Amazon CTO on the benefits of the cloud 
Video At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels broadly outlines the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure [08 Dec 2009]
Orange steps into cloud services
News From 2010, Orange Business services will offer its large corporate customers a software-as-a-service app store, as well as hosted storage and unified communication suites [18 Dec 2009]
YouTube may add paid-for TV shows and films
News The Google-owned video site is looking at subscriptions to view full-length TV shows and movies as an alternative revenue stream [17 Dec 2009]
Synchronicity or Home Mass Media Mayhem*
Blog I've spent a lot of time building a couple of websites for some friends. I'm trying to become reasonably proficient in yet another programming language. I've been writing an automated... [17 Dec 2009]
HTML groups take on webcam support
News A draft specification aims to make web-based videoconferencing possible, marks another step in expansion of the web standard's scope [16 Dec 2009]
Akamai defends web apps in the cloud
News The company's new Web Application Firewall managed service is aimed at reducing the risk from massive, distributed application-layer attacks [15 Dec 2009]
- Cloud apps - ator1940
Google launches URL-shrinking service Goo.gl
News The search giant has launched a URL-shortening tool called Goo.gl, built into its own products [15 Dec 2009]
Amazon's virtual private cloud goes public
News Following a limited public trial, Amazon's enterprise-oriented VPN connection offering has rolled out to all the company's EC2 cloud-computing users [15 Dec 2009]
EU gets internationalised domain names
News Names written in characters including Greek and Cyrillic can now be used with the pan-European .eu top-level domain [14 Dec 2009]
Yahoo unveils plan for real-time search
News The company will integrate real-time results from Twitter directly onto its search pages [11 Dec 2009]
3D web closer to reality with draft standard
News WebGL has moved from an idea at Mozilla and the Khronos Group to a draft standard for the 3D web [11 Dec 2009]
ICO consults on privacy code of practice
News The Information Commissioner's Office has launched an online consultation on a new draft code of practice for protecting individuals' privacy online [10 Dec 2009]
Facebook shakes up privacy settings
News All Facebook users will soon be required to configure their privacy settings, although the company encourages people to keep some information public [10 Dec 2009]
First Mobile Firefox nears release
News Mozilla plans to launch the first release candidate of Firefox for mobile phones next week, with multitouch Windows Mobile support, and more planned for next year [10 Dec 2009]
Chrome beta comes to Mac, Linux
News Google has issued the first beta versions of its browser for Mac OS X and Linux, while the stable version is due next month [09 Dec 2009]
- Chrome Beta for Linux - Moley
Navteq to supply 3D map data to Microsoft
News The partnership will see Navteq deliver 3D map data for Microsoft's newly expanded online mapping services [08 Dec 2009]
Google ties up with Twitter for real-time search
News A new section of Google's search results page will be dedicated to so-called 'real time' searches with automatically refreshed updates from sources such as Twitter [08 Dec 2009]
Will we need snowboots for New York?
Blog Will Bing or Google make it easier to find out? We’re off to New York for some meetings and the annual Strategic News Service predictions event and I’m wondering what to pack: raincoat or down... [07 Dec 2009]
Facebook forms safety advisory board
News The board consists of five internet safety organisations that will consult with the social-networking site [07 Dec 2009]
Bing outage caused by testing error
News Microsoft says a change that was being tested was mistakenly moved onto the live site, causing Thursday night's sitewide outage [07 Dec 2009]
Google rolls out translated search option
News The search giant is aiming to lower language barriers by offering a native-language view of the web through translated search results [07 Dec 2009]
Google offers customised search for all users
News Previously, Google would only alter search results based on search history for those signed into Google accounts. Now, it plans to do that for everyone [07 Dec 2009]
Does BT understand Twitter? Contrasting views on the power o...
Blog I've personally had a great experience with BT on Twitter. But views expressed on the relaunch of BT Tradespace suggest they don't really understand the power of social media as much as they... [04 Dec 2009]
Why proprietary software is all wrong
Blog It's not that I don't like individual proprietary software, it's that I don't like it in principle. A case in point is Axure, the wireframe and prototyping software. I've been playing with a... [24 Nov 2009]
Opera Web Browser version 10.10 Released
Blog I just noticed that Opera 10.10 is available for download. Here's a one-word review: WOW!. I am quite partial to Opera, and I have been since way back in the days when I liked it enough to pay... [23 Nov 2009]
YouTube UK launches full-length TV shows
Blog YouTube, Google's main online video repository, has made full-length episodes of shows such as The IT Crowd and Who's Line Is It Anyway? available to UK viewers. YouTube's Shows section was... [19 Nov 2009]
FAST Search for SharePoint promises custom search without cu...
Blog Microsoft is trying to marry SharePoint admin with FAST’s search expertise for manageable search. At the SharePoint conference last month we got more details about the new Fast Search for... [16 Nov 2009]
Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.
Blog Rupert Murdoch has said that he'll probably take his content out of Google, and hinted very strongly he and other newspaper groups are in discussion over paywalls. Leaving aside the question of... [09 Nov 2009]
Bye bye browser?
Blog What’s the future of the web? On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the web outside the browser and onto the... [06 Nov 2009]
RT @jacobian The power of “no”
Blog Can you retweet a blog post emanating from a tweet? On the day that Radio 4 hails the mighty Twitter onto the world political stage, I think anything is admissible ;) Jacob Kaplan-Moss made a... [04 Nov 2009]
