Customers want local data centres after The Snowden revelations. Peter Judge thinks a new site might be just what Scotland needs
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Brazil ‘Internet Constitution’ Guarantees Privacy And Net Neutrality
Brazil passes legislation designed to protect web users ahead of global confernence on the future of Internet governance in the country
Netflix Says Comcast Time Warner Cable Merger Harms Net Neutrality
Netflix mulls price increase: its revenue and subscribers are increasing US ISPs are charging it for bandwidth
Microsoft To Spend $1bn On Iowa Data Centre
Microsoft is reportedly the company behind a massive data centre project in Iowa, joining the company's nearby 'Project Mountain' cloud facility
Oracle Introduces Cloud Workload Appliance
Oracle has launched its Virtual Compute Appliance, intended to work with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and the 12C database
Turkey Twitter Accounts Shut After Court Rulings
Accounts that leaked videos related to a corruption scandal in Turkey appear to have been blocked
AMD Plans ARM Server Chip Launch Late This Year
AMD has begun sampling its first ARM-based Opteron chip, key to its 'ambidextrous computing' strategy
Google Lambasted For Building ‘Digital Superstate’
A German media boss accuses Google of building a digital superstate and operating a global network monopoly
Microsoft Partners University For Data Centre Energy Efficiency
Microsoft teams up with Texan university to explore green ways to meet data centre energy needs
AMD Q1 Benefits From Graphics And Game Consoles
AMD's profitable run comes to an end, but the chipmaker still grew thanks to strong game console sales
IT Life: I’ve Been Doing Big Data For Ten Years!
Tendü Yogurtcu was working on Big Data before you heard of it. She likes open source and rates imagination over knowledge
Easter Eggs: Quiz Of The Week
Your favourite sites and software contain hidden treats. Which Easter Eggs do you know about?
Amazon Germany Threatened With More Strike Action
German staff at the online retail giant Amazon are to strike again over a long-running pay dispute
IBM Q1 Disappoints With Ongoing Hardware Decline
IBM's first quarter results make for grim reading as it reveals the lowest quarterly revenue in five years
HP’s Mayer Touts Open NFV Approach
The head of the NFV unit touts HP's open approach as a key advantage over rivals like Cisco
AMD Shows Off x86 APU Server Running Fedora Linux
AMD demonstrates its upcoming next-generation Opteron X APU server running Fedora Linux
Scotland’s Biggest Data Centre Will Be The UK’s First On Fully Renewable Power
The Queensway plant in Glenrothes hopes to serve government IT using 9MW of biomass-powered electricity
Two-Phase Liquid Cooling Bubbles Up
The boiling coolant in SGI's ICE X supercomputer is a sign to Peter Judge that liquid cooling is still evolving
GCHQ Names Robert Hannigan As New Boss
A Foreign Office Mandarin has been named as the new chief of Britain's eavesdropping service, GCHQ
Smartphone Manufacturers And US Operators Agree To Anti-Theft ‘Kill-Switch’
US operators relent and agree to basic anti-theft kill-switch for smartphones sold in the country
Avere: SSD Plus Cloud Storage Beats Local Drives
Independent SPEC tests back up the claim by solid state cloud storage maker that we can all chuck out our hard drives
Intel Benefits From XP Migration But Mobile Dips
The move from Windows XP helped the performance of Intel's PC group, but mobile chip sales decline
Microsoft Releases Office 365 Personal
Microsoft releases Office 365 Personal - a less expensive subscription aimed at individual users
Microsoft Previews Azure Cloud For Internet Of Things
Microsoft offers a new Azure service for the Internet of Things, regardless of underlying operating system
Yahoo’s Mayer Signals Growth Period After Modest Earnings
The pressure on Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer eases somewhat after modest earnings and growth
Why Did The IBM VP Board HP’s Moonshot?
Susan Blocher was marketing IBM's PureSystems, till she decided to jump to HP's Moonshot programme. What was the attraction?
SoftLayer Cloud Customers Get IBM Disaster-Recovery Services
Following its acquisition by IBM last year, SoftLayer is now integrating its parent company's security and disaster-recovery offerings
Big Data: Marching Toward A Knowledge-Driven Society
Praveen Mandal from SGI explains the steps we will need to take to exploit the potential of Big Data and the Internet of Things
IT Life: Agile And The Raspberry Pi
Barrie Hadfield likes agile development, human rights and the Raspberry Pi
Microsoft Azure Gains EU Privacy Approval
The Microsoft Azure platform becomes the first solution to meet the EU's stringent privacy requirements