The open source community has gained its first glimpse of 'privacy-conscious' Facebook rival Diaspora's source code
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2010
British Gas Steams Ahead With Energy Metering
British Gas is making a big push to fulfil its commitment to put smart energy meters into a million homes by the end of this year
Zendesk Hosted Customer Help Desk: Review
Zendesk is a hosted customer help desk service that is easy to deploy while remaining quite amenable to customisation
Virtualisation Security Is Prime Concern For IT
A survey of UK IT managers has shown that virtualisation and data security are their key concerns for the next year
Greenpeace Spoof Slates Facebook’s ‘Dirty Data’
A Greenpeace animated video called "The So Coal Network" is taking on the Facebook movie, "The Social Network"
Project Canvas Launched As YouView
Canvas, the BBC-backed free-to-air digital TV box will arrive next year under the name YouView
Nokia World Saves The Best Till Last
At Nokia World its CEO-elect put in an appearance while elsewhere a key designer of PalmOS was recruited.
World Wide Web Creator Calls For Free Data
In a wide-ranging keynote, World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee talks the net, technology trends and bridging the worldwide digital divide
Microsoft Says HTML5 Will Boost IE9 Speed
Partners showed speed improvements at the launch of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser
Ericsson Shows PC And Tablet Broadband Modules
Ericsson has launched a 21Mbps mobile broadband module for notebooks and netbooks and demonstrated a 7.2Mbps module for tablets at IDF
Who Knew? Analytics Will Save The World…
Analytics used to be the subject too boring to contemplate, says Peter Judge. Now it's the star of the environmental tech show
Wi-Fi Interoperability Should Never Be Assumed
As 802.11n makes its way onto new smartphones and tablets, wireless administrators should stay skeptical about interoperability, warns Andrew Garcia
EMC’s New Services For Private Cloud Deployments
EMC is offering improved efficiency and reduced costs when creating Oracle-based virtualised cloud environments to deploy business applications
Intel And AMD Cross Swords Over Integrated Graphics
Upcoming processors were featured by Intel and AMD at the Intel Developer Forum to display CPUs with GPUs on the same die
IBM Analyses Risk With OpenPages Acquisition
IBM plans to add risk-management and compliance software to its business analytics portfolio with the acquisition of OpenPages
Google Engineer Fired Over Privacy Violations
Google has fired one of its engineers for violating its privacy policies following media reports
Dell Shows Off Atom-based Tablet
Dell has offered a sneak peek of an upcoming mobile device that can be run as a tablet or as a netbook at the IDF show
Phone Apps Apathy Among Users, Survey Finds
A new survey from Pew Research Center has suggested that apps are not as popular among mobile phone users as first throught
Insurance Hike May Follow Facebook Burglaries
Price comparison site Confused.com is living up to its name as it says social media users will have to pay more for home insurance
HTC Unveils Desire HD and Desire Z For Business
HTC has a new handset for multimedia consumers and one for the enterprise - and a fresh interface
Cisco Adds New Services To Its Data Centre Portfolio
Cisco has revamped its Data Centre 3.0 strategy by adding extensions for its unified computing products and a set of Unified Network Services
Avaya Touts Video Tablet And ‘Flare Experience’
Avaya has added a brand new tablet, native SIP and some funky names to its videoconferencing offerings
Amsterdam Doubles Bandwidth With Brocade 100Gb Switch
Brocade's rumoured 100Gbps Ethernet switch has emerged at Amsterdam's AMS-IX Internet exchange
Intel Workstation Clusters For Low-Cost HPC Power
Intel claims that businesses can access HPC-levels of compute power using its cube-clustered computing concept.
Twitter Undergoes First Major Overhaul
Twitter is having a major overhaul of its site, bringing multi-media content to its growing user base
On-Demand Workload Provisioning With Cloud Manager
Novell's hypervisor-agnostic, cloud management product offers a built-in connector to the company’s Sentinel security platform.
Third Nokia Resignation As Chairman Plans To Go
Jorma Ollila, Nokia's chairman, said he will step down in 2012 to allow an even greater transformation for the phone maker as it struggles to stay on top.
IBM Analytics Software To Save Endangered Zebras
Analytical software from IBM is being used to help save endangered zebras in Africa, thanks to work with conservation charity Marwell Wildlife
Consumer Reports Reiterates iPhone 4 Warning
The second review of Apple's iPhone 4 by Consumer Reports claims that Apple's new antenna-bumper policy is less than consumer-friendly
First Virtualised Database Platform From Startup Delphix
Creating Delphix virtual copies of databases to run concurrently on disk offers new outlook for database administrators.