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Microsoft Announces Biogas-Powered Green “Data Plants”
Data centres built on rotting landfill sites could be self-sufficient in power, says Microsoft
New G-Cloud Leader Warns Government Unprepared For Cloud
Incoming G-Cloud leader has warned the government isn’t ready to make big bets on cloud
Facebook IPO On 17 May?
Rumour says Facebook will float on May 17
Joyent Brings Its Public Cloud To Europe
Joyent comes to Europe, providing IT teams with another IaaS option
Larry Page Tells Court Google Didn’t Need Java Licence
CEO Larry Page told the court he didn't believe Google needed Java licence as it only used freely available elements
Microsoft Offers Peek At Windows Intune Future
Microsoft has offered a glimpse at the future version of the Windows Intune cloud-based management solution
Samsung And Apple To Meet In Court For Settlement Talks
Tim Cook and Gee-Sung Choi will meet in San Francisco to discuss a possible settlement agreement
Volta To Build Reliable Data Centre In The Heart Of London
Old Reuters building will become a state-of-the-art co-location facility
BT Ads Banned After Virgin Complaint
BT has been banned from showing adverts that promise 'unbeatable' Infinity broadband speeds
Sergey Brin: Apple, Facebook Comments ‘Distorted’
Sergey Brin says the media didn't give a wholly accurate representation of his thoughts
Do O2’s Telecommute Savings Add Up?
O2 saved 12 tonnes of CO2 emissions by closing its office for a day. Peter Judge asks, is that a big deal?
Yahoo To Close Down Around 50 Products
CEO Scott Thompson continues streamlining at troubled Internet giant
Twitter Announces Inventor-Friendly Patent Agreement
Agreement will give innovators greater control over use of patents in litigation
O2 Touts 150Mbps London 4G Trial Success
O2 is trumping the 'success' of its 4G trial in London, which delivered download speeds of up to 150Mbps
Larry Ellison Slams Google For Not Licensing Java
Oracle boss Larry Ellison has criticised Google for not licensing Java in Day 2 of the courtroom showdown
First Intel-Powered Smartphone Expected This Week
This week will reportedly see the launch of the first smartphones running Intel’s Atom “Medfield” platform
Gmail Downtime Hits 5 Million Users
Google's Gmail experienced an hour long outage yesterday, but the service retains a 99 percent uptime rating
Windows Server 8 Officially Tagged As Windows Server 2012
Microsoft has officially named the next version of Windows server - now to be known as Windows Server 2012
How Facebook’s Paedophile Blocking Can Backfire
Facebook's blocking system is flawed, but linguistic and behavioural software can fix it, argues Tom Brewster
Check Point Launches Crowdsourcing Threat Cloud
ThreatCloud looks to get users sharing information for the good of each other
Toshiba Set To Acquire IBM’s POS Business For $850m
Deal would see Toshiba Tec become 'world's foremost retail point-of-sale systems company'
Dell Brings In CloudStack Partners
Canonical, enStratus and Mirantis are to provide products and services around Dell's OpenStack and Hadoop efforts
Microsoft Wants Data Centres To Power Themselves
“Data Plants” of the future could combine data centres and sustainable energy production
BRICS To Cable The Southern Hemisphere
A 34,000 km submarine cable network linking five developing countries? Easy, says Andrew Mthembu of i3Africa
Google Drive 5GB Dropbox Rival To Land Next Week?
Apple Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android versions on the way for Google's Dropbox rival, say sources
The Commoditisation Of Hacktivist Attacks
Off-the shelf software for DDoS attacks has brought the means of disruption to smaller pressure groups, says Eric Doyle
New Submarine Fibre Optic Cable To Link BRICS Countries
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will get superfast connection to each other and the United States
Rackspace Launches OpenStack Cloud Services
Rackspace is initiating a major OpenStack push, building on the project it started in 2010
US Adults Opt Out Of Internet
One in five US adults do not use the Internet, many saying they don't go online because the technology is not relevant to them