Software

Google Users Experience Another Mail Outage

The search giant's hosted email service suffered another temporary glitch

16 years ago

Open-Source Leaders Call For Calm Over TomTom

Is Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom a shot across the bow at Linux and open-source software? Open-source experts Bruce Perens and…

16 years ago

UK Recession Hits IT Jobs Hardest

Demand for IT staff is falling significantly faster than the overall drop in the UK as a whole

16 years ago

Ten Years of Worms Have Left Email Security In Tattters

In 1999 the Melissa worm announced a new kind of attack. Ten years later, the security industry is still catching…

16 years ago

Sun: Recession Driving Green IT, Virtualization Uptake

Interest in technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization and green IT is on the rise, according to Sun CTO Greg…

16 years ago

CeBIT: Microsoft Launches Cloud Tools For Mobile Workers

The software giant has repackaged some of its hosted productivity applications for mobile workers

16 years ago

UK Start-up Offers Oracle Carbon Metrics

Zogix helps companies extract green data from existing applications

16 years ago

Microsoft Tests Kumo Search Service

Staff at Microsoft are testing a new, online search tool within the company. But could it beat Google? And will…

16 years ago

SAP Makes Green Promises

The software giant has announced a product to manage customers environmental impact, and made a promise to cut its own…

16 years ago

Debian 5.0 Lenny: Good For Servers

Named for a Toy Story character, the new Debian is a serious contender for open source server deployments

16 years ago

Can Community-Source Get Apps Built In A Recession?

Community source development can save money and reduce vendor lock-in, by combining the best of the traditional and open-source development…

16 years ago

ERP Software Vendor Makes “Eco” Tools

Management add-on helps measure the whole company's environmental impact - and comply with legislation

16 years ago

OpenSUSE 11.1 Vies for Desktop Linux Supremacy

Novell's OpenSUSE 11.1 has desktop features and an enviable community involvement strategy for tapping community involvement, but still a few…

16 years ago

Logica Denies Price War, HP Disagrees

IT services company Lgica says that customers will still favour quality over price, even in a recession. But HP's UK…

16 years ago

Beware Of Software Bearing Gifts

If your applications aren't behaving the way you expect, the problem may not be where you think. Peter Judge found…

16 years ago

Google outage was due to “overload”

A two hour blackout of Google mail was blamed on "data centre overload" and new code bugs, by the company's…

16 years ago

UK Government To Save £600m With Open Source

New support for open source from the UK government could lead to big savings as long as proprietary vendors don't…

16 years ago

Cloud services ‘pose legal risks’

Outages are only part of the problem for services on the web, says a City Law firm, warning cloud customers…

16 years ago

Polycom Pushes High-End Video Conferencing

Video conferencing specialist Polycom says its HD-ready system, will boost take-up of telepresence, and cut business travel, but  analysts warn…

16 years ago

Gmail Failure: Reality Bites for Cloud Computing

Update: Gmail is back, after a two-hour outage. The company has not yet said how many people were affected, but…

16 years ago

Citrix Offers Control For Microsoft Virtualization

Citrix is offering a management product for Microsoft's Hyper-V, and a free version of its own Citrix XenServe, in a…

16 years ago

Recession Creates New IT Outsourcing Destinations

Global recession is producing new locations for oursourcing, according to research - but companies should appreciate the risks involved

16 years ago

Microsoft takes money back from sacked workers

Microsoft is asking recently laid-off employees to return some of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid, according to…

16 years ago

Virtualization Set to Grow 43% in 2009

The economic slowdown and important developments in this market segment have allowed virtualized systems to grow at a strong rhythm.

16 years ago

Can Sustainable IT Avoid False Accounting?

Now the word is out: there is money to be made in sustainable IT, we can expect the usual feeding…

16 years ago

UK Government to cut IT budget by billions

The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor…

16 years ago

Ghosts in the machine help E.ON cut server costs

The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices

16 years ago

“No-fuss” Linux net-top updated

French computer maker claims solid-state, low power desktops are the future

16 years ago

Facebook SupportsOpenID

Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, joining Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo in a big to to…

16 years ago

IBM Puts Zend PHP stack on System i

IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM…

16 years ago