Firefox OS will launch in a number of European and South American nations by the end of 2013
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HP Adds OpenStack Features To Its Converged Cloud
HP borrows cloud bursting from OpenStack, proposes new fibre channel storage blueprints
IBM Enhances Big Data Platform With Hadoop And Analytics
IBM has beefed up its big data options after announcing the BLU Accelerator and the PureData System for Hadoop.
Social Network Hostility On The Rise
Social networking users are becoming increasingly hostile to offensive comments posted by others online
Lucas Nussbaum Voted New Leader Of The Debian Project
Assistant professor of computer science from University of Lorraine to oversee the development of Debian OS for the next year
Google Allows Users To Manage Personal Data After They’re Dead
New Inactive Account Manager works as a will for digital content
PayPal Eyes Social Push With Iron Pearl Acquisition
PayPal eyeing big growth push after buying Palo Alto firm
LinkedIn To Buy News Reader Pulse For £59m
LinkedIn agrees deal to bring Pulse to its 200m members
HP CEO Whitman Committed To ‘Magical’ Autonomy
Meg Whitman has insisted that HP is keeping Autonomy as it is still an important part in the overall big data picture
Fujitsu Launches New SPARC64 X Enterprise Servers
Oracle and Fujitsu continue to build on their partnership with the news of new high-end Unix servers
Mozilla Wants A New CEO As Gary Kovacs Quits
Gary Kovacs will be stepping down later this year
Bitcoin Value Crashes To $105 After ‘Panic Sale’
According to Mt Gox, too much demand led to the temporary price crash
Why Rackspace Stood Up To Software Patent Trolls
Alan Schoenbaum, leader of the legal team at Rackspace, explains what makes software patent trolls ‘tick’
Google Maps Editing Hits UK
Brits get to annotate Google Maps, with Map Maker
Adobe Launches Primetime For Television Content Push
Adobe Launches Primetime For Television Content Push
Yammer Update Points To Social Future For MS Office
Yammer is preparing new updates amid signs it is laying the groundwork for more integration with Microsoft Office
Europe Set For Continent-Wide Open Data Rules
European vice president Neelie Kroes wants to open data to the people
Google Reader Demise Rued By Former Boss
The former product manager of Google Reader has opened up about the controversial decision to axe it
WhatsApp Denies Google Acquisition Rumours
We are not talking to Google, says WhatsApp exec
Citi Wants To Reclaim Money Lost During Facebook IPO
Nasdaq set to pay out with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake
Google In Talks To Buy WhatsApp For $1bn – Report
Google is apparently in talks with WhatsApp to bolster its mobile messaging offering
Microsoft Laughs At Facebook Home And Android
Microsoft executive says Facebook Home does what Windows Phone was doing two years ago
Sky Email Avalanche Angers Customers
Some Sky customers have been receiving thousands of old messages after the company switched email providers
Facebook Paid Messages Arrive In The UK
Facebook says paid messages will reduce spam by charging up to £10.68
Six Libraries To Archive A Copy Of British Internet
The new Legal Deposit regulation will require publishers to allow qualified libraries take copies of all digital content
Quiz of the Week: Bitcoin Bonanza
Bitcoins are getting a lot of attention right now - see how much you know with our quiz!
Google Drops WebKit Rendering For Chrome, Opts For Blink
Google is dropping its involvement with the WebKit rendering engine to focus on its own open source alternative
Mozilla And Samsung Working On A New Browser Engine
‘Servo’ engine will be made from scratch using the new ‘Rust’ programming language
Yahoo Builds Dropbox Into Email
Now attachments can be saved directly into a Dropbox account
Bug Kills Facebook Search Privacy Tool
This time it is a bug rather than a Facebook decision that has caused concern