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Twitter Removes Anti-Semitic Tweets In France
A complaint by the Union of Jewish Students of France leads Twitter to remove messages
IT Life: Complexities Are Fascinating
TechWeekEurope chats to Pravin Paratey, CTO at Affectv, about the appeal of complex problems, wearable computing and his days as a codebreaker for the Indian navy
Apache Promotes OpenOffice As Top-Level Project
The OpenOffice productivity suite is now an Apache top-level project, but will LibreOffice users care?
Mark Hurd: Oracle Accepts Cloud And Hadoop
Oracle chief operating officer Mark Hurd says the company really is enthusiastic about open source, big Data and the cloud
One Day Left To Enter Tech Success Awards
TechWeekEurope wants to write about successes, not failures
Citrix Should Go Home And Rethink Its Life
Cloud and mobile are boring, and Citrix needs to get better at exciting customers, says Tom Brewster
Government Launches GOV.UK
A single website for all government services goes online
LinkedIn Rolls Out New Visual Design For Profiles
Professional social network refreshes its profile pages
Windows 8 Will Disrupt Mobile Device Market in 2013
Windows 8 will bring both choice and confusion to the market, thinks Robert Mulins
IBM Posts Flat Q3 As Revenues Slip
IBM has reported sluggish quarterly financials after posting flat income coupled with a 5 percent fall in sales
LG And Sony To Release Google Nexus Smartphones?
New smartphones will promote Android partners and a Samsung tablet could be on the way
HP Offers Outsourced Analytics Services
HP is now offering business process outsourcing (BPO) big data analytics services via its enterprise services division
SGI, MarkLogic Bring Plug-And-Play To Big Data
SGI and MarkLogic have delivered a preconfigured, open-standards big data storage analytics package designed for large-dataset analysis challenges
Startup Targets Predictive Analytics
Quant5 has teamed up with Booz Allen Hamilton to target big data in the enterprise with predictive analytics
Premium Rate Firms Fined £450,000 After Dodgy Facebook Campaigns
PhonePayPlus reaches out to Facebook to clamp down on dodgy premium rate businesses
Kickstarter UK Launches, Pledges To Begin 31 October
Kickstarter UK projects can be submitted from today and can be launched and the end of the month
Google Extends Vintage MS Office Support
Google has reacted to unhappy Google Docs customers and extended support for old MS Office formats until January
SAP Users Slam Complex And Rigid Licensing
A survey of British SAP users has revealed that many are unhappy over licensing complexity and lack of flexibility
WebPlatform.org Backed By IT Giants For Developer Support
IT giants like Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are backing a centralised repository of web developer documentation
ScaleOut Analytics Server Targets Big Data
ScaleOut Software claims its Analytics Server speeds up data analysis through the use of in-memory data grid technology
NetSuite Introduces Two-Tier ERP For Oracle Users
NetSuite's cloud-based Two-Tier enterprise resource planning application is designed for corporations running Oracle ERP at their headquarters
Both Oracle And Google Will Appeal Java Verdict
Oracle wants a slice of the Android pie, while Google wants to clear its name
Google Kings Cross Base Set For 2015 Opening
Google is reportedly close to a £550m deal that will see it base its UK headquarters in Kings Cross, London
Mozilla Releases Firefox Metro Beta For Windows 8
Open source browser gets touch-ready for Windows 8
Facebook Bug Adds False ‘Likes’
Shares count as likes, even when shared in private, but only on plug-in counters, but some likes are liking stuff too much anyway... Facebook and its users in a muddle
Google Street View Now On Apple iPad And Mobiles
Good news for mobile users after Google makes Street View available to both Apple iOS 6 and Android
Microsoft Beefs Up App Security With PhoneFactor Purchase
Microsoft is to enhance the security of business apps on mobile devices with the acquisition of PhoneFactor
Google Library Settlement Ends Seven-Year Struggle With Publishers
Google agrees to let publishers decide what goes into its library
Facebook User Base Reaches One Billion
Mark Zuckerberg confirms Facebook has reached the historic milestone