Projects

Java Creator Gosling Quits Oracle

Despite placating developers over Oracle's intentions for Sun, the creator of Java has left the company

15 years ago

Adobe Announces Web-Enabled Creative Suite 5

Adobe Systems has announced Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5), a new release of its design and development software

15 years ago

Enterprise Java Developers Shifting To The Cloud

A new survey of more than 1,000 enterprise Java developers that indicates that they are moving to the cloud

15 years ago

Oracle To Address MySQL Concerns and Outline Strategy

An Oracle executive will use a show next week to address concerns about the future roadmap and strategy for MySQL

15 years ago

Boy Sues Mother Over Facebook Harassment

A mother of a teenager boy is facing harassment charges over allegedly hacking her son's Facebook account

15 years ago

US Court Ruling Sparks Net Neutrality Fears

The US Court of Appeals has thrown out a 2008 Federal Communications Commission ruling that Comcast violated its network neutrality…

15 years ago

Microsoft Consumer Market Set For Revival

Microsoft could reclaim its flagging consumer market share with a new wave of products, including Windows Phone 7 and Bing,…

15 years ago

Google Includes Adobe Flash In Chrome Browser

Adobe and Google have worked together to integrate the Flash Player with Google's Chrome web browser

15 years ago

Ordnance Survey Makes Mapping Data Freely Available

Ordnance Survey today released its maps to the public free of charge, as part of an initiative to make government…

15 years ago

New Xeon 7500 Treads On Itanium’s Toes

Intel says its Xeon 7500 gives its biggest performance jump yet. Others wonder if it spells the end for Itanium,…

15 years ago

Jury Confirms Novell Ownership Of Unix

SCO Group's controversial attempt to claim ownership of the Unix operating system could be at an end, after a jury…

15 years ago

Government Puts Copyright Clause Back Into Digital Bill

The government plans to reverse the changes made by the House of Lords to the Digital Economy Bill, and rush…

15 years ago

Enterprise Use Of Facebook, Google Apps Soars

Facebook, Twitter, and most Google applications are being heavily used within enterprise organisations, a survey has found

15 years ago

CIOs Tag Legacy Apps As Most Painful

Legacy applications cause the biggest headache for corporate IT management, despite them being a minor part of the overall product…

15 years ago

File-Sharing Case Against UK Teenager Is Dropped

A teenager charged with distributing copyrighted material using the BitTorrent site Oink has been acquitted due to lack of evidence

15 years ago

RIM Acquires Smartphone Software Developer Viigo

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired smartphone software developer Viggo for an undisclosed sum

15 years ago

HP Strike Action Called Off By Union

HP workers have suspended their two-day strike action as talks continue over pay freezes and redundancies

15 years ago

Facebook To Allow Third-Party Access To User Info

Facebook has announced another update to its privacy policy, allowing some third party applications access to users' information without prior…

15 years ago

Review: YouSendIt Enables Secure File Transfer — Maybe

YouSendIt makes emailing large, sensitive files secure and manageable by avoiding the pain of using FTP clients and servers

15 years ago

Bletchley Park Gets £250,000 Government Funding

Second world war codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given a £250,000 government grant to pay for repairs to the…

15 years ago

Mandelson Adds Government Backing For Innovation Centres

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced Government support for the development of a network of technology and innovation centres

15 years ago

Oracle Absorbs Sun Without Financial Harm

After acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle looks tanned and healthy, with solid quarterly financial results

15 years ago

Spiceworks Adds Virtualisation Management To Free Tool

A developer of free IT management software, Spiceworks, has added support for virtualised machines in the new version of its…

15 years ago

Computer Aid Readies Container-Based Cyber Café

IT charity Computer Aid International is about to ship a solar powered shipping container that will act as a cyber…

15 years ago

Twitter Wages War On Spam

Twitter engineers have brought down the level of spam on the site to just one percent, while the GSMA is…

15 years ago

Businesses Heedless Of ‘Risky’ Clouds

A quarter of businesses are willing to use cloud computing, despite security concerns - but tight budgets are often holding…

15 years ago

UK Pirate Party Calls For Legalised File-Sharing

On Budget day, with the Digital Economy Bill still before Parliament, the UK Pirate Party's election manifesto demands new copyright…

15 years ago

Mozilla Stops Development Of Firefox For Windows Mobile

Development of a version of Firefox that would run on Windows Mobile has been halted, with Mozilla blaming Microsoft's development…

15 years ago

Open Rights Group To Demo Against Digital Bill

The digital rights organisation has organised a demo outside Parliament to protest against the "spatchcock" Digital Economy Bill

15 years ago

Berners-Lee To Head Institute For Web Science

The web pioneer will head an organisation based at universities in Oxford and Southampton

15 years ago