2012

ICANN Reassures Over Dot-Anything Delay

New domains on hold while ICANN sorts out the registration system

CIO

G-Cloud Boss Slams Unacceptable Government IT

The outgoing director of the G-Cloud framework has delivered a withering assessment of 'unacceptable' IT within government

Security

HP Warns Of Malware-Infected Flash Cards

HP says that some of its shipments of ProCurve 5400 zl switches contained infected flash cards

Cloud

EMC Announces VSPEX For Quick Fix Cloud Infrastructure

EMC hooks up with partners to offer a data centre package for companies who want to get to the cloud fast

Cloud

Google+ Revamp Aimed At Facebook

Google+ changes are introduced, but some question the 170 million users claim

Green-IT

British Gas Starts Major Smart Meter Roll-Out

Replacing smart meters with… smart meters?

Cloud

Intel Announces Atom-Based Centerton for Low-Energy Microservers

Atom-based system-on-chip uses only six watts, making it Intel's greenest processor yet

Cloud

Amazon Launches ‘Powerful’ CloudSearch

CloudSearch offers a managed search service that can scale well, just like other Amazon services

Mac

Flashback Slashed But Apple Faces Backlash

Apple is slow and misguided, but the number of Flashback bots is coming down, say security experts

Networks

ICANN’s Dot-Anything Deadline Due Today

Top-level Internet domain name applications close today

Cloud

Intel Predicts Arrival Of 75 New Ultrabook Designs

Intel executives have predicted that 75 new Ultrabook designs from different vendors are about to hit the market

Cloud

Citrix Extends Social Collaboration With Podio Purchase

Citrix is acquiring Danish company Podio in order to enhance its social collaboration cloud service for SMBs

Cloud

Oracle Launches New Xeon E5-based Server Lineup

Oracle has unveiled a new lineup of Sun rack and blade systems based on Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 chips

Projects

Java Reign Ends As Most Popular Programming Language

Java has dropped to second spot as the most popular programming language behind C, according to new stats

Data Storage

Western Digital Super Slim HDD Targets Ultrabooks

Western Digital is seeking to provide an alternative to SSDs with its new shock resistent Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive

Green-IT

DARPA Contest Seeks Robots Designed For Disaster Zones

US agency offers $2 million reward in robotics advancement program

Green-IT

Green Data Centres Could Run On Pig Manure

Google and Apple both look like using the same source to reduce their carbon emissions, says Peter Judge

Mobility

SAP Buys Syclo, The Mobile Enterprise Specialists

The acquisition should make BYOD with SAP relatively painless

Cloud

Cisco’s Chambers Identifies Huawei As Main Threat

Cisco boss John Chambers has identified Huawei as its main threat as it doesn’t always 'play by the rules'

Microsoft Tackles IE And Office Flaws

Microsoft has tackled security flaws in MS Office and Internet Explorer in its latest security patch

Mobility

Nokia Issues Profit Warning Amidst Marketing Criticism

Stephen Elop tries to smile as Nokia downgrades its devices and services profit outlook for the first quarter

mobile OS

Toshiba Announces A Massive 13-inch Tablet

Toshiba bets on a giant to get a piece of the tasty tablet pie

Cloud

IBM PureSystems Converge RISC and x86, Network And Storage

IBM's converged data centre entry attempts to package up expertise as well as hardware

Marketing

Aspire EMEA 2012 by LivePerson

For Aspire EMEA 2012, we’ve brought together some of the leading experts and innovators in the customer engagement industry, who’ll be sharing their ideas and experiences as well as highlighting the key trends in the market.

Marketing

MongoDB for Developers – Two-day Course

Brendan McAdams, creator of both Casbah, a Scala toolkit for MongoDB, and mongo-hadoop, presents this essential MongoDB workshop for developers.

Marketing

DeNormalised London

On 20th and 21st September 2012 the first DeNormalised NoSQL conference will be held at Skills Matter in London.

Marketing

Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford’s Advanced F# Programming course

Join me for Tomas Petricek, F# enthusiast and Phil Trelford, well-known Software Architect for their hands-on two day course where you will learn how to solve real-world .NET problems in F#.