Software

Wikipedia Loses Thousands Of Contributors, Study Claims

A study claims that Wikipedia's volunteer editors are deserting the site in their thousands, but founder Jimmy Wales contests the…

15 years ago

Virtualisation Moves On To Conquer Networks And Desktops

With claimed annual savings of £2500 per server and £78 per desktop, virtualisation is moving on to conquer networks and…

15 years ago

Google And Microsoft Face Fresh Web OS Challenge

TransMedia will launch a fresh version of its Glide operating system with a focus on desktop and Web search

15 years ago

Reports Emerge Of Google Smartphone Running Google Voice

Reports suggest that Google in 2010 will launch an advanced smartphone with a larger-than-usual touch screen and a speedy Qualcomm…

15 years ago

US Senate Asks EC To Roll-Over On MySQL Oracle Concerns

A group of US senators have asked European Commission antitrust regulators to end their investigation of Oracle's acquisition of Sun…

15 years ago

Microsoft Opens Up With Five Web Specs

Redmond has made five web specifications available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement.

15 years ago

European Software Lacks Innovation – Especially SAP

SAP is top of the European software league but has been slated for not innovating - and the rest of…

15 years ago

GE Combating Identity Theft With Plastic Holographic Storage Advance

GE claims it is able to mesh holographic material with the plastic of ID cards to produce an animated image…

15 years ago

EU Telecoms Package Finally Approved

The EU telecoms package has finally been approved, following repeated delays due to the net cut-off row. Now governments need…

15 years ago

Review: Outlook 2010 Gets Up To Speed With Office Suite

With Microsoft Outlook 2010, the mail client has caught up with the rest of the Office suite. eWEEK Labs' tests…

15 years ago

Analysts Dismiss News Corp’s Bing Gamble

Analyst have poured cold water on rumoured plans by News Corp/Microsoft to delist content from Google search

15 years ago

Murdoch-Bing Deal – Treating News Like Oil?

News Corp is reported to be pulling out of Google in exchange for money. The move - if it happens…

15 years ago

First Else Linux Phone Gets Teasing London Launch

You can't touch it yet, but the iPhone-killing entrepeneurs behind this Linux device claim it really is something Else

15 years ago

Microsoft Admits To Zero-Day Flaw In IE 6 And 7

Microsoft confirms the existence of proof-of-concept attack code for a flaw affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7

15 years ago

Microsoft And News Corp Reportedley Allying Against Google

Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are rumoured to be in talks over an agreement that would see News Corp's…

15 years ago

Oracle Bemoans Length Of EC Sun Ruling Then Asks For Extension

Despite arguing vehementally that every day the EC didn't make a ruling on its acquistion of Sun, Oracle has asked…

15 years ago

Spotify Launches Symbian Client

The hugely popular music-streaming service, Spotify, is now available on Nokia handsets as well as other Symbian-based devices

15 years ago

Google Founder Points To Chrome-Android Merger

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that Android and Chrome will likely converge over time into a single operating system

15 years ago

Open Source Poses “Huge Risk” To Organisations

European CIO of GE has said that open source is only useful for internal "playground" uses, despite other parts of…

15 years ago

Climate Researchers Respond To Email Hack

The Climatic Research Institute says that some of the hacked emails may not be genuine while others are being taken…

15 years ago

Climate Change Deniers Quote Hacked University Data

Hacked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit are being used to criticise climate scientists in the…

15 years ago

ISPs Hit Back At Digital Economy Bill

The ISPA has mounted an attack against Lord Mandelson's strategy to deal with illegal file-sharers, laid out in the government's…

15 years ago

Microsoft Responds to Chrome OS By Pushing Windows 7

Microsoft issued an official response to news of Google releasing its Chrome Operating System to open source for developers

15 years ago

Analyst Questions Business Uptake Of Google Chrome OS

IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome Operating system will take some hard selling by Google and its partners to get…

15 years ago

Banned XBox Users Urged To Take Legal Action

A boutique Texas law firm establishes a forum for Microsoft Xbox 360 owners who feel they were unfairly banned from…

15 years ago

Twitter To Launch Paid-For Business Accounts

Twitter has confirmed its plans to launch paid-for corporate accounts, designed to bring in new revenue streams for the micro-blogging…

15 years ago

Call of Duty Carries Recruitment Ad For GCHQ

Gamers playing Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox Live platform will encounter recruitment adverts for a secretive…

15 years ago

10 Things Google Needs To Remember About OS Security

The history of Windows security has shown that desktop operating systems are vulnerable, but there are even more potential attack…

15 years ago

Google Reveals Chrome OS Security Details

After months of extravagant claims, Google has given more detail on why its new operating system is more secure than…

15 years ago

Microsoft Pushes Parallel Programming For The Masses

Parallelising data will be easy enough for ordinary programmers, according to speakers at Microsoft's PDC

15 years ago