Software

HTML5 Specifications Due In 2014

The World Wide Web Consortium has promised that final specification for HTML5 will arrive in 2014

14 years ago

Fujitsu Data Centre Gets Uptime Gold Certification

A North London Fujitsu data centre gets the first gold tier 3 badge in Europe from the Uptime Institute

14 years ago

Amazon Buys Tesco’s Dublin Shed For Cloud Services

Amazon has bought a new building for another Dublin-based facility in response to its growing cloud services

14 years ago

London Stock Exchange Moves To Linux Platform

Falling behind and under potential cyber-attack, LSE has made a move to Novell's open source SuSE Linux

14 years ago

Ingres VectorWise Database ‘Smashes’ Benchmark

A forthcoming version of Ingres' VectorWise analytic database has broken a benchmark record by a big margin

14 years ago

Lessons Learnt As IBM’s Watson Wins At Jeopardy

The gameshow-playing supercomputer Watson trounced humans as it romped all over the Jeopardy board

14 years ago

Still All Go For MeeGo At Intel Despite Nokia Doubts

Intel affirmed MeeGo support at Mobile World Congress, with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Asus and Acer backing the OS

14 years ago

Google Adds Website Blocking Extension For Chrome

Chrome users now have the ability to block certain websites from their Google.com web search results

14 years ago

Twitter Boss Dismisses Acquisition Talk

The boss of Twitter has dismissed reports that Google and Facebook are seeking acquire the microblog service

14 years ago

MWC: Wholesale Application Community Launches First Products

WAC, the operators' alternative to Google's app store, has launched its first apps and store fronts

14 years ago

MWC: Acer Launches Iconia Smart Phone

the Iconia Smart is a phone, but it's part of Acer's Iconia range of Android tablets - which also includes…

14 years ago

MWC: RIM Adds LTE To PlayBook Tablets

Planned Wi-Fi and WiMax versions of the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablets will be joined by LTE and HSPA+ versions

14 years ago

Microsoft and Nokia Deal: Opportunity For Developers

Nokia adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Phone as the platform of choice for its smartphones is a big opportunity for developers

14 years ago

Britain’s TweetDeck Poised For US Takeover

Made-in-Britain TweetDeck, the most popular Twitter client, is reportedly being bought by an American company

14 years ago

Sony Ericsson Launches Xperia Playstation Phone

Move along, business readers! The Android-based Xperia Play is a gamer's phone from Sony Ericsson

14 years ago

Three Rolls Out BlackBerry 6 OS Update

The BlackBerry 6 OS update is now available for 3's smartphone users to download

14 years ago

MWC: Samsung Updates Galaxy Tablets And Phones

Samsung opened Mobile World Congress with the big-screen Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Honeycomb tablet, and the enterprise-friendly Galaxy S II…

14 years ago

Twitter Redesigns Android App Amid Growing Uptake

Twitter has updated its Android app after the number of people using it doubled in the last two months

14 years ago

Opera Browser Now Used By 100 Million Mobile Users

The mobile version of the Opera Software browser is now being used by more than 100 million users

14 years ago

Nokia Reshuffle Will Cut Jobs and Research

Nokia's change to Windows Phone will be painful, but operators and employees are supporting it, said CEO Stephen Elop.

14 years ago

Elop Asks Operators To Support Symbian Fade-Out

Operators need a Windows Mobile ecosystem so badly, they should support Symbian while it emerges, says Nokia CEO

14 years ago

MWC: LTE And Tablets Will Lead Agenda

Tablets will get more attention than smartphones, and LTE will see off WiMax, at Mobile World Congress, says GSMA

14 years ago

No Tweets From Twitter About Acquisition Rumour

Both Google and Facebook allegedly discussing buying Twitter to gain the 200 million social comms user base

14 years ago

Cisco Telepresence Protocol Adopted By Polycom

Polycom is adding Cisco's Telepresence Interoperability Protocol standard to its UC Intelligent Core platform

14 years ago

Yahoo Preps Customised, Mobile Livestand Newspaper

Yahoo announces Livestand, a digital newspaper tailored for tablets and smartphones to compete with The Daily

14 years ago

Gartner Says Symbian Still Leads Smartphone Race

Gartner research has found that Symbian is still the best selling smartphone OS, ahead of Android

14 years ago

Firefox 4 Beta Gains Do Not Track Option

Mozilla has added the 'Do Not Track' option it touted last month to ensure browsing privacy for users

14 years ago

Whistleblower Sticks Label Firm With Licence Payment

A label-making company has paid out nearly £25,000 after a whistleblower told the BSA of unlicensed software

14 years ago

New INQ ‘Facebook Phones’ Are Based On Android

Facebook and INQ use Google Android to serve Facebook users' online needs

14 years ago

Facebook Exploit App Toolkits Going Cheap

Websense uncovered a toolkit for building rogue "Who Tracks You" Facebook applications selling for £15

14 years ago