Previous DayUK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on maybe
Blog Yep - in typical fashion, even the government's tacit admission that it was behind the curve on open source was released late. The press release/statement/apology - Government levels the playing...
Efficiency is key at Data Centre World
Blog Power and energy savings and green IT in its own right are all by products of saving money, according to those running the biggest energy users in IT, data centre managers. At least that was a...
Apple releases public beta of Safari 4
News Safari 4 is said to be much faster than the previous version and comes with new navigation features, such as Cover Flow and Apple's take on FireFox's 'awesome bar'
TomTom posts loss after Tele Atlas writedown
Blog Satnav-maker TomTom has posted a loss of €989m (£875m) for the fourth quarter of 2008, largely because it wrote down the value of Tele Atlas by around a billion euros. TomTom's pretax profits...
Google fixes, apologises for Gmail outage
News Google has said its 'really sorry' for the two-and-a-half-hour outage suffered by its webmail customers on Tuesday morning
Red Hat ties virtualisation future to KVM
News The enterprise open-source software company is moving away from Xen towards its own KVM technology, as part of its virtualisation strategy
ARM demos slim, low-power netbook prototypes
Video Bob Morris, head of mobile computing at ARM, tells ZDNet UK why a firm best known for its work on mobile-phone chip architecture could have a major impact on the netbook market
Safari 4 — really the fastest browser on the planet?
Blog The beta of Safari 4 has just been released, and at first sparkle it seems a worthy upgrade. It makes a good opening splash, too, taking Chrome's idea of having a mosaic of favourite pages as the...
Adobe PDF zero-day gets homebrew patch
News Open-source company Sourcefire says it has come up with a workaround for a flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat
RE:Gmail down - in 36 different languages
Blog Comment Its just come online for me. But the javascript was running really slow and in the end I had to force quit the page from firefox. No doubt the millions of users refreshing every 30 seconds like me...
Rambus victorious in US gov't antitrust case
News The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by the Federal Trade Commission in its seven-year antitrust battle with Rambus
VMware revamps datacentre tools
News The company aims for the cloud with its next generation of datacentre-virtualisation tools called vSphere, and announces a new Intel deal
Vodafone cuts 500 UK jobs
News The operator is shedding hundreds of employees as part of a cost-cutting drive to help it 'compete more effectively in the UK market'
Microsoft seeks to build more useful thesaurus
News Using machine language-translation techniques, a team of Microsoft researchers may have found a better way to serve up synonyms
Socitm: Cloud's more revolutionary than the PC
News Cloud computing could have a greater effect on public-sector IT than the advent of the PC in the 1980s, according to Socitm
Gmail down - in 36 different languages
Blog As I write this, Gmail is down - where it's been since around 9:30am GMT - and it's worldwide. Twitter search has become the standard 'is it just me?' test for network service failures, and as a...
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Released
Blog MEPIS announced their SimplyMEPIS 8.0 release over the weekend. That wasn't much of a surprise, as it is based on Debian Linux, and they had been in "waiting for lenny" mode for a while. The new...
Microsoft lets laid-off staff keep excess severance
News The software maker has said 25 laid-off workers who were accidentally paid too much will be able to keep the excess
Latest variant of Downadup worm circulating
News A new variant of the Downadup web worm opens a backdoor on infected machines that an attacker could use to install malicious programs
Symbian: Android is not open, it's a marketing label
News The Symbian Foundation's director says the Linux-based Google OS merely wears a big 'open' badge to disguise its underlying 'closed shop' ethos.
Microsoft working on secure 'Gazelle' browser
News The company is adding operating-system security features to the browser, which Microsoft Research says is more secure than Google's Chrome
It’s Virtual Reality Time in the Data Centre
Blog With VMworld Europe kicking off this morning in Cannes – and the hullabaloo over the Microsoft Hypervisor situation mercifully now behind us – it’s anybody’s guess as to what will make the...
