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VMware: Tech industry will revolve around IT as a service

IT management will increasingly focus on cloud services and managing virtual infrastructure in hosted environments, said VMware at the launch of a number of cloud products Read more

1 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Intel chief warns of US tech industry 'erosion

Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini has warned that US government policies have become hostile to businesses and will stifle innovation if not changed Read more

25 August, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Why foreigners are good for the UK tech industry

An open-door policy benefits UK, experts say... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Ken Olsen, DEC co-founder, dies at 84

...death on Monday. Olsen's company dominated the minicomputer era of the tech industry from the 1960s through to the 1980s with the PDP and... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Tom Krazit
Should software be patentable? That's the wrong question to ask

Should software be patentable? That's the wrong question to ask

...industry is competitive and needs patent protection as much as any other tech industry. Those software doomsayers who say software is just ideas, mental processes... Read more

29 October, 2011 by Marty Goetz
Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...It was with NeXT that Jobs reasserted his place in the high-tech industry, unveiling the company's high-end desktop computer at Davies Symphony... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

EU moves to stop surveillance tech sales to despots

...response. She said further details about that response would follow on Monday. Tech industry self-regulation may be the answer, Kroes will say, suggesting the... Read more

8 December, 2011 by David Meyer

Can I be the first to say the 'social network' is dead?

So Facebook has announced a new data centre, the latest in a series of moves to keep on a par with Google, even as the... Read more

27 October, 2011

Facebook and Cisco back IT skills drive for kids

...UK. "If the government were serious about the UK having its own tech industry, it would promote open and home-grown, not train yet another... Read more

16 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google accuses Microsoft, Apple of patent conspiracy

The company's legal chief has written a blog post accusing Google's rivals of arranging 'a hostile, organised campaign against Android' using 'bogus patents' Read more

4 August, 2011 by David Meyer
Is your IT job set to survive?

Is your IT job set to survive?

...current changes in IT are shifting more of the power in the tech industry away from those who deploy and support apps to those who... Read more

31 July, 2011 by Jason Hiner

Microsoft, BT test white-space broadband in Cambridge

...and residential premises. Cambridge has been chosen both for its strong wireless tech industry and the fact that it is "distinguished by a dense mixture... Read more

27 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Lodsys patent firm hit by lawsuit

...the company pursuing high-profile patent-infringement cases against many in the tech industry, has found itself on the receiving end of a pre-emptive... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Steven Musil

Lodsys extends patent offensive to Best Buy and Adidas

...the company pursuing high-profile patent infringement cases against many in the tech industry, has broadened its legal attack to include Adidas, Best Buy and... Read more

13 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Oracle Fusion: Cheat Sheet

...it taking so long? Six years is a long time in the tech industry... The development of these applications is a big task for Oracle... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

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