Software

Internet Explorer 8 – More Secure Than Firefox And Chrome?

Microsoft may get criticised for security issues, but IE8 just came top in a security study, beating Firefox, Chrome, Safari…

15 years ago

Government: Smart Ticketing Could Save Cash and Carbon

Electronic tickets could help cut costs and ease congestion but privacy campaigners have concerns about using IT to track passengers

15 years ago

MySpace Buys iLike Music Service

MySpace buys Facebook friend iLike, a social music service that lets people make music recommendations, share playlists and receive personalised…

15 years ago

Email Bug Reported In iPhone 3.0

An apparent bug in Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 software allows users to find e-mails even after they have been deleted…

15 years ago

Microsoft Files Motion To Block Word Ruling

Microsoft has filed a motion to stay a court ruling that could pull Microsoft Word from store shelves within 60…

15 years ago

Recession Forces IT Budgets Down By 4 Percent

In a survey of enterprise and SMB IT officials in North America and Europe, Forrester Research analysts find that companies…

15 years ago

Microsoft Hit By Two More Texas Lawsuits

Microsoft's legal troubles continue with two new lawsuits filed by smaller companies alleging patent infringement, both in East Texas

15 years ago

Red Hat Compares Itself To Facebook or Wikipedia

Jim Whitehurst says that Red Hat is "defining a whole new business model... Open source is nothing but a specific…

15 years ago

Google Wave Could Change The Way We Work

t's just a developer preview for now, but it's got a new metaphor for collaboration, and is highly customisable. Jason…

15 years ago

Google Wave Review: Not A Rave – Yet

The developer preview of Google Wave has some rough edges, but it shows potential. Clever developers could use this for…

15 years ago

RockMelt Browser Could Boost Facebook Revenue

A Forrester Research analyst suggests Marc Andreessen's RockMelt browser could open up new advertising opportunities for Facebook

15 years ago

Google Developing Caffeine Storage System

This new storage system will include more diagnostic and historic data and autonomic software

15 years ago

Research Points To Banality Of Twitter

A report from Pear Research finds 40 percent of tweets on the popular social networking site Twitter fall into the…

15 years ago

ODF safe from Microsoft / i4i Lawsuit

Open Document FormatĀ  uses different technology and so is immune to the lawsuit that struck Microsoft, according to experts

15 years ago

IBM: Europe’s Roads Can Be Smarter and Greener

The IT giant says that technology can help solve some of Europe's traffic problems but there are also privacy issues…

15 years ago

Bing Must Move On From Casual Relationships

Microsoft and Yahoo need to convert casual searchers to full-timer users if they wish to take search engine market share…

15 years ago

Microsoft Will Replace Entourage With Outlook on Mac

Microsoft will replace Entourage with Outlook for Mac in its next version of Microsoft Office for Mac

15 years ago

Microsoft Word Ruling Could Threaten Open Source

The lawsuit could also present trouble down the road for the XML-based OpenDocument Format, for spreadsheets, word-processing and other productivity…

15 years ago

Microsoft Must Judge Word Mobile By Google’s Efforts

Microsoft is partnering with Nokia to bring Office Mobile and other applications to Symbian OS mobile phones

15 years ago

Security Researchers Harness 1 Million Linux Virtual Machines

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated the ability to run more than 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines,…

15 years ago

Facebook Accidently Launches Stripped-Down Version

Facebook Lite, a stripped-down, speedier version of the social network, was accidentally launched to users who couldn't access the link

15 years ago

Nokia And Microsoft Partner On Mobile Office

Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership on 12 August that will see the rollout of a mobile version of Microsoft…

15 years ago

Call For Web Ideas To Improve Democracy

mySociety is looking for input on how it can use the Internet to give the UK more information about its…

15 years ago

No “Green Shoots” Yet For IT Spending

But the the decline in IT budgets may have bottomed out according to analysts

15 years ago

Ten Things You Need To Know About Google Caffeine

Google's sudden invitation to Web users to try out a new sandbox search engine it is calling Caffeine is a…

15 years ago

Twitter Hit By Another DDOS Attack

Twitter experiences another distributed-denial-of-service attack, knocking out the microblogging service for a time

15 years ago

Facebook To Acquire FriendFeed

Facebook aims to plug its real-time content gap by buying FriendFeed, a social network aggregator that lets users create custom…

15 years ago

Suse Studio Review – DIY Linux

Make your own made to measure Linux distribution with this versatile online tool

15 years ago

Swiss Government Has Microsoft “Dependency”

Open source advocates claim that a Swiss government department must open its doors to non-proprietary software

15 years ago

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac: Service Pack 2 – Review

Disappointingly minor changes in this update, mainly focussed on Keynote software may disappoint some users

15 years ago