AMD started out competing with Intel under the banner "Real Men Have Fabs". Now CEO Dirk Meyer explains the company's decision to spin off manufacturing into a separate company
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The barbarians at your door. How to identify and defeat the cyberthreats facing your business today
Many of the cyberthreats your business faces are invisible. Learn how to shine a light on these threats and discover how to take action to protect your business
Can Community-Source Get Apps Built In A Recession?
Community source development can save money and reduce vendor lock-in, by combining the best of the traditional and open-source development models
Dell To Cut Costs And Expand Netbooks
Faced with the recession and dismal fourth-quarter earnings, Dell is planning to cut costs and expand further into areas like netbooks.
How Do We Stop Fast Flux Networks?
Botnets change quickly to avoid being taken down. Larry Seltzer assesses a move to combat them - and says more could be done
Intel Moves On Energy Savings And Wireless Power
A look at some of the technology Intel currently has in active R&D shows ways to save energy within the data centre or PC and new ways to recharge laptop batteries while on the road. Intel says many of these developing technologies are ...
ERP Software Vendor Makes “Eco” Tools
Management add-on helps measure the whole company's environmental impact - and comply with legislation
Nokia Ponders Making A Laptop
With laptop makers moving into the phone sector, Nokia is considering joining the netbook onslaught at the lower end of the laptop market
Ethernet Switches Hit By Recession
The Ethernet switch market, which had been holding up well during the economic downturn over the past couple of years, saw its numbers drop in the fourth quarter as the recession really hit, according to a report from Infonetics Resear ...
Salesforce.com Makes A Bundle
Salesforce.com has had a record quarter while all around is gloom. Could this be vindication for the cloud model?
CeBIT 2009 Will Tackle Green IT Agenda
Boxed server rooms and low-energy laptops will be on show - if your carbon footprint allows you to travel to Hanover for the show
NetBenefit Sees Demand For Green Hosting
Customers are increasingly demanding energy-efficient hosting, says managed service provider NetBenefit.
Will Netbooks Swallow the Laptop?
With hardware makers rushing to bring out netbooks, have they overlooked a danger that consumers and business people will rush to cheaper machines at the expense of full-fat machines? HP's CEO Mark Hurd doesn't think so.
OpenSUSE 11.1 Vies for Desktop Linux Supremacy
Novell's OpenSUSE 11.1 has desktop features and an enviable community involvement strategy for tapping community involvement, but still a few rough spots. Can it stand up to Red Hat Fedora and Ubuntu from Canonical?
Motorola Ups Its WLAN Management Game
Motorola has updated its wireless LAN management offering, promising the new version can save customers money.
Google Adds Billing to App Engine
Google has added billing to its cloud computing platform, Google App Engine. The good news is users can go over the current free usage quotas - the bad news is that those free quotas are going to be reduced.
Logica Denies Price War, HP Disagrees
IT services company Lgica says that customers will still favour quality over price, even in a recession. But HP's UK director says he has seen competitors making "suicidal" offers
Microsoft Promises To Fix Windows 7 Issues
Microsoft's Windows engineering chief has promised to deal with more than 2000 issues, in response to criticism from Windows 7 beta testers
Marvell Puts A PC In A Plug
Network silicon maker Marvell, packs the guts of a computer into a unit the size of a small power transformer, and coined the term "plug computing"
IBM Puts Electric Car Plan In Drive
Big Blue will help a Danish group with smart grids to power electric vehicles, while Google has also backed green transport.
Rackspace Offers Carbon Calculator for Greener SMBs
Rackspace Hosting has announced a suite of tools to measure the carbon footprint of its small and medium-sized customers, promising the carbon calculator can save money and the environment
IBM, HP Server Sales Hit By Recession
Quarterly server revenue has shrunk at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems, as the global economy slows down, according to IDC. The one positive area is blade servers
Beware Of Software Bearing Gifts
If your applications aren't behaving the way you expect, the problem may not be where you think. Peter Judge found that familiar, trusted software may not be quite what it appears
Google outage was due to “overload”
A two hour blackout of Google mail was blamed on "data centre overload" and new code bugs, by the company's official blog.
Communication barriers waste cash at SMBs
Communications barriers and latencies are costing cost small and medium businesses (SMBs) up to 40 percent of their productive time, averaging to more than £3000 per employee, according to a report.
Visto Buys Good Technology From Motorola
Mobile email company Visto has finally snapped up its rival Good Technology, two years after Good was bought by Motorola
“Disjointed” IT could delay recovery, says CMA
We need working broadband and 3G to get out of the recession, communications managers have warned
UK Government To Save £600m With Open Source
New support for open source from the UK government could lead to big savings as long as proprietary vendors don't hijack it, say commentators
Cloud services ‘pose legal risks’
Outages are only part of the problem for services on the web, says a City Law firm, warning cloud customers may face lawsuits over performance and data protection
NASA’s Carbon Observatory Crashes
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, intended to scan Earth's surface for elusive carbon dioxide "sinks" in its atmosphere crashed today, after a launch failure.
Polycom Pushes High-End Video Conferencing
Video conferencing specialist Polycom says its HD-ready system, will boost take-up of telepresence, and cut business travel, but analysts warn of slow uptake and hidden costs around the technology