Software

Top Glitches Played Havoc With Reputations in 2011

As the year winds to a close, Susan Chadwick, of Edge Testing Solutions explores the minefield that is risk-based software…

13 years ago

Schneider Electric Buys Viridity To Increase Power Management Offerings

With Viridity, Schneider Electric is the latest UPS hardware maker to add power management to its product portfolio

13 years ago

Yahoo Leans on Facebook For New Users

Yahoo is relying on rival Facebook to add social activity, bringing in a younger audience, and boosting ad revenues

13 years ago

Google To Pay Mozilla £577m For Search Deal

Google is to pay Mozilla a staggering £192m every year for the recently agreed Firefox search deal

13 years ago

Oracle, Salesforce Dominate CRM Market

According to analyst house IDC, Oracle and Salesforce.com dominated the CRM market during 2011

13 years ago

Mozilla Patches HTML5 Bugs In Firefox 9

Mozilla has fixed six vulnerabilities in its Firefox 9 web browser, two of which concern issues with HTML5

13 years ago

Self-Healing Electronics Breakthrough Promises Device Longevity

US researchers have created a 'self-healing' circuit board, a development that could have big implications for space travel

13 years ago

Facebook, Twitter Dominate Social Networking Growth

Bad news for Google+ after comScore found that Facebook and Twitter dominate the growth of social networking

13 years ago

Google Claims Over 700k Android Activations Daily

Google's Android is activated on over 700,000 mobile devices every day, according to its creator Andy Rubin

13 years ago

Database And Systems Management Markets Grew In 2011

The global database and systems management markets grew in 2011defspite a weak economy, according to IDC

13 years ago

Twitter To Open Source Encrypted Text Software For Android

Twitter has made the source code of Whisper Systems'TextSecure software available on its GitHub.

13 years ago

Employees’ Emails Stolen In US Chamber Of Commerce Breach

The Chinese government may have breached the US Chamber of Commerce and stolen Asian policy information

13 years ago

IBM Takes Its Big Data Analytics To Academia

IBM's programme to spread its business analytics products to universities embraces Scotland and Northern Ireland

13 years ago

Facebook Plans To Include Adverts In Users’ Newsfeeds

Facebook is to ring in the new year by beginning to insert adverts into users newsfeeds and updates

13 years ago

Google Signs Mozilla Search Deal For Firefox

Google and Mozilla have reached agreement on a new three year search deal for the Firefox web browser

13 years ago

Nuance Buys Vlingo As Voice Recognition War Grows

As Apple and Google square up over voice recognition, Nuance is to acquire Vlingo despite being sued by the company

13 years ago

Oracle Shocks Investors After Missing Forecasts

Oracle has sent a tremor through Wall Street after it missed analyst forecasts, causing its shares to plunge

13 years ago

Army’s Lax Security Highlighted In US WikiLeaks Hearing

The theme of the pre-trial testimony of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is that US military security was lax

13 years ago

Oracle Seeks Early Trial Against Android To Stop Developer Drift

Oracle has asked for a trial as early as January in its case against Google, because Java is losing ground…

13 years ago

Adobe Updates PhoneGap With Windows Phone Support

Open source mobile development framework, PhoneGap, has been updated to support Windows Phone

13 years ago

Salesforce Buys Rypple To Counter SuccessFactors

Salesforce.com has responded to SAP's bid for SuccessFactors with the cheaper acquisition of Rypple

13 years ago

MPs Oppose Social Media Riot Shutdown

A committee of MPs have said social networks should not be closed or blocked during civil disorder

13 years ago

VMware Brings Windows To Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire users can now run Microsoft Windows thanks to the latest virtualisation software from VMware

13 years ago

Christmas Hackers And The Sanity Clause

New devices and first-time users provide the ideal mix for Christmas exploits so take a secure grip from the start,…

13 years ago

Hillingdon Googles For Business Apps Cloud

The London Borough of Hillingdon is migrating its 3,500 staff to the Google Apps for Business Cloud service

13 years ago

Private Mail Used For Business Now Subject To FOI Searches

The ICO has released new guidance stating that private emails and texts may be subject to Freedom of Information Act…

13 years ago

IBM’s Top 5 Innovations Will Change Your Life Within 5 Years

The 2011 predictions cover green power, mind-reading machines, desirable junk mail, DNA passwords, and digital profusion

13 years ago

Novell-Microsoft WordPerfect Lawsuit Ends In Mistrial

An antitrust case rooted in the mid-1990s has floundered after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision

13 years ago

Healthy EU And US Data Protection For Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft says its Office 365 cloud platform now conforms to European Union and HIPAA privacy regulations

13 years ago

Facebook Launches Timeline-based Profile Redesign

Users can try out the Timeline of their Facebook life before its official release next week

13 years ago