2012

Foxconn Closes Factory After Riot

Foxconn stops production at a factory in China, after a fight broke out among 2,000 workers

Globalfoundries Advances 14nm Process Launch

AMD spin-off Globalfoundries is to challenge Intel with a 14 nanometre manufacturing process that will feature 3D transistors

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Networks

Can Latin America Be Telefónica’s Saviour?

SPAIN: Times are tough for Telefónica in Europe. Will shifting the emphasis to Latin America and the online world help?

Cloud

Gartner Raises Forecast For Public Cloud Services

The market for subscription web services is now expected to grow 19.6 percent this year to $109bn worldwide, with business processes a key market, according to Gartner

Security

Microsoft Patches Browser Hole

Microsoft has released a fix for an Internet Explorer security vulnerability that is being actively exploited by attackers

Workspace

Sean Maloney To Leave Intel After 30 Years

Maloney, who joined Intel in 1982, was key in the launches of Centrino in 2003 and Ultrabooks last year

Mac

Apple Accused Of Stealing iOS 6 Clock Design From Swiss Railways

SBB confirms that it is in negotiations with Apple over the traditional clock design

Cloud

Alibaba To Press On With Aliyun Development

Chinese Android rival gets a $200 million investment and its own business unit

Joaquin Almunia EC Competition Commissioner

Marketing

EU Warns Of Google Antitrust Fine

Make your search engine fair or face the consequences, says EU competition commissioner

Collaboration Suites

US Court Will Not Challenge Facebook Privacy Settlement

US appeals court rejected the claims that £5.8m settlement favours Facebook and lawyers

Mac

iPhone 5 Launch In London: Gallery

TechWeekEurope reports from the queues in front of Apple’s flagship store

Mobility

BlackBerry Outage Affects Vodafone Customers

Vodafone customers suffer new BlackBerry outage, but other UK networks appear unaffected

Cloud

Facebook Data Centre Engineer Develops Troubleshooting Tool

A Facebook engineer has built a heatmap monitoring tool to help troubleshoot data centre infrastructure

Marketing

Microsoft Wins Third Motorola Patent Victory In Germany

Microsoft could enforce German ban if Motorola doesn't agree to a patent licensing deal

Mobility

IDC Raises Tablet Forecast As Sales Surge

More bad news for PC makers after IDC substantially upped its sales forecast for tablet devices

Software

Oracle Readies New Database Amid Mixed Financials

Oracle is preparing to unveil its new database product, after it recorded a rise in profits on the back of a sales dip

Cloud

Cisco Abandons ADC Market As Competition Bites

Cisco is halting development of its ACE application delivery controller because of intense competition

Mobility

Low Cost Airline Readies Free In-Flight Wi-Fi

An American airline is reportedly about to launch in-flight Wi-Fi, free-of-charge for its passengers

Workspace

IT Life: We All Live On A Nuclear Submarine

Neil Thomson is currently the CTO of Microgen, but he was once an academic and worked on control systems for nuclear submarines

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Cloud

Quiz Of The Week: So You Think You Know YouTube?

Test your knowledge of the world's favourite video platform

Cloud

Dreamforce 2012: JP Rangaswami – I Hope Salesforce Stays A Start Up Forever

Salesforce is still a start-up and should remain so, chief scientist JP Rangaswami tells TechWeekEurope

How much do you know about YouTube?

Cloud

Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com UK Data Centre In Doubt For 2012

Salesforce.com tells TechWeekEurope no date has been set and it is unsure whether the data centre will materialise this year

Cloud

Dreamforce 2012: Is Benioff Right To Follow Facebook In All-Social Strategy?

Analysis: Benioff tells TechWeekEurope he loves Facebook but is he right in borrowing from a firm that has had a difficult year after its troubled IPO?