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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called himself "optimistic" about Microsoft's marketplace prospects over the next 12 months, but declined to give the audience at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting any specific numbers to back his publ ...
On its Website for IT professionals, Intel has introduced a calculator that customers can use to determine the performance and power efficiency of their servers
Cisco Systems is partnering with energy metering technology maker Landis+Gyr to create smart grid solutions that will benefit both the companies that generate and distribute energy and the people who consume it
Mozilla Firefox, the open-source challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, passed the 1-billion download mark on 31 July, with a Website and Twitter feed marking the occasion
Efficiency measures such as PUE have raised awareness of the need to curb data centre power, but they aren't intended to compare one site with another, a summit heard
The area where the German factory is located has already received around €40 million from Nokia and investment by the local authority, the organisations have claimed
The Nissan application will offer convenience and energy efficiency, allowing drivers to remotely monitor the battery's charge, as well as turn on the air conditioner before they get behind the wheel
The University of Southampton, which has research centres for such subjects as oceanography, medicine and the Internet, is buying a massive IBM iDataPlex supercomputer that will hold more than 8,000 quad-core Intel Xeon processors
CEO Steve Ballmer tells the audience at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting that the company is in a strong position to fend off competitors such as Apple and Google
Treasury committee asks hard questions about whether government efficiency claims are accurate and the methods used to calculate them
Twitter redesigns its home page, adding a box to enable easy access to its real-time search engine, along with hot topics
Hyper9 is rolling out the second version of its flagship Virtualization Optimisation Suite, which is designed to give businesses improved insight into their virtualised environments and better ways to manage their VMs
Vectorising the database unlocks ten-fold improvement for the open source database vendor Ingres
The IBM system will help track suspicious and unidentified aircraft in UK airspace however some critics have raised concerns about funding for UK defence technology research
Buying its data mining partner, IBM issues a challenge to its rivals Oracle, SAP and SAS to up their game
Ecology activists claim that IT giant Hewlett-Packard is doing an about-face on its public statements about eliminating key toxic chemicals in its printers, computers, servers and storage products by the end of 2009
As businesses continue to cut back on IT infrastructure spending—on such items as PCs, telecommunications and networking devices—they are looking to roll those savings into software that can help them drive innovation and g ...
Users get half what ISPs promise them, according to an Ofcom report
Got questions on how to get more from your data centre? This online event promises access to the experts without leaving your desk
The aerospace industry including Rolls Royce will receive funding to help boost high-tech manufacturing
Reports from the Financial Times and Apple Insider suggest Apple is readying a tablet, probably priced below $1,000, for a Christmas or first-quarter 2010 release.
Maybe Davis should have done a Google search before he challenged the shining knight of privacy
Queen Margaret University has won an award for its sustainable approach to IT, based on the roll out of a low power, thin-client desktop infrastructure
It's as old as the moon landings, but IBM's real-time transaction system, CICS, is still in use on the majority of all mainframes
Google's poor privacy record makes it the last place to put private data, says Tory shadow home secretary turned civil liberties campaigner David Davis
Microsoft will release two out-of-band security bulletins tomorrow, targeting issues in Internet Explorer and the Visual Studio product line
Google programmers have ‘open sourced' two components of the Google Wave messaging and collaboration prototype
The European Commission confirms that Microsoft will offer European users a special edition of Windows 7 will be called the E version
Nokia, LG and Samsung all grew market share, as an analyst reports that 269 million handsets were shipped in the second quarter of 2009
The IT Effectiveness Index Mid-Year Report has found small-to-medium-sized businesses with failing IT are at a competitive disadvantage