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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 have said in recent announcements, says Nicholas Kolakowski

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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 applications delivered via the cloud

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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 of important enhancements to make it even more attractive as the Linux distro of choice on the desktop

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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 cooling.

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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

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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 not-too-distant future."

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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 come to terms with Twitter and its impact, ready for what will effectively become Twitter 2.0?

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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 young, but now more and more elderly folk are jumping aboard the social networking bandwagon

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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 Peter Judge.

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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

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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 to upgrade to the full version of Office 2010 with the purchase of a single-license card

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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 open source motives with its Codeplex Foundation

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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 of Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which will focus on the creation of social applications and services

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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 the former Minister behind Digital Britain

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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 or any other social network, microblogging or other non-work Website

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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 - Codeplex - seriously. Jason Brooks asks, what if it's serious?

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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

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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

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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 the iPhone?

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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 of a likely phishing attack

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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 the FTC Act and for the first time requires bloggers to disclose any material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.