As the Patriot Act drowns Safe Habor concepts, European cloud services find a marketing angle
Google adds forward secure HTTPS encryption for its key Web services to thwart retrospective decryption
Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku launches relational object database service built on Postgres
European regulators have been asked to investigate Oracle's decision to end Itanium support
Among other cuts, Google has scrapped the RE>C project but has posted its results for others to use
Local authorities still flagrantly disregard data protection laws in over 1,000 cases of negligent data loss
The Open Compute Project is looking deeper into green data centres, from storage to systems management
Google extends the Swiffy Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool and releases new and updated tools in other areas
Project Odyssey will allow mission-critical HP Itanium and x86 servers to run in the same enclosures
Microsoft is to streamline the upgrade process of Windows 8 as it continues to tweak the new OS
Civil servants will publish £50 billion of contract opportunities - and procure the solutions themselves
Start-up Jelastic has released a beta of its Java platform-as-a-service for hosting service providers
Flash used to be central to Google's competition with Apple's devices. Now it seems HTML5 is enough, says Clint Boulton
The shortage of mainframe skills could result in increased costs and system outages, Compuware warns
Visa opens a developer centre to provide access to its technology without compromising security
A court ruling ordering Twitter to hand over an Icelandic MP's private data has broader repercussions
Big Blue's 100 petaflop Blue Gene is also green, giving two gigaflops per Watt.
The integration partnership deepens with direct connection for Facebook-to-Facebook calls through Skype
Facebook said it has identified the people who used a cross-site scripting vulnerability to spam users
Google has repaired and improved its native Gmail for iPhone app, re-releasing it on Apple's App Store
Tech Trends report asked developers where advanced data analytics would yield the greatest benefits
The Android operating system hit 52.5 percent market share compared with 15 percent for Apple's iPhone
Salesforce acquires mobile, social cloud specialist to bolster itself against Oracle, SAP and other rivals
IMS.cloud blocks messages that are malicious or violate corporate policy and the user is notified
Microsoft is to tweak Windows 8 power-management capabilities to broaden its tablet appeal
The high level language beloved by banks, COBOL is 50 years old and still in widespread use, says Ed Airey…
Google X is reportedly a top-secret lab working on robots, space travel, and Internet-connected light bulbs