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Bing Downtime Blamed On System Error

There were red faces at Microsoft after its search engine, Bing, suffered an embarrassing 30 minute outage on Thursday

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Microsoft ‘Has Acknowledged The Enterprise Role Of Linux’

Three years on from Microsoft's deal with Novell, the real importance is coming through, says Novell's OpenSUSE community manager, Joe…

15 years ago

Skype For SIP Beta Opens Up For Public Use

Businesses now have the opportunity to integrate Skype's VoIP services into their corporate telephone systems, after Skype for SIP opened…

15 years ago

Google Launches Own Free Domain Name System

Google Public DNS, Google's own free Domain Name System, is an attempt to make Web pages load faster at a…

15 years ago

Microsoft’s Battle With EC Could Conclude This Year

Microsoft will have a new European Commission Competition Commissioner in mid-January 2010, as Neelie Kroes steps down to take another…

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EFF Sues US Department Of Justice Over Twitter Searches

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic have sued the Department of Justice and five other government organisations…

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Cisco Pushes On With Tandberg Purchase

Cisco is moving ahead with the $3.4 billion purchase of Tandberg despite not getting control of the desired 90 percent…

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Microsoft Offloads Two Enterprise Products To Rocket

Microsoft is keeping its reasons to itself over the decision to offload two enterprise products to a software development company

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Microsoft Adds Street Imagery To Bing Update

Microsoft is updating its search engine and the new Bing Maps application will now include Streetside imagery similar to Google's…

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IBM Includes Other Vendors’ Kit In Data Centre Containers

IBM follows other vendors into the mobile data centre market - and its shipping containers don't have to hold IBM…

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SAP Delays Maintenance Fee Price Rise

In a bit of good news for its users, SAP has said it will delay the price hike for maintenance…

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Mandelson’s Cut-Off Plan Could Hold Back Innovation

Content producers should be pushed to embrace legitmate downloads or risk undermining the roll-out of UK broadband, says Andrew Donoghue

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Security Company Accepts Updates Unrelated To Windows Black Screen

Prevx has backed off of claims that Microsoft patches are contributing to a Black Screen of Death condition being experienced…

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Microsoft Denies Security Patches Caused Black Screen Of Death

Microsoft is contending that the reports circulating of a Black Screen of Death are not due to the security updates…

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Cisco Extends Deadline For Tandberg Purchase

Cisco pushes back the deadline for deciding whether to push forward with its $3.4 billion (£2bn) bid for video conferencing…

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Microsoft Bows To Blog Pressure Over Pro-China Bing Results

Microsoft claimed to eWEEK that it had fixed a controversial "bug" that made Bing Image Search deliver pro-Chinese-government results in…

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Cisco Helps Amsterdam Get The Dope On Carbon Emission

Networking giant Cisco is helping the city of Amsterdam provide detailed information on carbon emissions to its residents

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Mandelson and IBM Say Analytics Will Make A ‘Hell Of A Lot’ of Jobs

IBM promises a flood of jobs from business analytics, while Lord Mandelson admits to failures in supporting Britain's techies

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Developer Ponders Release of Linux Malware

The lack of malware on Linux may be about to change after a developer admitted he has developed a 'package…

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Government’s New ICT Strategy Could Save £3.2bn

UK public services will be delivered via a government cloud and app store, with an emphasis on green IT and…

15 years ago

Bit.ly Partners With Security Companies To Combat Short URL Hacks

Bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, is partnering with VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to add a new…

15 years ago

Latest Ruby On Rails Web Development Framework Released

The Ruby on Rails community releases Rails 2.3.5. Version 2.3.5 of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework features improved…

15 years ago

IBM Confirms Guardium Security Acquisition

After initially refusing to comment, IBM gives in and confirms reports that it is acquiring Guardium

15 years ago

Starent Settles Lawsuits Blocking Cisco Purchase

Starent Networks, which Cisco Systems wants to buy for $2.9 billion (£1.8bn), settles one of several lawsuits seeking to block…

15 years ago

New Competition Commissioner Won’t Change Oracle Sun Case

The EC is due to make a decision on whether to sanction Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun on 27…

15 years ago

Sun Adds ‘Teleportation’ to Virtualisation Software

Sun has updated its virtualisation software that enables users to move live virtual machines between disparate physical hosts

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IBM Posed To Acquire Database Startup Guardium

Big Blue is reportedly about to spend millions in order to acquire database security startup Guardium

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US Air Force Upgrading Playstation 3 Linux Cluster

The US airforce is buying thousands of PS3s as part of a move to expand its supercomputing project, but there…

15 years ago

Dell Modifies Chrome OS For Mini 10v Netbook

A Dell employee has gotten Chromium OS, the code behind Chrome OS that Google released to open source, to run…

15 years ago

Web Apps And ‘Windows As A Runtime’ Open New OS Doors

Two trends are working to expand the viability not only of Linux but of Mac OS X, Solaris and other…

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