Software

Apple Blocks Hackintoshes With Snow Leopard Update

Apple released Mac OS X v.10.6.2, its newest update to Snow Leopard, with a variety of tweaks to everything from…

15 years ago

Google Go-es Ahead With New Programming Language

Google has introduced a new programming language, known as Go, that is aimed at being fast, productive and fun for…

15 years ago

LinkedIn And Twitter Partner Up For Status Updates

LinkedIn and Twitter have partnered up so that users can push their LinkedIn status updates out to their Twitter accounts

15 years ago

Revenue From Hosted Office Apps Lags Behind CRM

Spending on CRM and collaboration tools is growing but office tools aren't attracting the same revenues, according to Gartner

15 years ago

Cisco Steps Up To Google, Microsoft And IBM

Guido Jouret, CTO of Cisco's emerging technologies group, explains how Cisco solutions such as Pulse, Show and Share are different…

15 years ago

Lisbon Treaty Will Break Down National Barriers To E-Commerce

Due to pass into law in early December, the Lisbon Treaty should help make online transactions between countries simpler, according…

15 years ago

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Released

Microsoft announces during the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin that Exchange Server 2010 is now in general release

15 years ago

Google Asks For Delay In Book Copyright Case

Google and the authors and publishers with which it is trying to settle a five-year copyright feud ask the judge…

15 years ago

Novell Pushes Benefits Of Microsoft Protection

Microsoft and Novell celebrated the third year of their interoperability agreement at a conference in Seattle

15 years ago

OpenOffice Launches Mouse With 18 Buttons

OpenOffice.org has copied an idea from the gaming community, after launching a mouse with programmable buttons...18 in total

15 years ago

Firefox Celebrates Fifth Birthday

Firefox is five years old today, and is celebrating the fact that almost a quarter of Internet users are now…

15 years ago

Companies Still Backward On Flexible Working Says Collaboration Specialist

You don't have to be locked in a cubicle for 60 hours a week to complete your technological work or…

15 years ago

eBay Settles Skype Lawsuit

eBay settles lawsuits with Joltid and Joost in a £1.13b deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed…

15 years ago

Ex-MySQL Boss Says EC Would Be Wrong To Oppose Sun Deal

Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says "there's no rational argument" for preventing Oracle from acquiring all of Sun

15 years ago

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Due Next Week

Mozilla's open source competitor to Microsoft Outlook is to be updated with a new version of Thunderbird expected next week

15 years ago

Enterprises Fear SaaS Will Create Software Licensing Issues

Most UK businesses are concerned about introducing virtualisation, cloud computing and SaaS into their organisations over fears of complex licensing…

15 years ago

Hands On: Nokia N900 – A Good Cheap Option?

Nokia may have started from the idea of a pocket computer, but this is a geek-friendly Linux smartphone that straddles…

15 years ago

EC To Object To Oracle’s Sun Acquisition, Say Reports

The EC is likely to make a formal objection to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, because of the inclusion of…

15 years ago

Industry Must Tackle IPv4 Depletion

The IT industry has ignored the availability of IPv6 addresses for too long at the risk of adding unnecessary risk…

15 years ago

Spammers And Botnets Change Tactics

Internet villains are learning from their mistakes, and now they can come back quickly even when their ISPs are shut…

15 years ago

Tech and Internet Use Not Isolating People

The idea that the Internet is responsible for a lack of socialisation and the increasing isolation of people has been…

15 years ago

Neon Updates Mainframe Migration Tool

Neon Enterprise Software has upgraded its tool that allows workloads running on IBM Mainframe to be moved to a cheaper…

15 years ago

Security Researchers Uncover SSL Vulnerability

Tech companies are rushing to patch the SSL security protocol following the discovery of a potentially "devastating" flaw

15 years ago

Microsoft Takes Teachers To Brazil

Amid calls from local authorities to use open source software and cut costs, Microsoft is holding a teachers' conference in…

15 years ago

Siemens Integrates Twitter Into Communications App

At the VoiceCon 2009 show in San Francisco, officials with the Siemens Enterprise Communications Group will show off the upcoming…

15 years ago

Parallels Takes Fight To VMware With Desktop 5

Parallels continues to take on virtualisation giant VMware after it launched Desktop 5 for Mac

15 years ago

Microsoft Invests £60K In Open Source Apache Foundation

Microsoft may have helped its status with the open-source community by reiterating its pledge to deliver $100,000 (£60,700) to the…

15 years ago

Cisco Believes Tandberg Offer Is Fair

Cisco is playing hard ball after an executive said that its takeover offer of $3 billion for Tandberg is a…

15 years ago

Sony Ericsson Launches Xperia X10 Android Smartphone

Sony Ericsson has taken the wraps off its first Google Android-based device, the Xperia X10, which will go on sale…

15 years ago

Data Centres: Does Reliability Clash With Efficiency?

New data centres are more efficient than their predecessors, but they have to be reliable too. Peter Judge asks -…

15 years ago