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Developers Offered HTML5 Advice Via New Website
Developers are being offered HTML5 coding advice and recommendation on a new website called HTML5 Please
WebOS To Be Open Source By September
HP announces release timetable and open source tools for developers
Cloud And SaaS Benefits Bolster Business Intelligence Market
Gartner has identified the drivers for the adoption of SaaS and cloud offerings for BI, analytics and performance management
Avaya Has A Flare For Apple iPad Unified Communications
Avaya Flare Communicator is now providing unified comms on the iPad, and other mobile platforms will go online later this year
Microsoft Azure Support Comes To Cloud9 IDE Developers
Architecting and deploying applications on Windows Azure is now supported in Cloud9's development environment
Microsoft Abandons Its Mix Conference To Build A New One
Microsoft has cancelled its Mix 2012 conference for Web developers and designers in favour of a bigger event later
Microsoft Names Developer Behind The Kelihos Spam Botnet
Microsoft has amended its original Kelihos civil lawsuit to add a Russian security professional as the developer of the spamming malware
Andy Nelson To Take Over As Government CIO
Nelson will take over from Joe Harley at the end of March, while continuing in his role as CIO for the MInistry of Justice
Study: Android To Become Top Developer Platform
Google's Android operating system may become the favoured platform for developers in the next 12 months, according to Ovum
Cloud9 Pushes Toward Mainstream
Cloud9 has launched initiatives to drive its JavaScript developer-as-a-service platform into a mainstream platform
Is the European Commission Helping or Hindering Tech Entrepreneurs?
Techweek Europe asks Drupal inventor Dries Buytaert about his platform, its strong European following and his view on venture capitalism in the European Union
Microsoft’s Business Software, Kinect And Xbox Helped Drive Last Quarter
Although Windows sales remained soft, Microsoft's quarter saw robust business software and entertainment product sales
IT Budgets Dip As Business Priorities Increase
Gartner has forecast a slight dip in IT budgets, despite the growing number of business priorities
Symantec Products’ Source Code Stolen In Unnoticed 2006 Breach
Servers of security specialist Symantec were breached six years ago but the company did not notice source code had been stolen
Online NoSQL Database Launched By Amazon Web Services As DynamoDB
DynamoDB, a cloud-based database, delivers fast and predictable performance with all the scalability you can ask for, claims AWS
Apple Event Rumoured To Showcase Ebook Creation Tools
Apple's New York press event on Thursday will reportedly concentrate on creation tools for ebooks
Silver Ink Solution For Cheaper, Faster Flexible Circuits
University of Illinois researchers have come up with an easily-made, more conductive silver ink that can be used in fine-nozzled inkjets
Symantec Adds Cloud-Based Archiving By Acquiring LiveOffice
Symantec's LiveOffice uses the SaaS-based CloudMerge platform to integrate email services with archiving in the cloud or on-site
Amazon Touts Free Windows Server Processing For EC2 Cloud
Amazon is offering 750 hours of free Windows Server processing per month in its cloud service
Facebook Scraps With Google Over Social Search
Facebook and Google have traded blows over Facebook's exclusion from Google's new 'Search, plus your world' feature
IBM Researchers Store Bit Of Information On Just 12 Atoms
Researchers claim 'remarkable advance' in data storage
TimesTen In-Memory Database Updated By Oracle
In the first update for TimesTen since 2009, Oracle has added parallelised replication and new real-time analytics capabilities
The Majority Of Web Developers Are Moving To HTML5
A survey has found that 75 percent of developers are using, or plan to use HTML5 for app developement
Stratfor CEO Apologises For Data Breach As Site Is Relaunched
Compromised Stratfor has criticised its attackers but at least the firm is back online - although its limited-time free access offer seems to have overburdened its servers
IBM Grabs Top Patent Crown Again And Establishes A New Record
IBM has had a record year for patent grants and once again tops the league with 6,180 US patents in 2011, the first company to achieve over 6,000 in a year
Raspberry Pi Goes Into Production
Britain's Raspberry Pi ARM-based microcomputer, designed for education, is rolling off the production lines -- in China
Nokia Acquires Feature Phone OS Developer Smarterphone
Nokia buys Norweigan developer for undisclosed amount to strengthen its feature phone offering
Cambridge Scientists Reveal Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Researchers have generated a quantum fluid thousands of times larger than usual that acts as a superconductor
Google Gives Chrome Instant Pages, Malware Alerts
With Chrome version 17 Google has added page preloading and security software to alert users of malicious websites