Software

Windows 8 Will Be In The Cloud, Whatever Ballmer Says

Microsoft is working on Windows 8 - and it will be heavily based on the cloud, whatever Steve Ballmer may…

15 years ago

Dell, Salesforce Buddy Up For Cloud Offerings

Dell and Salesforce.com have partnered up to offer certified solutions for small and medium businesses, worried about taking on CRM…

15 years ago

Ubuntu 9.10 Beta Review: Likely To Remain Desktop Favourite

The beta of Ubuntu 9.10, otherwise known as Karmic Koala, contains the expected core open-source updates, but includes a number…

15 years ago

Avaya Unveils Virtualised Unified Communication Offering

Avaya has launched its virtualised unified communications solution Aura, and is touting a 75 percent reduction in hardware, power and…

15 years ago

Twitter And Wikipedia Smash Pollution Gagging Order

An attempt to prevent media discussion of waste-dumping in Cote d'Ivoire by Trafigura was broken by a mass Twitter campaign

15 years ago

YouTube Serves Billion Views A Day

CFO Patrick Pichette, during the recent Q3 2009 Google earnings call, reported that "YouTube will be very profitable in the…

15 years ago

Twitter 2.0: Is the World Ready?

The hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter is undergoing a number of big changes. But is the world, already struggling to…

15 years ago

Facebook And Twitter Uptake Continues To Soar

Usage of websites such as Facebook and Twitter is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate, not just amongst the…

15 years ago

Consumers Are Leading Companies to The Cloud

Rentokil's adoption of cloud-based email is significant, because it shows that organisations have to treat their members like consumers, says…

15 years ago

Rentokil Becomes Google’s Biggest Cloud Customer

Rentokil to put 35,000 users on Google Apps cloud email in offices and washrooms, by the end of 2010

15 years ago

Ad-Supported Office 2010 Bundled In New PCs

Users will have access to a free, stripped down version of the productivity suite, Office Starter 2010, with the option…

15 years ago

Stallman slams Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation

It may come as no surprise to some that GNU founder Richard Stallman has launched a stinging attack on Microsoft's…

15 years ago

Microsoft’s Ozzie Launches Social Networking Lab

Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie has decided that "social" is the way of Microsoft's software future, announcing the creation…

15 years ago

Lord Carter: 2Mbps Broadband Is Like The Minimum Wage

The government's universal broadband provision may be slower than we'd like, but it's an essential part of social inclusion, said…

15 years ago

CIOs Frown on Social Networking At Work

A new report shows CIOs think you should be working on company time and not goofing off on Facebook, Twitter…

15 years ago

What if Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation Is On The Level?

After a bruising summer of fighting between Microsoft and open source activists, not many people took Microsoft's open source body…

15 years ago

Phones4U Gets Windows Mobile – But With Only 60 Apps

Phones4U will be selling phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 - but UK users can only download 60 apps

15 years ago

Open Source Enthusiast To Advise Conservatives

Tom Steinberg, co-founder of mySociety, the site behind online tools such as TheyWorkForYou.com has agreed to help the Conservative party

15 years ago

Windows Mobile 6.5: Microsoft’s Cunning Plan?

So far, Microsoft has screwed up on mobile. Will a hyped interim release, and a small, expensive appstore help against…

15 years ago

Microsoft Links Hotmail Leak To Phishing Attack

Microsoft confirmed thousands of Hotmail customers had their usernames and passwords posted recently on a third-party site as a result…

15 years ago

US Bloggers Must Declare Paid Endorsements

The Federal Trade Commission revises rules for advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with…

15 years ago

Ballmer: Windows 7 Will Save £100 A Year

The cloud is here - within limits - said CEO Steve Ballmer, in a London visit to promote Windows 7…

15 years ago

Ballmer Admits Windows Licensing “Gotchas”

Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans…

15 years ago

“Minority Reports” Of Apple Tablet Persist

Latest reports say device has more in common with the gee-whiz touch-screens used by Tom Cruise in the 2002 film…

15 years ago

Compliance May Hinder Cloud Early Adopters, Warns Provider

Users may have to choose which apps to put in the cloud, and some should wait till their industry accepts…

15 years ago

Savvis Says Spirit Will Convince Cloud Skeptics

With the Spirit  cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad,  Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask…

15 years ago

EC Wants e-Commerce To Flow Like “Oil In Broadband Pipelines”

Digital services must be Europe-wide says commissioner Vivian Reding

15 years ago

Microsoft Launches Online Health Data Tools

The My Health Info beta service offers tools and widgets with which to organise and monitor health information stored in…

15 years ago

Google Beefs Up Search In Response To Bing

Google boosts its Search Options to let users search results by past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer…

15 years ago

Gartner: Cloud Computing Will Replace IT Departments

But internal tech staff will be kept busy on the roll-out of internal IT private cloud technology for the near…

15 years ago