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Delay ACTA vote, European Commission pleads

...European Commission has asked the European Parliament not to vote on the contentious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in June. The Parliament is likely to reject... Read more

5 April, 2012

ACTA to see Euro vote in June as delay averted

...Europe's top court, paving the way for a vote on the contentious treaty in June. Image credit: Salajean/Shutterstock The European Commission said in... Read more

28 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Canonical defends its shift to Unity

Ubuntu-backer Canonical has defended its contentious move to the Unity desktop, arguing that the open-source Linux community... Read more

22 February, 2012

Kaspersky leaves BSA over US piracy bill

...quit the Business Software Alliance over the group's support of a contentious US anti-piracy bill. Kaspersky will leave the pro-copyright group on... Read more

5 December, 2011
Wi-Fi Making Big New Waves

Wi-Fi Making Big New Waves "In-Room" High-Speed Uses to Get Big Boost From Wireless Mainstay

Technology industry veterans might remember the contentious speculation that abounded at the end of the 1990s over which short... Read more

1 October, 2011

Why Google and the web need the Knowledge Graph

...how the Knowledge Graph relates to Google+ and the company's deeply contentious new privacy policy, which allows data-sharing across the myriad Google services... Read more

17 May, 2012

Book review: The Geek Manifesto

...expert advice that it does not work. Where Henderson gets into more contentious waters is in his discussion of such media and political hot potatoes... Read more

24 May, 2012

Virtual CPUs â?? The Overprovisioning Penalty of vCPU to pCPU ratios

2011 was a year where despite the economic constraints everything Big was seemingly good; Big Data, Big Clouds, Big VMs... Read more

12 January, 2012

Rapporteur tells MEPs to reject ACTA

...legislative process in Europe, has recommended that the European Parliament reject the contentious treaty. "The intended benefits of this international agreement are far outweighed by... Read more

13 April, 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 'Precise Pangolin' gets beta release

...LibreOffice. The beta is the first LTS release to come with the contentious Unity desktop, which was introduced with Ubuntu 11.04. Additionally, the default... Read more

2 March, 2012
ACTA to be examined by top EU court

ACTA to be examined by top EU court

...ACTA would be implemented," she said.ACTA concerns ACTA is an intensely contentious document. Drawn up behind closed doors, the stated purpose of the pact... Read more

22 February, 2012 by David Meyer
Infiniserv launches Linux-based UK cloud

Infiniserv launches Linux-based UK cloud

...called Elastic Cloud Computing — on the hypervisor partly because of VMware's contentious licensing change for vSphere5, which charges according to server memory as well... Read more

25 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

SOPA: Cheat Sheet

Not soap - something that could undermine the fundamental interconnectedness of the internet... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

HP tops Greenpeace electronics guide

...the guide was Blackberry-maker RIM, mainly for its use of environmentally contentious materials such as brominated flame retardants and PVC in its products. RIM... Read more

9 November, 2011
Why the cloud must come back to earth

Why the cloud must come back to earth

...Enabling services The National Institute of Standards and Technology has the least contentious definition of cloud computing: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous... Read more

23 July, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

13 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

14 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

15 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

18 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

19 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

19 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

22 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

22 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

23 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

1 day ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

1 day ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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