability issues before the official release in November
Zeus Malware Targets European Mobile Banking
European Symbian and BlackBerry devices used for online banking are being targeted in an attempt to beat multifactor authentication security.
Amazon US Rumours Of A Tablet And Android App Store
Amazon US is launching a tablet computer based on Google's Android platform and an application store
Virgin Launches Big Red Internet Business Package
Fill your boots, says Virgin, as 1Gbps and 100Mbps fibre links tumble in price
Developers Believe In Android Future Over iOS, Study Finds
Android seems to be winning the mindshare battle for developers, after the majority of them said Android's long-term outlook was brighter than iOS
Google Voice App for iPhone ‘Just Weeks Away’
Google's official Voice app will be released in Apple's iPhone App Store soon according to reports
Law Firm Faces Hefty Fine Over Porn Breach
The Information Commissioner has confirmed that it is investigating a major data breach at a UK law firm
Lenovo Targets SMBs With ‘Smallest’ ThinkPad Edge Notebook
Lenovo is looking to the small business community with the launch of its new 11-inch ThinkPad Edge notebook
Europe Shows Growth In R&D Investment
Europe invested €3.8 billion in research and development and generated 54,000 highly qualified R&D jobs in 2009
OpenOffice.org Community Declares Independence
Members behind the Openoffice.org community have broken from Oracle under the name LibreOffice
RIM Launches Social Developer Tools For BlackBerry
RIM's BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform lets developers integrate social features such as chat into their third-party applications
EC Drops Apple Anti-Trust Probe
The European Commission has dropped its investigation into Apple's iPhone policies, after Apple relaxed its restrictions
Shetlands Get Funding For Fibre Optic Network
Residents of the Shetland Islands will be able to access high-speed broadband, following a cash injection from the European Regional Development Fund
Codeplex Foundation Becomes OuterCurve
Open source body, the Codeplex Foundation has become Outercurve to stress its independence from Microsoft
LinkedIn Users Targeted By Spam Attack
The attack on the LinkedIn social network follows attacks on Twitter, Facebook and others
Hitachi, HP Launch Converged Storage Platform
The new arrays from HP and Hitachi scale up to manage as many as 5 million objects and 255 petabytes of data under one management server