Projects

Institute for Web Science Axed In Spending Cuts

Academic organisation led by Tim Berners-Lee will no longer receive funding under new government’s £6.2 billion efficiency plans

15 years ago

Promoted Tweets Protected From Third-party Ads

Revised developer terms of service deny third parties ability to inject paid tweets on any service that uses its API

15 years ago

Nokia And Yahoo Partner On Mobile Services

Yahoo and Nokia announce a partnership that will see Yahoo become the global provider for Nokia's Ovi e-mail and messenger…

15 years ago

Salesforce CEO Hits Out at Microsoft ‘Ally Thugs’

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff used strong language during a recent earnings call to describe a patent-infringement lawsuit brought by Microsoft

15 years ago

Google TV Gets Cautious Welcome

Analysts have given Google’s upcoming Android 2.1-based TV offering the thumbs up, but caution that the IT industry is littered…

15 years ago

HP Labs’ Manure-Fuelled Data Centre Creates Stink

Research paper suggesting cow poo could be used to fuel a 1-megawatt data centre has industry watchers wondering what the…

15 years ago

IBM Pushes Sybase Migration to DB2

IBM has introduced pushing a new technology to allow Sybase ASE applications to connect to a DB2 DBMS

15 years ago

Analyst Predicts Tablet Goldrush From iPad Success

With the iPad, Apple kicked open a door that numerous competitors are expected to follow it through, sending tablet sales…

15 years ago

More Speed For Google Android 2.2

Google has launched Android 2.2 at Google I/O, bringing Adobe Flash 10.1, greater performance and enterprise capabilities to the platform

15 years ago

Google Offers Cloud Storage For Developers

Google Storage for Developers utilises the RESTful API and Google's existing storage and networking infrastructure to store code from cloud-computing…

15 years ago

iPad App Store Goes Live In UK

Apple opens up access to the App Store for its tablet device to fans outside of the US, but locks…

15 years ago

Oracle Bags Secerno’s Database Security

Oracle is buying database security vendor Secerno in a bid to grab its database firewall technology

15 years ago

Google Launches Chrome Web Store

The search giant introduces Chrome Web Store so 70 million users of its web browser can find create shortcuts to…

15 years ago

VeriSign Sells Authentication Business to Symantec for $1.3bn

Barely a day after the rumours started to fly, Symantec confirms plans to buy VeriSign's identity and authentication security business

15 years ago

Google Touts Enterprise Cloud With VMware

Google launches new version of hosting platform and a VMware partnership to help bring enterprise Java developers to the cloud

15 years ago

Google Sets Its Wave Platform Free

Google has opened up Google Wave to everyone for free, one year after introducing the real-time collaboration platform to Google…

15 years ago

Survey Suggests Vista Stigma Lifting

Microsoft’s reputation among consumers experienced a lift after the release of Windows 7, according to the latest US index, but…

15 years ago

Europe Finally Gets Digital Agenda

Digital manifesto for the region faces criticism on open source and copyright expectations

15 years ago

HP Unveils Location App for Android, BlackBerry

Researchers at HP have revealed they are working on Gloe, an app that lets users search for, tag and bookmark…

15 years ago

Government To Appoint Broadband Minister

A new broadband minister could be appointed "later this week", according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

15 years ago

CEOs Want To Get Creative, Says IBM

Chief executives see the world getting more complex, and want to get creative in response, according to an IBM survey

15 years ago

Porn Controversy Sees Jimmy Wales Give Up Wikipedia Admin Rights

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has given up his admin rights, after he angered editors by removing images that he deemed…

15 years ago

Asus To Offer Two-For-One 3G Device

Asus is working on a new communications module, which will offer users the option to plug a phone into their…

15 years ago

Amazon Helps US Government Leap Into The Cloud

The US Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has moved its Recovery.gov site to a cloud computing infrastructure powered by Amazon

15 years ago

Wikipedia Refreshes Interface And Improves Navigation

Wikipedia has changed its navigation, search and editing features in an effort to improve the user experience

15 years ago

Android 2.2 Boasts Massive Performance Boost

Google Android 2.2 sports a 450 percent performance boost over Android 2.1, as well as tethering and serving as a…

15 years ago

IPv6 Uptake Slow Despite Internet Address Shortage

We've heard it before but apparently, this time IP version 4 really is going to run out, and we all…

15 years ago

Developers Want Bigger Slice Of App Store Sales

Many developers are dissatisfied with the 30/70 split they get from creating applications for popular app stores.

15 years ago

Web Consortium Launches New Business XML Tool

The World Wide Web Consortium announces the availability of the XProc specification for managing XML-rich processes

15 years ago

Managing Virtual Resources: A Practical Guide

Amid economic pressures and technological advances, keeping up with the market becomes an issue. The answer is good management, says…

15 years ago