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Spinvox Denies Privacy And Faking Claims

There are humans in the Spinvox machine, but they're well behaved

Oracle Gets Out Chequebook For Database, Middleware Boost

Oracle has acquired GoldenGate Software to integrate into its database and middleware products, alongside Sun and Virtual Iron

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AMD Ships 500th x86 Processor, Despite Disappointing Quarter

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

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Spinvox “Faked” Speech Transcription Service And Broke Privacy

Speech-to-text service from Spinvox used humans and broke its privacy promises, according to the the BBC and rival vendors

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The Ten Commandments of Social Network Security (For IT Managers)

Don Reisinger advocates maintaining your perspective and an open mind to employee use of Web 2.0 with his ten top tips

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Recession-Busting Space Centre To Combat Climate Change

The creation of a new European space center will add to the £6.5bn the sector already contributes to the UK economy

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IBM Offers Cost-Cutting Office-In-A-Box

IBM is offering cost-conscious businesses a unified communications and collaboration UC(2) solutions based on an open platform

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GlassHouse Takes Aim At Data Centre Energy Impact

New service is aimed at helping enterprises tame power-hungry data centres, harness cost savings and gain environmental benefits

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Cash-Strapped Operators Risk Overheating The Internet

Operators who delay network expansion may overload their Internet switches, warns Ovum. Users may have to buy premium IP services instead

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UK Councils Use Content Management To Boost Efficiency

Two major councils in England are using content and document management technology to play a central transformational role in process efficiency

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Struggling BT Gets A Lift From Cash-Strapped MOD

A £99m, five year contract could help off-set BT's poor performance over the 12 months

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Research Finds SaaS The Greenest Option

NetSuite drives another nail into the coffin of the traditional cost of ownership of on-premise business software

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ICANN’s New Internet Domains Hit Trademark Issues

Trademark-owners and Internet users are scared, but ICANN wants to press ahead with a move to allow an unlimited number of Internet domains

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EC Plans Use For Digital Dividend Spectrum

when analogue TV is switched off, European states will be £40bn better off if they work together on re-using the radio spectrum, says Commissioner Reding

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Zero Carbon Buildings Will Put Pressure On IT

A Westminster summit has suggested the looming zero carbon commercial targets will expose IT operations to more pressures

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Gartner Predicts Rise of Cloud Integration Services

Difficulty integrating cloud services and ensuring their integrity will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages”

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Spammers Abuse Short URL Services Like Twitter

MessageLabs research shows spam containing links masked via URL shortening services has jumped dramatically in the past few days

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Analysts Mixed On Chrome OS Impact On Windows

Analysts say they need to see more of the Linux-based Chrome OS before they believe it will eventually prove disruptive to Windows

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US, South Korea Subjected to Extensive Cyber-Attack

Researchers are working to break down the malicious code tied to a DDOS attack targeting government and commercial sites in the US and South Korea

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NetApp Abandons Bid for Data Domain

UPDATED: EMC will acquire Data Domain for $2.1 billion, as NetApp says NetApp it can't justify a bidding war that would reduce the deal's benefits.

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SaaS Users Not Impressed, Survey Finds

Gartner is calling on SaaS vendors to “reaffirm fundamentals,” after survey reveals finds their products don't satisfy users

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BCS And Tories Back Off From Putting Health Data In Cloud

The British Computer Society has denied involvement with a Conservative suggestion to outsource NHS data to the cloud. The report's author also downplayed the idea

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CompuServe Classic Closes After Thirty Years

One of the pioneers of dial-up Internet faces its final log-out, after a roller-coaster ride of corporate acquisitions

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Google Launches its Chrome OS

Google has introduced its new Google Chrome OS, an operating system project separate from Android and targeted at PCs

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Palm Pre Set For Festive UK, European Launch

The Pre smartphone and iPhone rival, running the Linux-based WebOS, will arrive in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain during the key holiday season

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Gartner Cuts Global IT Spending Forecast

The analyst firm now says IT spending will drop by $200 billion this year, with unprecedented impact on all four major tech industry segments

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Zero Day Attack Targets Internet Explorer Users

A previously unknown vulnerability exploiting an ActiveX component in Internet Explorer targeting XP and Windows 2003 users is spreading across the web