Software

Oracle Makes MySQL 5.5 Database Generally Available

Despite previous fears over Oracle's commitment to MySQL, the company has made the new version of the open source database…

14 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Named As Time’s Person of the Year 2010

Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been named Time’s Person of the Year for 2010

14 years ago

Facebook Crimes Soar Over 100,000 In Five Years

Facebook is a hotbed of crime, linked to 100,000 calls to police in the UK, according to a report

14 years ago

WikiLeaks Judge Allows Tweeting In Court

The judge who granted bail to Julian Assange yesterday allowed reporters to tweet from the courtroom

14 years ago

What Can We Learn From Gawker’s Stupidity?

Gawker was stupid to run with poor security and antagonise hackers, says P. J. Connolly. Now he is picking up…

14 years ago

NSS Says IExplorer Malware Protection Leads Rivals

A test claims Microsoft IE8 and IE9 have boosted malware protection beyond Google, Apple and others

14 years ago

Symantec’s Machine Learning Prevents Data Loss

Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11 will feature "vector machine learning" to help define sensitive data policies

14 years ago

Google Confirms Zetawire Purchase For NFC Software

Google has confirmed the acquisition of NFC specialist Zetawire, as the search engine giant takes the fight to Apple and…

14 years ago

Nokia E7 Delayed Until Early 2011

Nokia has postponed shipping the E7 model until early next year, despite the peak end of shopping season

14 years ago

Apple Disables Jailbreak Detection API In iOS 4.2

Jailbreak Detection API disappears from Apple’s iOS 4.2 less than six months after it appeared

14 years ago

US Investigation Of WikiLeaks’ Assange Is Misguided

The US government has no business investigating Julian Assange for publishing secret diplomatic messages, says Wayne Rash

14 years ago

Apple Accepts Native Google Latitude For iPhone

Google has released a native, multitasking version of Latitude for iOS 4 amidst ongoing brinksmanship between Apple and Google

14 years ago

Gawker Data Breach Results In Huge Data Theft

Gawker is warning users to change their username and password details after its systems were hacked

14 years ago

EC IT Head Hits Back At ‘Proprietary Software’ Claim

The IT boss of the EC has denied a claim that its software contract favours proprietary vendors

14 years ago

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Tab Luxury Edition

Samsung shows off a 'luxury' version , and plans to ship 1.5 million Galaxy tabs before the end of 2010

14 years ago

Current Affairs And Football Top 2010 Tweet List

Twitter has revealed that news stars such as Paul the psychic octopus have topped its list of tweets for 2010

14 years ago

Twitter In London? Well, Why Not?

David Cameron turned estate agent and tried selling Twitter a London address. Peter Judge hopes he succeeds

14 years ago

Twitter Considers ‘Silicon Roundabout’ For Euro HQ

Twitter is considering London's East End for the site of a European office

14 years ago

Google Gives Away Nexus S To Twitter Contest Winners

Google is giving away ten Nexus S smartphones via Twitter to the winners of daily puzzles

14 years ago

Facebook’s Zuckerberg To Donate Fortune To Charity

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and 16 other billionaires have signed up to Bill Gates's Giving Pledge

14 years ago

Microsoft Exchange Data Cloud Backup Utility From Google

Google Message Continuity cloud backup preserves the data integrity of Microsoft Exchange if it goes down

14 years ago

Apache Blasts Oracle As It Resigns From JCP

Apache Software Foundation quits the Java Community Process over Java technology compatibility kit row

14 years ago

Andy Rubin Claims 300,000 Daily Android Activations

More than 300,000 Google Android phones are switched on each day, according to Android creator Andy Rubin

14 years ago

CESG Advises Government Upgrade To Windows 7

A branch of the security services has advised the government to upgrade to Windows 7

14 years ago

Twitter Denies De-Trending WikiLeaks As Visa Takes A Pasting

Twitter has stated it is not blocking Wikileaks from its Trends list. Elsewhere the DDoS attacks continue

14 years ago

Why Hacktivists Are Fighting The WikiLeaks War

Most hackers work in secret for money. The hacktivists punishing WikiLeaks' enemies are different, says Noa Bar Yosef

14 years ago

Ubuntu One Beta With Windows Support: Review

The beta release of the Windows client for Canonical's Ubuntu One service is off to a solid start, but work…

14 years ago

EC Calls For End To Mobile Roaming Charges

The European Commission wants to get rid of international roaming charges within the EU by 2015

14 years ago

SAP Sends Second Wave Into Collaboration Market

Though Google Wave failed, SAP hopes StreamWork will successfully carry real-time collaboration into the enterprise

14 years ago

Silver Surfers Are Growing, But Need More Help Online

Ofcom says the over-65s are gradually coming online, but charities want more help for the offline generation

14 years ago