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People who believe the cloud is not secure enough are missing the point, says Peter Judge. If the MoD can lose an entire server then, chances are, it's your internal data centres that aren't secure enough
Two reports have this week thrown a spotlight on the impact of water on carbon-saving programmes in the data centre
Monopoly ISP operates "Kang-Karoo Court" and punishes users beyond the demands of the music industry
Palm has released Palm webOS 1.1 to target its Pre smartphone at enterprises, according to a Palm executive
Yahoo's board was reportedly due to meet yesterday to discuss a potential search engine and online advertising partnership with Microsoft
Microsoft is feeling the effects of the recession, with declines in the PC and server sales, as earnings decline 17 percent from the same quarter last year
Oracle has acquired GoldenGate Software to integrate into its database and middleware products, alongside Sun and Virtual Iron
AMD said it has shipped it 500-millionth chip shipped comes days after reporting a $330 million loss on disappointing revenue compared with rival Intel
Sure, with Bing and Chrome OS, Microsoft and Google are aping each other's flagship products. But, says Jim Rapoza, the way the announcements were made shows the companies turning into each other
The UK needs a chief engineer and chief scientist to create a "vision" for science and technology
Using drivers' GPS data and other sources could throw up privacy issues, warns European information privacy regulator
A Foxconn worker who had been overseeing 16 prototypes of Apple's fourth-generation iPhone is reported to have killed himself after Foxconn security interrogated him over a missing mobile prototype
Intel officials are appealing the European Commission's $1.45 billion fine for antitrust violations, saying European regulators ignored the realities of a competitive processor market
Larger enterprises in emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, China and India were more likely to increase investments in IT hardware than their counterparts in mature markets
Storage virtualisation software maker VMware reports profits of $33 million (£20m) or 8 cents per share, compared with $52 million or 13 cents per share a year ago
Don Reisinger advocates maintaining your perspective and an open mind to employee use of Web 2.0 with his ten top tips
Don't ask to run Google Apps on your own server. If you want that, you're wrong, says Google's Eran Feigenbaum. But does Google use two-factor authentication or not?
Online communications could unleash co-operation and solve the big problems, if world institutions can be set up, Gordon Brown tells event
Server virtualisation with a crisis-proof price and performance which rivals VMware
The creation of a new European space center will add to the £6.5bn the sector already contributes to the UK economy
Researchers will highlight some of the threats and concerns facing plans to deploy smart grid technology - and what can be done about them
AMD posts another quarterly financial loss, but the results show some improvement over AMD's performance from a year ago
Apple reports quarterly profits and revenue exceeding Wall Street analyst predictions, and says both iPhones and Macs experienced year-over-year growth in sales despite the economy
Yahoo has let users opt in to try a beta of its new home page, which integrates Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and over 60 other Web services and content sites
IBM is offering cost-conscious businesses a unified communications and collaboration UC(2) solutions based on an open platform
Microsoft and Yahoo's potential deal over search and advertising got public approval from investor Carl Icahn, who owns around 5 percent of Yahoo
McAfee lays out its plans to expand its software-as-a-service business with an eye toward gaining traction among enterprises
Twitter lost its data through a hack on Google Docs. Learn from this to be very careful how much trust you place on cloud apps and Web 2.0, says Eric Lundquist
New service is aimed at helping enterprises tame power-hungry data centres, harness cost savings and gain environmental benefits
Operators who delay network expansion may overload their Internet switches, warns Ovum. Users may have to buy premium IP services instead