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MWC 2012: Huawei Adds Its Backing To Tizen Mobile OS
Android beware, Huawei has added its backing to Tizen just as a beta of the new mobile operating system has been made available
Strange Android Devices Try To Make A Monkey Of Apple’s Gorilla
Tablet makers, realising they can’t beat the iPad 3, are trying to play different games instead. Wayne Rash asks: will it work?
Raspberry Pi Launch – A PC For The Price Of A Pair Of Jeans
£22 or less can buy a Linux-based computer to teach the principles of computing to a new generation of programmers
MWC 2012: Mozilla Marketplace Is Open To Developers
Mozilla has announced its Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developer apps submissions for sale later this year
SIG Lab Wants To Make Software More Energy Efficient
Laboratory's research could make every computer a little bit “greener”
MWC 2012: Facebook Pushes Mobile Web Standards Effort
Facebook and more than 30 other companies are to back the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group
MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn
The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead
RSA 2012: WAF Added To QualysGuard Cloud Security Platform
Web Application Firewall touted to protect against spammers, SQL injections and DDoS attacks
Facebook To Tackle Open Source Storage Hardware
Social networking site plans to build own storage hardware to handle growing number of user uploads
Report: Microsoft Office 15 To Get Touch Mode
Microsoft will add a new mode to its upcoming version of Office making it more suitable for touch-screen devices
Adobe ‘Project Primetime’ Integrates Video With Advertising, Analytics
Adobe has announced a new fully integrated video technology platform aimed at enabling TV-like experiences for advertising-supported videos on connected devices
HTML5 Copyright Protection Proposals Branded “Unethical”
Google, Microsoft and Netflix lend their support to DRM for HTML5
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 Betas Out Next Week
Microsoft gave a sneak peek of the next version of its flagship toolset codenamed Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5
iPad 3: New Picture In An Old Frame
Apple's iPad 3 overall design will resemble its predecessors despite major internal upgrades
Open Source Code Is As Good As Proprietary, Says Coverity
Open source code scanned by Coverity had slightly fewer flaws per 1000 lines
Delegation Aims To Pull Silicon Valley Data Centres To Sweden
Officials from Sweden are on a mission to lure Californian data to the cooler, greener Nordic environment
TFL Counts On Developers To Help Ease Olympic Travel Chaos
Transport 'hotspot' data released to developers to help travelling public 'Get Ahead of the Games'
Huddle Launches Cloud-Based Enterprise File Sync Service
Cloud app enables employees to access relevant documents securely and remotely from an entire corporate knowledge store
Standalone Akamai Security Service Aims To Block DDoS Attacks
Akamai has announced Kona Site Defender security service to defend customers against various types of DDoS attacks
Google Says Microsoft’s IE9 Privacy Policy Is Broken
Google doesn't follow P3P, but then nor does anyone else, says Google's communications vice president
Aylesbury Council Invites Bids For Cloud Framework
Aylesbury announces plans for a £1.5m cloud to save costs and integrate its solutions
Single-Atom Transistor Created By Australian University
Physicists have created a transistor out of a single phosphorus atom, opening new doors for quantum computing
Jelastic Java Platform Set For Commercial Debut
Jelastic's Java plaform-as-a-service will become commercially available in North America and Europe next month
US Regulators Criticise Android, iOS Child Protection
Applications for Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices don't provide enough information on how children's privacy is protected, according to the US' FTC
Apple’s Mac OS X ‘Mountain Lion’ Borrows Heavily From iOS
Mountain Lion emphasises Apple's "mobility first" strategy and incorporates even more features from iOS – again
O2 And Isobar NFC Competition Touches Developers For Cool Ideas
Isobar Create London is an upcoming free competition for developers of Near Field Communication apps
American Express Cardmembers Get Early Access To Twitter Ad Platform
The first 10,000 American Express small business merchants to register will get vouchers to test Twitter's new ad platform
HP Shows Planned Autonomy Products At Partner Conference
Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch unveiled a corporate search appliance along with video and mobile products in Las Vegas
Certificate Authorities Warned By Mozilla About Issuing MITM SSL Certs
Mozilla has drafted a letter warning certificate authorities not to issue eavesdropping "man-in-the-middle" certificates