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Talkback How about BT first make sure that their existing network is where it should be? For the last six months I've been paying for 8mb when in reality the average connection speeds I achieve are 1mb. I...
Sun updates JavaFX and Java SE
News Sun pushes out new versions of Java SE and of JavaFX, its platform for developing rich internet applications, which could underpin a push into new devices
BT rolls out free broadband speed boost
News A switch to ADSL2+ technology means BT customers get speeds of up to 20Mbps rather than 8Mbps, although existing subscribers will have to renew their contracts
HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers
News The seven ProLiants built on AMD's new six-core Opteron chip come with heat- and power-management functions designed to drive down energy consumption
BSA launches two-month crackdown
Blog The Business Software Alliance is to launch a two-month campaign against businesses in London that haven't paid software licence fees. BSA will be phoning 1,000 businesses at random, to ask them...
Fedora 11 to get link to Exchange
News Release 11 of Red Hat's Fedora project will include OpenChange, a technology designed to give any email client native access to Microsoft Exchange
Oracle's Java plans sound familiar — and so will the response
Blog I'm glad Oracle, Sun Microsystems' new owner, is so enthusiastic about Java. The language and its tools may be open source these days, but the project still needs a strong sponsoring company to...
Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News The behavioural ad-serving technology company has announced a content-serving product
Acer launches first business netbook
News The PC manufacturer has tailored its Aspire One netbook for the corporate crowd, adding greater storage and XP Professional
The reality of virtualisation: Special report
Roundup Virtualisation has gone from curiosity to IT necessity. Find out what's happening at the cutting edge — and in daily use — in our special report
PC World pulls Linux netbooks from stores
News Microsoft has praised the retail giant's decision, but Ubuntu backer Canonical says the battle is not over yet
Ellison and McNealy discuss future of Java
Video At JavaOne in San Francisco, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison talks to Sun chairman Scott McNealy about plans for Java development
Opera 10 beta: screenshots
Photo The beta version of Opera 10 is now available for public testing, showcasing a new look and feel, improved performance and more.
Google appliance now searching by the billion
News Google Search Appliance 6.0 can now retrieve billions of documents within a corporate customer's network, leaving no spreadsheet behind
Bing muscles in on IE6 users
News Microsoft says it is investigating why Bing is being forced as the default search engine on machines running Internet Explorer 6
Antitrust probe targets tech giants over recruitment
News Apple, Google and Yahoo are being investigated for possible antitrust violations over negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, the Washington Post reports
Microsoft announces launch date for Windows 7
News The software giant has confirmed the 2009 date when its new operating system will hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs
Tibco aims to speed up cloud apps
News The Tibco Silver platform promises to reduce the time taken to build cloud applications using features such as 'self-aware elasticity'
