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Adobe Gets Creative With £509m Fotolia Deal
Acquisition to deliver vibrant image and video marketplace for creatives worldwide
6 Simple Steps To Surviving Windows Server 2003 End-of-life
Peter Tsai, Spiceworks IT analyst, explains how IT departments can avoid migration misery in 2015
Microsoft Expands Document Inspector for Office Suite
Microsoft updates its Office Document Inspector to stop users leaking personal data when sharing documents
Canonical Refreshes With ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core And Easy Updates
New version of Ubuntu Core comes with transactional updates to mimic a mobile phone update
Microsoft Azure Government Cloud Hits General Availability
After more than a year in preview, Redmond makes general available its Azure Government Cloud service
MPs Withdraw Backing From Post Office Fraud Row Mediation Scheme
More than 140 MPs said they can no longer support the Post Office's mediation scheme for sub-postmasters who say computer systems caused them to be wrongly accused of fraud
HP Moves Haven Big Data Platform To The Cloud
HP migrates Haven platform to the cloud allowing customers to access analytics technology within minutes
Microsoft Acquires Mobile Email Start-Up Acompli
Acompli's software is available on Android and iOS and allows users to manage email from sources including Outlook, Gmail and others
HP To Offer Office 365 With Enterprise Support
HP will let customers choose in which data centre their Office 365 documents are stored
Firefox 34 Makes It Official: Google Is Out, Yahoo Is In
Firefox 34, which includes eight security fixes, is the first version since Mozilla announced it was dropping Google for Yahoo as its default search engine
Samsung Could Launch Tizen Smartphone On 10 December
Samsung Z1 will show Tizen is alive, according to a report
Netflix’s ‘Laissez-Faire’ IT Embraces Cloud And Open Source
Netflix lets employees use what ever they want, open sources its internal applications and wants to be cloud-only by the end of the year
8 Reasons You Don’t Want To Use OpenStack
David Fishman, VP marketing at OpenStack firm Mirantis, takes a rather tongue-in-cheek look at why a business wouldn’t want OpenStack
How Enterprise Mobile Apps Can Improve The Bottom Line
Claire Galbois, director of cloud solutions at Accellion, a developer of enterprise software for mobile file sharing, describes three ways enterprise mobile apps can provide value for money
Microsoft Lets Slip Acompli Acquisition
Oops. Has Microsoft let the cat out of the bag regarding a possible acquisition of email startup Acompli?
How One Money Saving HR Solution Found A Home At Housing Group
MobileHR and self-service is used to submit 3,000 staff nominations for internal recognition scheme
University Of Oxford Harnesses Student And Lecturer Brain Power With Cloud Platform
One of the world’s oldest universities is crowdsourcing ideas for innovative new digital projects
Why Latin America’s Biggest Media Firm Chose CloudStack
Globo.com selected CloudStack for its application development and system management platform
How to manage the risk of application change
Ian Wells, VP North-West Europe, Veeam, a backup, disaster recovery and virtualisation management specialist, explains how to build a robust enterprise application environment
How ShapeBlue aims to bring next-generation storage benefits to cloud environments
The CloudStack integrator has teamed up with "the storage industry’s number one Solid-State Array" to improve public and private cloud
Mozilla Exits Google Firefox Search Deal In Favour Of Yahoo Tie-Up
Mozilla wants to promote search competition with new local deals
Fujitsu Touts Benefits Of Converged Infrastructure To Cloud-Shy Firms
Fujitsu unifies converged infrastructure products under the PrimeFlex banner but refutes 'data centre in a box' description
IBM Launches Social Media-Powered Enterprise Email Service
IBM Verse uses social, analytics and cloud technology, and is aimed at transforming the way people work and collaborate
Have Your Favourite Apps Been Hacked?
Study detects an increase in hacks of the top 100 mobile apps and exposes a lack of mobile application self-protection
Quiz Of The Week: Firefox Is 10!
Mozilla's Firefox celebrates its tenth birthday, but what do you know about the open source browser?
Oracle And SAP Settle Bitter Software Piracy Lawsuit
The bad blood between bitter rivals Oracle and SAP may ease slightly after the settlement of a lengthy lawsuit
Apple Prepares For Enterprise Push With New Sales Team And Developer Tie-Ups
Reports suggest Apple is seeking more partnerships ahead of its enterprise venture with IBM
Huge Patch Tuesday Update Tackles Critical Bugs
Experts urge Windows users to download the mammoth Patch Tuesday update immediately
Mozilla Releases Firefox OS 2.0 With NFC Support
Firefox OS 2.0 is made available to developers using the 'Flame' reference smartphone