Legal

Microsoft Hits Salesforce With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Microsoft has gone legal and slapped Salesforce.com with a patent infringement lawsuit, alleging its CRM service infringed nine Redmond patents

15 years ago

Spiceworks Finds Growing Confidence And Expanding IT Budgets

IT departments within the SMB community are expanding their budgets and jumping on the virtualisation and cloud bandwagon

15 years ago

Electoral Commission’s Data Protection Policies In Question

The UK Electoral Commission admits that it has no system in place to monitor the activities of users who are…

15 years ago

IT Industry Hit Hard By UK Government Cuts

The IT industry will be hit by spending cuts in the UK budget, but green vendors could see fresh opportunities

15 years ago

Will Facebook Fears Make Users More Aware?

Now ordinary people are concerned about Facebook's privacy practices, Larry Walsh asks: will they change their behaviour?

15 years ago

Microsoft Pays £138m To Settle VirnetX Lawsuit

Microsoft is to pay $200 million (£138 million) in order to settle a patent-infringement suit from communications specialist VirnetX

15 years ago

Tech CFOs Optimistic Over Economy And Jobs

The bean counters at tech companies are sounding an optimistic note over the state of the economy and jobs market

15 years ago

Gartner: Data Centres Set For Fresh Headaches

Data centres are set to face a rapid rise in problems associated with power, cooling and space, thanks to the…

15 years ago

Proprietary Vendors Don’t Help Disabled, Says FSF

The open source FSF group has recruited a former proprietary software exec to make the GNU Project's work more accessible

15 years ago

Orange And T-Mobile Merge Into ‘Everything Everywhere’

The combined entity of Orange and T-Mobile has been named Everything Everywhere, but the two brands will remain autonomous

15 years ago

Tech Jobs Rise In April Despite Volatile Economy

The US IT industry added a net gain of 8,800 jobs in April, reversing job losses in March

15 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker Guilty Of ‘Menacing’ Tweet

A man has been fined £1000 after posting a joke on Twitter about blowing up a snow-bound airport

15 years ago

Commercial Spyware For iPad To Track Users’ Activity

Retina-X Studios has released Mobile Spy for the Apple iPad, pitching it as a way for businesses to keep an…

15 years ago

Managing Virtual Resources: A Practical Guide

Amid economic pressures and technological advances, keeping up with the market becomes an issue. The answer is good management, says…

15 years ago

Man Jailed For Selling Fake Cisco Kit

A joint investigation by US federal agencies leads to the conviction of several individuals trading in counterfeit Cisco network hardware

15 years ago

Nokia Adds iPad To Apple Legal Challenge

Nokia launched a new legal complaint against Apple on 7 May, alleging that the iPad and iPhone violate five of…

15 years ago

Media Groups Petition For iPhone 4G Search Warrant

Media organisations have petitioned a California court to unseal the iPhone prototype search warrant affidavit, that was behind the police…

15 years ago

SMBs Struggle To Understand Social Media

Blogs, Facebook and Twitter are now used by most small to medium businesses in the US, although many remain unsure…

15 years ago

Tech Workers Believe Economy Is Improving

Over a third of technology workers believe the economy is improving, and confidence levels are starting to firm up

15 years ago

Network Housekeeper Infoblox Buys Netcordia

Infoblox's boxes handle network chores like DNS management. Now Netcordia adds change management

15 years ago

Apple Facing Anti-Trust Threat Over App Store

Apple could find itself the target of either a Department of Justice or Federal Trade Commission, according to an unnamed…

15 years ago

HP’s Palm Purchase Could Threaten Chinese Phone Market

HP’s purchase of Palm has been called a “preemptive strike” against Chinese vendors, but for the iPhone and BlackBerry there…

15 years ago

Increase In Chip Shipments Signals Market Recovery

Shipments grew in the first quarter over the same period last year, indicating that the PC processor market is moving…

15 years ago

Infosec 2010: Nations Must Coordinate On Cybercrime

The UK is doing better than some countries, but real international cooperation is non-existent, warns the head of the Ponemon…

15 years ago

New Management Working Out For SAP

SAP reported double digit sales and operating profit growth in the company’s 2010 first quarter

15 years ago

SMBs Aggressively Driving Technology Adoption

Small businesses are more aggressive in adopting new technologies, provided there is a demonstrable return on investment

15 years ago

Fusion Garage Linux Tablet Launches In The UK

For those users not wanting to buy into the Apple iPad, a new Linux-based tablet device, dubbed JooJoo, has been…

15 years ago

Infosec 2010: Experts Overlook Motivation For Cyber-Attacks

Organisations focus more on preventing attacks and dealing with the aftermath than investigating their origins, say experts

15 years ago

eG VDI Monitor Ends Virtual Desktop Hell: Review

eG Innovations brings order to the chaos of virtual desktop infrastructure management and keeps administrators in “the know” with eG…

15 years ago

Caution Urged On AV Updates Following McAfee Bug

Organisations to consider a staged approach to updating computers in the wake of the McAfee update fiasco

15 years ago