Projects

RIM Acquires tinyHippos For Mobile App Testing

BlackBerry maker RIM is looking to make life easier for app developers after acquiring startup tinyHippos

14 years ago

eBay Buys E-Commerce Giant GSI For $2.4bn

eBay's acquisition of GSI Commerce is intended to help eBay compete with Amazon.com

14 years ago

Amazon Launches Cloud Music Player

Amazon customers can now listen to their music anywhere they go thanks to the company's cloud music player

14 years ago

Java Founder Gosling Lands At Google

James Gosling, founder of Java, has joined Google in a wide-ranging role after his high-profile exit from Oracle

14 years ago

iPad 3, iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion Rumoured At Apple Event

Apple has said it will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on 6 June in San Francisco

14 years ago

Edinburgh Scientists Develop Low-Power Memory

The Scots scientists propose a tiny mechanical arm and nanotubes to save power in gadget memory

14 years ago

Budget Missed Incentives For IT Savings, Says Socitm

The Chancellor should have invested in local authorities to save more and reduce the economy's carbon footprint

14 years ago

Stallman: Only Victims Of Tyranny Should Use Facebook

Only victims of tyranny can justify use of Facebook says freedom activist Richard Stallman. He also spoke in favour of…

14 years ago

Oracle Slates HP For Defending Itanium’s Future

Oracle reiterated its claim Itanium will be phased out and accused defensive HP of doing customers a disservice

14 years ago

ISPs Start Court Action Over Legality Of DEA

BT and TalkTalk have begun to frame their arguments in a court bid to overturn the Digital Economy Act

14 years ago

Student Uses GPS To Sniff Out Stolen iPhone

Student tracks thief, and parachutist finds dropped mobile using the free GPS app Find My iPhone

14 years ago

Open Source Data Tool For Analysing “Big Data”

Facebook scraper Pete Warden unveiled his answer to allow anyone to analyse Big Data on the cheap

14 years ago

Google Brought To Book On Mega Digital Library Plans

Google's dream of scanning every book in the world suffered a setback in the US courts

14 years ago

Comodo Web Certificates Heist Linked To Iranian ISP

A Comodo Security partner was compromised and attackers issued valid digital certificates for popular Websites that would have potentially allowed…

14 years ago

LinkedIn Does The Business For 100M Users

Eight years on, business social network LinkedIn reaches 100 million users as it prepares to go public

14 years ago

Amazon Appstore Challenges Google Android Market

Amazon opened its Appstore for Android, allowing users to test drive apps before they pay and download

14 years ago

Mozilla’s Anti-XSS Tool for Firefox 4 Secures Twitter

Twitter implements its Content Security Policy for Firefox 4 to block cross-site scripting attacks

14 years ago

BAA Outsources Airports’ IT Overhaul

£100m deal to share real-time information and improve crisis response and service levels

14 years ago

Fujitsu Wins Major HPC Wales Project

Fujitsu will re-enter the European market with a £15m lighthouse supercomputing partner project

14 years ago

Play.com Hack Exposes Customer Data

Following a breach, Play.com has shifted the blame onto an unnamed third-party market comms firm

14 years ago

Juniper Networks Joins Eclipse Foundation

Networking firm announces its membership of open source Eclipse Foundation with Junos access

14 years ago

Fraunhofer Miniature Camera Is A Millimetre Cube

The Fraunhofer Institute and Awaiba have developed a tiny camera that could have a big future

14 years ago

Nano Memory Reduces Power Requirements 100 Fold

A US research team has developed phase-change memory that could extend battery life significantly

14 years ago

Experts: Android May Violate Linux Rules

Google's approach to the Linux kernel with Android may be leaving it open to legal attack

14 years ago

RIM Considers Cloud Services And Office 365 Access

RIM is expanding its cloud services and porting Microsoft Office 365 cloud to PlayBook and BlackBerry

14 years ago

Japan Disasters Will Not Hurt Chip Production

Intel and Qualcomm say their operations' geographical spread will insulate them from Japan's shortages

14 years ago

Faster Linux Kernel Has Disaster Relief Mesh

The new Linux kernel has speed improvements but also has relevance for disaster relief teams

14 years ago

Web Inventor Stands Up For The Open Internet

Tim Berners-Lee says ISPs must uphold net neutrality as they strive to manage increasing data on the web

14 years ago

Graphics-Enabled Processor Demand Rising Rapidly

IHS iSuppli says half of all notebooks and 45 percent of desktops will ship with graphics-enabled CPUs in 2011

14 years ago

UTI Arms Mobile Developers With Best Practices

The United Testing Initiative has released guidelines for best practices to mobile developers

14 years ago