Projects

Microsoft Makes Play For WebOS Developers

Microsoft is coaxing webOS developers left in the lurch by HP's shock move to switch to Windows Phone

13 years ago

IBM Chip Prototypes Mirror The Human Brain

IBM's prototype “cognitive computing” chips act like a brain, collecting and analysing information

13 years ago

HP’s webOS Ambitions Were Doomed To Fail

Hewlett-Packard is killing, or selling, its much-publicised webOS but a Gartner analyst said it never stood a chance, says Nicholas…

13 years ago

UCAS Website Back Online After Crash

The UCAS Track website is now back online, after an agonising period of down time on A-Level results day

13 years ago

Microsoft’s Office 365 Outage Hits US Customers

Microsoft’s Office 365 was hit by outages in North America but Europe and the Pacific Rim were not affected

13 years ago

Poor SSL Setups Leave Websites Open To Attack

Organisations are transmitting sensitive data without any security due to improper SSL configuration

13 years ago

Facebook Exec Takes Swipe At Google+

A Facebook executive has hit out at Google's increasingly popular social networking site, Google+

13 years ago

Amazon GovCloud Secured For US Government

Amazon Web Services has launched a tightly secured cloud offering, AWS GovCloud, for the US government

13 years ago

Microsoft Blog Ramps Windows 8 Build-Up

Microsoft has launched a Windows 8 blog as the beginning of its massive marketing campaign

13 years ago

Google+ Battles Facebook For Game Developers

Google+ has introduced social games with competitive developer rates as it looks to challenge Facebook

13 years ago

Hong Kong Exchange News Site Blocked By DDoS

A distributed denial of service attack hit the HK Stock Exchange News Web but trading was relatively unaffected

13 years ago

Lush Hack Leads ICO To Warn Other Online Retailers

Lush Cosmetics avoided an ICO fine for a recent security breach but had to pay for an expensive redesign

13 years ago

Citrix Buys RingCube For Virtual Desktop Technologies

RingCube controls security and file access to authorise various mobile devices to access a VDI system

13 years ago

Amazon Sidesteps Apple With Kindle Browser Launch

Amazon has bypassed Apple's strict app policies after allowing Kindle e-books to be read in a browser

13 years ago

RIM Blog Hacked After Police Offered BBM Access

As London burned, Team Poison hacked RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog to protest against company helping police

13 years ago

Google Updates Google+ Mobile Features

Google+ has been updated with more Huddle messaging controls and support for Apple iPad and iPod Touch

13 years ago

Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds

Lightning strikes in Dublin disabled two major data centres and knocked back-up power supplies offline

13 years ago

Apple Surprises Developers With iOS 5 Beta Update

Apple surprised developers this weekend after it issued an update to its iOS 5 platform beta

13 years ago

AMD Offers Up Fusion SDK For Developers

AMD is offering developers a SDK in order to the exploit the capabilities of its Fusion processors

13 years ago

Malware Wave Infects Six Million e-Commerce Pages

A malware infection, based on known flaws, has hit millions of e-commerce Web pages in the past two weeks

13 years ago

Facial Recognition, Social Networks Threaten Privacy

At Black Hat, a researcher showed how facial-recognition could link passers-by to Facebook profiles

13 years ago

Microsoft Researcher Slams Google+ Real-Name Policy

Google+'s real-name policy is an abuse of power and harms privacy, according to Microsoft researcher Dana Boyd

13 years ago

Rackspace Adds Critical Sites Support For Enterprises

Mission critical Web applications can be supported and monitored 24x7 under Rackspace's latest service

13 years ago

Dell Joins Hadoop Crowd With Cloudera Partnership

Dell will add PowerEdge C servers, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software

13 years ago

Enterprise Plus For Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon Web Services launches VPC globally and announces Direct Connect and identity management

13 years ago

DoJ Wades In To Android Patent Attacks

Microsoft and Apple are being questioned about Nortel's former wireless patents and Android-bashing

13 years ago

Intel’s $30m Cloud And Embedded Research Centres

Intel is opening two new university research centres that will focus on cloud and embedded computing

13 years ago

HP Tweaks TouchPad Bugs, Security And More

HP has pushed out an OS update for the TouchPad tablet, with tweaks to everything from scrolling to security

13 years ago

WANdisco Adds Context To Apache Subversion

WANdisco offers uberSVN and its app store to unify the software Apache Subversion development process

13 years ago

Spain Investigates “Anticompetitive” Oracle

Spanish authorities are examining HP's claims of anticompetitive practices by Oracle relating to Itanium support

13 years ago