Software

Windows 7 Sales Rid Microsoft Of Vista Curse

Windows 7 still trails behind Windows XP, but 350 million sales will definitely erase the bad taste left by Vista,…

14 years ago

Itanium Users Focus Anger On Cynical Oracle

Users of Itanium servers, angry at Oracle’s decision to stop software development, are seeking alternatives

14 years ago

Regulator says Microsoft Must Sell Back Novell Patents

US Department of Justice rules that Microsoft will acquire licences for Novell patents rather than ownership

14 years ago

More Companies Buying Into BI, Gartner Claims

Business intelligence and analytics tools are increasingly being seen as a way to beat the recession

14 years ago

Library Vandal Gets Face-booked By The Police

A Portsmouth half-wit denied that he flooded a Portsmouth public library - until his Facebook log was produced

14 years ago

Google Takes $5M Hit In Bedrock Linux Patent Case

Google must pay Bedrock for infringing on Linux core patents which may also hit Android and other distributions

14 years ago

Most Web Apps Fail Security Audit Prior To Deployment

Web apps are not being developed with security in mind and security vendors seem to be the big offenders

14 years ago

Windows For IBM System z Mainframes This Year

IBM will launch blade servers running Windows on its zEnterprise mainframes by the end of this year

14 years ago

Phones4u To Ship Samsung Galaxy S II On 27 April

Release date of Samsung Galaxy S II Android super-phone brought forward, but only for Phones4u

14 years ago

Yahoo Is Newest Member Of Linux Foundation

Yahoo has announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation to better support the Linux community

14 years ago

ISPs Lose Judicial Review Of Digital Economy Act

BT and TalkTalk have failed in their bid to have the Digital Economy Act's copyright measures ruled illegal

14 years ago

Twitter In Talks To Buy Tweetdeck

Twitter is said to be close to buying British Twitter client Tweetdeck

14 years ago

Android v iPhone: Not A Fight To The Death

If you think either Android or iPhone can eliminate the competition, you are missing the point, says Clint Boulton

14 years ago

Greenpeace Praises Facebook’s Solar Effort

Facebook gets a cheer for using a bit of solar energy, but Greenpace isn't satisfied yet

14 years ago

UAE Restricts BlackBerry Use For Smaller Businesses

In the Uniated Arab Emirates, only larger organisations will be allowed BlackBerry enterprise security

14 years ago

Microsoft Opens Up Office 365 Beta

Microsoft's cloud based Office package is now ready for users to try: does it match Google Apps?

14 years ago

Microsoft To Use Windows Update To Push IE9

Redmond will use Windows Update to push out Internet Explorer 9 and rapidly increase adoption rates

14 years ago

Google Faces Android Complaints In South Korea

Two companies are complaining that Google is blocking their mobile search apps on Android

14 years ago

Oracle Shifts OpenOffice.org To Full Open Source

Oracle has said it will turn the OpenOffice.org office suite into a fully community-based project

14 years ago

MoD Leaks Nuclear Sub Secrets In Cut-And-Paste Gaffe

Nuclear submarine safety details were blacked out wrongly by Ministry of Defence staff

14 years ago

Oracle Director’s Flash-Mob Gay Rights Protest

Oracle senior director Paul Shetler organised an 800-strong gay rights flash mob outside a London pub

14 years ago

Oracle Readies 73 Bug Fixes For Critical Patch Update

Oracle is to fix 73 vulnerabilities, some critical, across its product portfolio in its quarterly update

14 years ago

T-Mobile And Orange Play Down Charity Charge Jibes

Everything Everywhere drops charges for texted charity donations but claims it did not usually collect anyway

14 years ago

Turnkey Ubuntu-Based Linux for Amazon Cloud: Review

The Turnkey Linux service runs on Amazon Web Services and is good for test driving cloud apps

14 years ago

HP Adds Real-Time Threat Analysis For Developers

HP Fortify's application security analysis tool can discover software vulnerability attacks in real time

14 years ago

IBM Commuter App Could Unravel Travel Tangles

IBM researchers are applying predictive analysis algorithms to dispel commuter traffic jams

14 years ago

Ailing MeeGo Finds Major Chinese Backing

China's Tencent has announced an interest in helping Intel bring MeeGo to fruition

14 years ago

Future Business Apps Could Use Kinect UI

Natural user interfaces derived from Kinect will boost productivity, says Microsoft Research

14 years ago

Each PC Holds £432 Of Unused Software

The UK could save £1.7 billion a year by reclaiming unused software licences, says 1E

14 years ago

WordPress Admits Hackers Stole Source Code

Hackers have stolen “sensitive bits” of source code after accessing several WordPress.com servers

14 years ago