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Force.com improves link to Google's cloud
News Salesforce.com has introduced a new version of Force.com that improves the cloud-computing platform's integration with Google App Engine. The launch follows on from an initial version of Force.com for Google App Engine, released in December, that...
[May 28, 2009, 15:36]
Gartner: Force MS to publish source code
News The only practical way to punish Microsoft for monopolistic practices is to force it to publish some of the source code for its operating systems, according to analyst Gartner Group's top brains. He says: "How would you force them to compete and...
[February 21, 2000, 6:40]
Hi-tech police to join new UK force
News The elite police force will merge the National Crime Squad (which the NHTCU is part of), the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the investigative branches of the Customs and Immigration Service.
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Police force's Facebook app raises privacy concerns
News Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a presence on Facebook. Within a day of launch, 750 people had added the application, the police force said. Greater Manchester Police is proud to be the first force...
[April 21, 2008, 15:13]
Online banks to force high-street price cuts, says study
News Online banks will force high-street branches in Europe to cut costs dramatically over the next three years, according to a study to be published by US investment bank JP Morgan on Monday. The study indicates that the number of Europeans banking via...
[June 5, 2000, 11:08]
Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com
News Salesforce.com and Adobe on Monday announced an alliance that brings the power of the Adobe Flash platform to Salesforce's Force.com, where developers build — and often share — business apps for the cloud.
[October 26, 2009, 14:18]
Batteries law could force iPhone design change
News New EU batteries legislation that came into force across Europe late last month could force the redesign of products whose batteries are not removable, such as Apple's iPhone and iPod. At issue is the New Batteries Directive of 2006, which became...
[October 8, 2008, 17:05]
Did Ofcom force BT's broadband price rises?
News BT has refused to comment on the suggestion that it had made these price rises now because it knew that Ofcom would soon force it to make them anyway. BT's decision this week to increase its wholesale business broadband prices by as much as 30...
[August 5, 2004, 16:15]
Internet data-retention law comes into force
News Internet service providers will have to retain details of internet communications, including email, under UK law which came into force on Monday. The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 require service providers to retain details of user...
[April 6, 2009, 16:37]
Electronic crime needs its own force
Leader For minor crimes, your local police force may be the right people, but if the problem is too technical they probably won't have the expertise or resources to deal with it. IT and telecommunications can be a great force for good, both in business...
[January 20, 2005, 12:25]
Sun uses reviews to whittle down work force
News Sun Microsystems is implementing a new employee review process that, combined with cost-cutting measures, will likely lead to a reduction in the company's work force. Intel said it will try to reduce its work force by 5,000, primarily through...
[April 11, 2001, 10:02]
Salesforce CEO unveils Force.com
News At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com's chief executive, Marc Benioff, talked about the new Force.com offering, which will act as a platform for the company's various software services.
[September 19, 2007, 12:33]
O2 prices force police to rethink vocab
News What happened in the past is, before you had mobile phones, you did have a standard, but people have started colloquialising quite a lot — in each force each of the officers would speak a different language," a PITO spokesperson explained on...
[February 21, 2007, 8:48]
Government to force handover of encryption keys
News The UK Government is preparing to give the police the authority to force organisations and individuals to disclose encryption keys, a move which has outraged some security and civil rights experts. Encryption products are more widely available and...
[May 18, 2006, 12:10]
Desktop Linux 'will force Microsoft to innovate'
News Open source will force software vendors to create better products, but will not be its downfall, according to Novell. They won't like it, but it will force them to innovate," Asay added. Matt Asay, Novell's director of Linux business office, said...
[April 20, 2004, 16:55]
Users to force green IT agenda
News We would then look at, if we get our own house in order, what are the external factors that force us to do things inefficiently. The UK's first end-user environmental IT board has commissioned a report, called The Inefficient Truth, on green IT...
[July 23, 2007, 12:34]
Vignette to cut work force on lowered outlook
News Software maker Vignette said Thursday it plans to shut some offices and trim its work force by approximately 15 percent to reduce expenses as it looks toward weaker earnings. Vignette, which employs roughly 2,300 workers, plans to lay off...
[January 18, 2001, 14:20]
Major price hikes force Office XP users to upgrade
News The Redmond, Washington-based software company on Thursday revamped its licensing program -- in the process raising fees anywhere from 33 percent to 107 percent for the majority of customers, according to Gartner.
[May 14, 2001, 8:17]
SCO slashes its work force by 19 percent
News "These cuts are unrelated to the merger," said a Caldera Systems spokesman, who added, "Given where SCO was financially prior to the merger, these cuts were necessary. Caldera Systems CEO Ransom Love said that the bulk of the cuts would come from...
[September 8, 2000, 7:37]
Salesforce chief launches Force.com Sites
News With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host and allow individual users to customise a public web page using Force.com technologies. At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com...
[November 4, 2008, 13:46]
