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It's Firefox's reputation for superior security, rapid patching of security holes and its multitude of browser extentions that has allowed it to win converts among corporate and personal Web users
If your Outlook inbox gives you nightmares Xobni Plus' advanced search features could be the solution.
Twitter redesigns its home page, adding a box to enable easy access to its real-time search engine, along with hot topics
Governments can't ignore Twitter, because it's a channel on which people might just listen. But, says Don Reisinger, they have to do it right
Germany becomes most spammed country thanks in part to translation software, says MessageLabs
And it's worth worth a look for anyone with a corporate urge to get on Twitter, not just UK government departments
Queen Margaret University has won an award for its sustainable approach to IT, based on the roll out of a low power, thin-client desktop infrastructure
It's as old as the moon landings, but IBM's real-time transaction system, CICS, is still in use on the majority of all mainframes
Transcription company Spinvox, accused of faking, gets scientists and call centres to vouch for it
Microsoft will release two out-of-band security bulletins tomorrow, targeting issues in Internet Explorer and the Visual Studio product line
Google programmers have ‘open sourced' two components of the Google Wave messaging and collaboration prototype
The European Commission confirms that Microsoft will offer European users a special edition of Windows 7 will be called the E version
Nokia, LG and Samsung all grew market share, as an analyst reports that 269 million handsets were shipped in the second quarter of 2009
The IT Effectiveness Index Mid-Year Report has found small-to-medium-sized businesses with failing IT are at a competitive disadvantage
Palm has released Palm webOS 1.1 to target its Pre smartphone at enterprises, according to a Palm executive
Yahoo's board was reportedly due to meet yesterday to discuss a potential search engine and online advertising partnership with Microsoft
Oracle has acquired GoldenGate Software to integrate into its database and middleware products, alongside Sun and Virtual Iron
Don Reisinger advocates maintaining your perspective and an open mind to employee use of Web 2.0 with his ten top tips
Twitter lost its data through a hack on Google Docs. Learn from this to be very careful how much trust you place on cloud apps and Web 2.0, says Eric Lundquist
Two major councils in England are using content and document management technology to play a central transformational role in process efficiency
Microsoft's Office 2010 shows plenty of updates to core Office abilities - but also takes Office out to the web, where it performs within Explorer Firefox and Safari browsers
Companies are grasping easy options for greening up, because of poor quality data, according to an Oracle performance management study
Trademark-owners and Internet users are scared, but ICANN wants to press ahead with a move to allow an unlimited number of Internet domains
Newcomer BackupMy.net, a year-old Austin-based startup, began offering free backup of Twitter messages on its affiliate, BackupMyTweets.com back in February 2009
A free online version of Office is a good weapon against Google Docs and other free office tools - but won't it dent the sales of the full Office 2010 package?
A Westminster summit has suggested the looming zero carbon commercial targets will expose IT operations to more pressures
You can't have it both ways, says Jim Rapoza. If Google expects users to pay for a service, then it can't call it a beta. Beta software is not ready for prime-time, by definition
Orange has confirmed it will be the exclusive UK provider of Toshiba's iPhone-rival, the TG01 smartphone featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor
Difficulty integrating cloud services and ensuring their integrity will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages”
Microsoft is prepping fixes for vulnerabilities in the DirectShow and Video ActiveX Control components as part of July's Patch Tuesday