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Romania Issues €100 Million To Microsoft Without Bids

Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists

16 years ago

IBM Offers Government Stimulus Kit On Credit

Why wait for government cash for green projects when you get the technology right now and pay later, says IBM

16 years ago

Yahoo Would Sell To Microsoft For “Big Money”

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has suggested that she would sell Yahoo's search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive…

16 years ago

Server Shipments Down 25 Percent Year on Year

The global server market saw revenue and shipment declines across all major segments during the first quarter as enterprises delayed…

16 years ago

Intel’s Nehalem EX Server Chip Spells Doom For RISC?

... and it's not great news for Itanium either, as Intel announces a monster Nehalem multiprocessor chip

16 years ago

IT Consultant Extends Green Olympics Contract

Atos Origin has made much of its commitment to provide sustainable IT for the Olympics - a contract it will…

16 years ago

NHS Takes Action Over Data Security

The information commissioner has criticised the NHS over its data protection efforts while some patients could choose to delete electronic…

16 years ago

Blades, Storage Arrays To Get Efficiency Rating

Now that the first-tier specification for energy-efficient enterprise servers is completed, the US EPA is turning its focus to larger…

16 years ago

Emulex Boss Rebuffs Broadcom Offer

Emulex president and chief executive Jim McCluney in a letter to stockholders calls Broadcom's offer inadequate

16 years ago

In The Euro Election, Vote For Free Software!

The open source movement wants to see government contracts open to proper competitive tendering. Let's see how that issue plays…

16 years ago

Carbon Reporting Model To Meet Future UK Laws

With the UK government about to impose mandatory carbon accounting, PwC has produced a reporting model which it says will…

16 years ago

Scotland Gets Europe’s Largest Wind Farm, and Smart Power Training

Engineers will take smart grids across Scotland thanks to a government backed Energy Academy

16 years ago

NHS Trust Leads Way With E-Patient Records Project

While the  £12.7 billion NHS upgrade scheme has yet to deliver,  one NHS Trust has gone ahead with its own…

16 years ago

IBM Solidly Behind SSD Servers

IBM is placing increased emphasis on the emerging solid-state server, storage, and software sector of the data centre

16 years ago

US Airforce Denies GPS Failure Reports

A US government report predicted that as old satellites begin to fail over the next few years, GPS coverage could…

16 years ago

Local Government Sets Green Computing Example

Local government is stealing a march on central government in its use of virtualisation to harness cost savings and power…

16 years ago

EC To Regulate State Aid For Next-Gen Broadband

Stimulus packages to build high-speed broadband must not fall foul of state aid rules, warned European commissioner Neelie Kroes

16 years ago

Storage Economics: When Data Meets Dough

If you think storage is cheap, you aren't doing your sums right. The big picture, with power, carbon, and legal…

16 years ago

Malware Testing Heads To The Cloud

The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization has adopted a set of best practices around testing cloud security offerings

16 years ago

Google Says No To Newspapers, Yes To Online News

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said while his company is not interested in buying physical newspapers it could put…

16 years ago

Google Polishes Chrome Browser

Google has high hopes that Chrome's unique features will make it a suitable competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer and other…

16 years ago

UK Government To Force IT Training At Suppliers

If you want government money, you'll have to show your IT  training plan, says skills secretary John Denham

16 years ago

Young People See Good Prospects In IT

IT is beginning to be accepted as a "career of choice" with good prospects by young people but the older…

16 years ago

Number 10 Dodges Phorm Investigation Calls

Despite threats of EC legal action and consumer complaints, the Prime Minister's Office has said Phorm is not its problem

16 years ago

Fault Tolerance (Re)Discovered

Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection…

16 years ago

Google Partners With US Utilities On PowerMeter

Google plans to expand the Google PowerMeter rollout later in 2009

16 years ago

Microsoft Previewing Kumo Search Engine

Microsoft, along with Yahoo, is in fierce competition with Google for market share in the U.S. core search arena

16 years ago

Intel And AMD Increase Core Count

Intel next week is expected to give details of its upcoming eight-core Nehalem EX processors, which will be aimed at…

16 years ago

Windows 7’s XP Mode Could Boost Linux and The Mac

Window 7's XP Mode will get users used to the idea of desktop virtualisation - and make it easier for…

16 years ago

Sustainable IT Holds Opportunities For The UK

Computing can affect the future of this planet, says the Cambridge professor of computing, Andy Hopper. And there are opportunities…

16 years ago