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Google Shares Drop Despite Increased Q4 Revenues
Wall Street reacts as cost-per-click advertising revenues fall
Olympic Media Centre Could Become “Innovation City”
Infinity will turn Olympic press and broadcast centres into £500m technology and research centre if it wins bid
Venray Touts Combined CPU/DRAM Chip For Heavy-Duty Applications
A US company emerging from stealth mode says combining CPU cores and DRAM on a single piece of silicon brings benefits
Microsoft’s Business Software, Kinect And Xbox Helped Drive Last Quarter
Although Windows sales remained soft, Microsoft's quarter saw robust business software and entertainment product sales
IT Budgets Dip As Business Priorities Increase
Gartner has forecast a slight dip in IT budgets, despite the growing number of business priorities
Kodak Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Kodak has filed for chapeter 11 bankrupcy protection but vows to come out fighting in the end
World IPv6 Launch Sets 6 June As Target Date
Internet Society organised event sets out plans for IPv6
Online NoSQL Database Launched By Amazon Web Services As DynamoDB
DynamoDB, a cloud-based database, delivers fast and predictable performance with all the scalability you can ask for, claims AWS
Virgin Broadband Blacked Out By ‘Routing Issue’
Virgin Media's broadband services across the UK have been restored after customers experienced a blackout
Regional Broadband Scheme Faces Investigation
Taxpayers' money could be needed to prop up regional broadband infrastructure scheme, as local councils begin an investigation
TechWeek Europe Readers Are All-Rounders
Our latest poll reveals TechWeekEurope readers tend to have responsibility across the board, although all the different IT disciplines are covered
Symantec Adds Cloud-Based Archiving By Acquiring LiveOffice
Symantec's LiveOffice uses the SaaS-based CloudMerge platform to integrate email services with archiving in the cloud or on-site
Simplified Licensing Scheme Announced For Microsoft System Center 2012
Microsoft is looking to spur the adoption of its private cloud offerings with a simplified licensing plan for System Center 2012
Consumers Trade Privacy For Better Shopping Experience
Shoppers are willing to sacrifice their privacy in order to ensure a better shopping experience, an IBM survey has revealed
Amazon Touts Free Windows Server Processing For EC2 Cloud
Amazon is offering 750 hours of free Windows Server processing per month in its cloud service
TechWeekEurope Launches Events Channel
A new service on TechWeekEurope: a list of IT events
Google Apologises For Kenyan Startup Data Scraping
Google employee apologises on Google+ for scraping details of Kenyan businesses from Mocality
Wikipedia Blackout To Go Ahead Despite SOPA Pullout
Wikipedia and other high-profile websites will shut down for 24 hours in protest against 'devastating' anti-piracy bills, while Twitter's CEO has called the action 'foolish'
Everything Everywhere Could Unify Orange and T-Mobile Brands
Everything Everywhere is investigating the possibility of phasing out its existing brands
IBM Debuts Social Business Event
The two-day IBM Connect event focuses on how businesses can meld social media, the cloud and mobile technologies
HP Expands Macca’s Digital Archive
Paul McCartney's new interactive portal, orchestrated by HP, showcases a half-century of digitised assets
Chinese Web Users Pass 500m Mark
More and more Chinese people are logging onto the Web, after a 12 percent surge in those using the internet
US SOPA Bill Killed In Congress
The SOPA Anti-piracy bill has been scuttled, but the Senate's PIPA bill sails on
New Standard Aims For Service-Level Cloud Portability
OASIS' TOSCA standard, backed by Cisco, IBM, SAP and others, allows the creation of templates for deploying services on any compliant cloud
Microsoft Shares Dealt Blow By PC Sales Slump
Sales are up but profits are down, as Microsoft aims to diversify into phones and tablets
Google Dismisses Murdoch’s Piracy Allegation Tweets
Rupert Murdoch calls Google a piracy leader for returning results that might infringe copyright
ARM Boss Dismisses Intel Mobile Threat
The boss of ARM, Warren East, has dismissed the threat posed by Intel's move into the mobile chip market
Google Accused Of Scraping Kenyan Startup’s Database
Mocality says it used a sting to catch Google spreading lies and undermining its business
Barclays Confirms 422 British IT Jobs To Go In Restructuring
Barclays is to axe 422 IT positions in the UK, with a further 200 positions being lost overseas as well