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Open source software is the only way for users to meet the economic crisis, says Roger Burkhardt of Ingres. But they will have to take some short term pain to get out of proprietary licence structures.
The supermarket giant scooped top prize at the prestigious UK business awards for its work with NCR to cut the environmental impact of paper till receipts.
A plug in that runs a web server within a browser, Unite is good for sharing but has security risks: not recommended for most users
Bigger disks, virtualisation, de-duplication and online back-up. We round up the top trends in storage
Google is making it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, mirroring existing enterprise social software from IBM, Socialtext and Jive.
New smartphones have impressed consumers, but the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre still lack business features
As AMD's six-core “Istanbul” Opteron server processor gets the bulk of the publicity, AMD is rolling out additions to its line of quad-core chips
The modern flexible worker is more demanding than ever, says Mark Dixon. He's just overhauled the technology in his chain of Regus serviced offices
Younger people are driving a change in attitude towards the use of mobile phones and their convergence in the workplace, a new survey has found.
The government's legislative programme includes Digital Economy Bill which will enact Digital Britain's proposals for universal broadband and a cut in file-sharing
Cisco is using its networking capabilities to help drive down power consumption in buildings
Sun has upgraded it VirtualBox virtualisation platform, to compete with virtualisation technology from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft
Microsoft has announced a confusing pricing scheme for its new Windows 7 OS while, Apple is keeping it simple with its upcoming Snow Leopard OS release
Oracle's newest middleware technology platform takes advantage of virtualisation and includes new developer tools for easier application building
Despite squeezed budgets, green IT is changing tech buying behaviour and data centre structures.
A major new deployment of energy efficient thin client computers complements campus green-building design features as part of an environmental drive.
A new BladeFrame-based data centre infrastructure will allow the mobile phone retailer to cut costs and support new growth
Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds.
Mozilla adds new privacy features to the latest version of Firefox in response to features in Internet Explorer 8, Apple Safari and Google Chrome
Cisco chief John Chambers has pointed to new sectors it will either enter or grow in, bringing it into even greater competition with the likes of HP and IBM
Palm has sold 370,000 Palm Pre smartphones and expects to sell a million in its first quarter, according to a PalmWebOS.org blogger.
A Trojan which stole 88,000 FTP credentials may have been in action for more than two years, say researchers
ICT professionals tend to view globalisation as an inevitable and positive force for change. But, asks Simon Perry, what sort of a world does it get us involved in?
A report from research firm Infonetics predicts software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the future of managed network security.
The Swedish software firm buying Pirate Bay plans to use its brand together with new file-sharing technology to create a new, legitimate business model.
The US Federal government has decided to spend more time performing due diligence on the proposed Oracle-Sun merger, while Java open source licensing may be emerging as sticking point.
Apple chief Steve Jobs has returned to work after a six-month medical leave that involved a liver transplant, a company spokesperson has said.
Microsoft plans to roll out two new data centres in Dublin and Chicago in July, preparing for increased demand for cloud-based services such as Azure and Bing.
Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system consolidation and standards will be key.
New online application beta aims to help US consumers track, understand and reduce home energy usage.