Projects

Apache Threatens Oracle With Java Exit Over Licence Row

The Apache Software Foundation has threatened to quit the Java governing body over a licensing row with Oracle

14 years ago

Palm Pre 2 Rumoured To Arrive This Friday

HP has refused to confirm reports that the successor to the Palm Pre will go on sale in the UK…

14 years ago

Android Market Plagued With Download Failures

Reports are emerging that Google's Android Market is having major problems letting Android smartphone users download and install apps

14 years ago

Government Launches Transparency Website

The Prime Minister has launched a new site in beta, giving the public regular access to internal government information

14 years ago

Government To Publish Broadband Strategy

When the government promises "the best broadband in Europe" what does it mean? We'll know in December

14 years ago

IT Staff Feel They Are Treated Worse Than Their Peers

Half of IT people feel they are treated badly - so how can their lives be improved?

14 years ago

Cameron Envisages Silicon Valley In East London

The government plans to attract high-tech visionaries and entrepreneurs to London’s Olympics site after 2012

14 years ago

BT Scuppers Ministry Of Sound’s Flagship Piracy Battle

The Ministry of Sound is speechless after BT destroys most of the evidence for its battle against illegal music downloading

14 years ago

Facebook Mobile Apps Refreshed For iPhone And Android

New smartphone apps from Facebook add single sign-on to iPhones and Androids, along with Deals for the iPhone

14 years ago

Oracle Announces APIs For Cloud Interoperability

With its Cloud API, Oracle joins the crowd vying to get their vision of cloud interoperability adopted as the industry…

14 years ago

Czech Republic Cloud Development Centre Opened By NetSuite

Netsuite's development centre in the Czech Republic will focus on marketing its services and partners' products

14 years ago

Apple Approves App That Streams Flash To iOS Users

Apple has approved an app that will finally allow Flash videos to run on iOS devices

14 years ago

Firms To Bid For New Short UK Domains

The UK's Internet registry is making one- and two-character domains available to the highest bidder

14 years ago

Microsoft’s Cloudy Thinking Could Stunt Windows 8

Microsoft is making wrong assumptions about cloud adoption in a world still tied to XP, compounding the risks surrounding Windows…

14 years ago

Twitter Promotes Advertising Tweets In Its Timeline

Twitter is testing non-intrusive advertising with Promoted Tweets in its timelines, bringing paid ads to its 175 million users

14 years ago

Broadcom Releases Samples Of Its 100Gb Ethernet Silicon

Broadcom unveiled the BCM88600 chip for 100GbE switches to meet the growing demands of data and video network traffic

14 years ago

Oracle Snaps Up Art Technology Group for £624 Million

Oracle is once again splashing the cash, this time over half a billion pounds for e-commerce software provider Art Technology…

14 years ago

IBM, General Motors Collaborate On Electric Car

IBM's software was used to build a 'system of systems' to drive the Volt's propulsion system

14 years ago

Endgame Systems’ Reputation Service Sniffs Out Botnets

Startup ipTrust will warn businesses when botnets strike by revealing links form specific IP addresses to Web-threats

14 years ago

SSD Group Promises PCIe Standard

A five-company consortium wants to make PCIe-connected SSDs as easy to use as hard disks

14 years ago

Microsoft Talks Cloud Apps At Developer Show

Microsoft is looking to show developers new ways to build cloud apps at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2010

14 years ago

Intel Forms Open Standards Alliance For The Cloud

Open standards are needed for cloud-based data centres, says Intel and its new Open Data Center Alliance

14 years ago

Local Business Boost As Google Places Launches

Place Search groups together local information when Google users search for a restaurant, landmark or business

14 years ago

UK Twitter Session Hijacking Tool Follows Firesheep Flock

The Firesheep extension for Firefox has helped to give birth to a similar tool that targets Twitter sessions

14 years ago

Court Closure As Limewire Runs Out Of Juice

The RIAA is celebrating the closure of Limewire, the word’s biggest music and film file-sharing service

14 years ago

PayPal Launches Mobile Micropayments Service

PayPal is launching a micropayments platform that will allow consumers to purchase goods and content online

14 years ago

Access Adds Green XML For Financial Carbon Footprints

BASDA Green XML is being tested by Access in a sustainability module for its financial and reporting package

14 years ago

Amazon Offers Free Access To EC2 Cloud

Amazon wants to tempt users into the cloud with a year's free access to the its EC2 service

14 years ago

Social Media Giants Pump $250m Into Startups

Amazon, Facebook and others invest in KPCB's sFund to encourage social applications startups

14 years ago

Street View Could Face Privacy Backlash In Germany

Google said that 244,327 of the 8.5 million German households have opted out of Street View, but not every request…

14 years ago