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Android Tackles Phone Makers Over Lockdowns

Google's Android engineers claim handset makers that lock down their smartphones beg for rooting exploits

14 years ago

Prototyping Lab For HTML5 Launched By Microsoft

Microsoft's HTML5 Labs allows developers to test new and evolving specs for inclusion in IE9 online

14 years ago

Last Of UK ‘WiSpy’ Data Deleted

Google has deleted the last of the payload data inadvertently collected by its Street View cars in the UK

14 years ago

BA Confirms Website Problems Due To Snow Demand

British Airways has confirmed that its website is “operating intermittently” due to the sheer volume of requests

14 years ago

Rackspace Buys Cloudkick For Cloud Management

Rackspace will use Cloudkick's dashboard to manage multivendor clouds

14 years ago

Film Industry Orders BT To Block File-Sharing Site

The Hollywood film studios'association has demanded that BT blocks access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2

14 years ago

Apple Prepares Mac App Store For Launch On Jan 6

Apple plans to launch an App Store for its Macintosh users in the hope of attracting third-party developers

14 years ago

Facebook’s Facial Recognition Adds Tags Automatically

Facebook is adding a facial recognition capability to tag friends' images automatically on the social network

14 years ago

BPI: Illegal Music Downloads Far Exceed Legal Ones

Piracy is robbing the music industry of its income, claims BPI, but rights activists dismiss this as 'whinging'

14 years ago

Why Do Virtualised Servers Need Real Support Staff?

Long term, virtualisation and the cloud will be less labour-intensive than today's IT, says Peter Judge. But in the short…

14 years ago

TfL Restores Real-Time Tube Data Feed

London commuters will soon get tube information direct to their mobile phones after TfL restored its data feed

14 years ago

Twitter And LinkedIn Users Urged To Change Passwords

The hack of Gawker Media over the weekend has prompted other major sites to advise users to change their passwords

14 years ago

Microsoft Brings HTML5 Video Plug-in To Firefox

Firefox users who use Windows can now enjoy HTML5 video in their browser, thanks to Microsoft

14 years ago

Symantec’s Machine Learning Prevents Data Loss

Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11 will feature "vector machine learning" to help define sensitive data policies

14 years ago

The Lesson To Be Learnt From Anonymous

The DDoS attacks on WikiLeaks' opponents contain a serious lesson that should be heeded by every website owner, says Eric…

14 years ago

Google Plans Big Changes For Android Market

Google is to give Android Market a carousel view and a streamlined discovery andpurchasing process, along with developer improvements

14 years ago

Salesforce Leaps Onto Cloud 2 As Its New Platform

At Dreamforce, Marc Benioff has been hailing the dawn of a new era for SaaS and new tools to match

14 years ago

Microsoft Exchange Data Cloud Backup Utility From Google

Google Message Continuity cloud backup preserves the data integrity of Microsoft Exchange if it goes down

14 years ago

Apache Blasts Oracle As It Resigns From JCP

Apache Software Foundation quits the Java Community Process over Java technology compatibility kit row

14 years ago

Hundreds Of Bank Sites Vulnerable To Old RSA Flaw

Two years on and banks have yet to apply a patch protecting RSA's Adaptive Authentication platform

14 years ago

Intel Announces Atom-based Smartphones For 2011

Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that smartphones using the “Medfield” chip should ship in the second half of 2011

14 years ago

Amazon EC2-Like Private Clouds From Nimbula Director

Nimbula Director was one of several private cloud announcements at Gartner's Data Centre Conference

14 years ago

Oracle Launches Java Cloud Software And Blades

In Brazil, Oracle launched Elastic Cloud X2-2, Java middleware for SPARC Exalogic servers, and two blade servers

14 years ago

SAP Sends Second Wave Into Collaboration Market

Though Google Wave failed, SAP hopes StreamWork will successfully carry real-time collaboration into the enterprise

14 years ago

QNX Officially Destined For BlackBerrys, RIM Confirms

RIM's Mike Lazaridis officially confirmed that the PlayBook QNX OS will replace the BlackBerry OS -eventually

14 years ago

Silver Surfers Are Growing, But Need More Help Online

Ofcom says the over-65s are gradually coming online, but charities want more help for the offline generation

14 years ago

Citrix Demonstrates Its Support For Google Chrome OS

Citrix Systems has pledged to support Chrome OS in 2011 by pairing its Receiver app with Chrome netbooks

14 years ago

Mastercard Website Punished For WikiLeaks Ban

Operation: Payback, a WikiLeaks’ supporter initiative, has turned its DDoS attacks on Mastercard

14 years ago

Keep The Suits Out Of Innovation

IT companies are slowly becoming more responsible in the way they operate, but true innovation requires corporate diversity, argues Jim…

14 years ago

Salesforce Floats Database.com Cloud For Enterprises

Salesforce unveiled Database.com increasing its competition in the cloud against Oracle and Microsoft

14 years ago