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TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2015
Google Joins OpenStack In Massive Cloud War Offensive
Google pledges support for OpenStack Foundation, vows to help push container technology whilst scooping up precious enterprise cloud customers
AMD Suffers Major Revenue Fall As PC Market Struggles
Revenues down 35 percent as laptop and PC sales hit, but games console arm provides some reward
Oracle Reveals Plans For Indian Data Centres
Oracle chases Microsoft in establishing data centre presence in India to meet growth in demand
IT Life: From Video Games To Human Data
Datasift CEO and co-founder Nick Halstead talks about his career in IT and video games
United Airlines Rewards Hackers With Million Airmiles
Two hackers awarded one million free airmiles each as part of innovative bug bounty scheme
Sky Broadband Customers Hit By Speculative Piracy Letters
Are you a Sky broadband customer? Did you illegally download The Company You Keep? TCYK is relying on you to admit it
Marshall Rocks Out With New London Smartphone
Audio-focused Android device sports high-quality music features and free Marshall earphones
TfL Releases Guidance On Apple Pay
Make sure you use the same device and don’t run out of juice, TfL says
EE: Government’s 4G Signal-Blocking Trees Must Not Be Repeated
EE says trees it was obligated to plant to obscure masts are now affecting signal and wants future legislation to avoid such mistakes ahead of 5G
Government Voucher Scheme To Help SMEs Defeat Cyber Attacks
Small and medium-sized businesses to get government help to bolster their cyber defences
Ofcom Happy With Mobile Competition… For Now
Ofcom says four operator model is sustainable but is looking at how mergers and convergence will change market
Microsoft Hit With Office 365 Cloud Outage
Customers in North America were unable to access Exchange Online Wednesday evening, with some reports suggesting outage went global
EBay Enterprise Sell-Off Deal Close
Another private equity group reportedly close to buying eBay Enterprise unit, as PayPal spinoff nears completion
Huawei Turns Its Sights To India
Chinese mobile titan signs deal to start making and selling smartphones on the subcontinent
Inmarsat Gets European Space Agency Backing For Mobile Satellite Services
ESA funding for Inmarsat will go on study looking at next generation of mobile satellite technologies
Apple Fans Beware – Hackers Want To Hold Your iPhone To Ransom
iPhone and iPad users hit by trick that freezes Safari until a ransom is paid
Ofcom Considers BT Openreach Split And Market Deregulation
Phase 1 of Ofcom's major communications market review confirms all options are on the table, including the retention of the current Openreach model
Quiz Of The Week: Data Centres
Show us how much you know about data centres with our weekly quiz
EU Hits Qualcomm With Two Antitrust Investigations
US chipmaker accused of ‘predatory pricing’ amid claims of abusing semiconductor market dominance
Intel Switches Out For Data Centre Success In Waning PC Market
But pushes back 10nm "Cannonlake" chip release to 2017, potentially damaging data centre progress
Seven Top Tips For Starting Your Own Business
Klarna CEO Niklas Adalberth shares his tops tips on starting a business and how to make it a success.
How ‘Democratic’ Open Source Can Aid UK Tech Growth
BLOG: Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, explains how governments and the UK tech industry can learn from the democratic ethos of open source and startups
Microsoft Security Essentials Support For Windows XP Ends
Another reason to migrate from Windows XP, as Microsoft Security Essentials support officially ends
Google Ramps Up Its Mobile Shopping Experience
‘Purchases on Google’ will let you buy directly through Google Search ads
Microsoft Dishes Final Windows Server 2003 Updates On Patch Tuesday
Final Windows Server 2003 updates are released as Micrososft patches its own Hacking Team vulnerability
Malwarebytes Rolls Out Anti-Malware Tool For Macs
New product will help combat Mac malware as part of growing Apple security concerns
Huawei’s New Nexus Device Could Feature Some Epic Power
Leaked specifications suggest Google’s next Nexus will pack some serious grunt
Vodafone Details Government Requests For Communications Data
Vodafone received legal requests fro 28 countries during 2014 and predicts role could increase as market converges
Workday Launches Venture Capital Project To Nurture Machine Learning Startups
Workday Ventures will work with promising, early stage startups to fuel the "next generation" of enterprise applications