The latest software upgrade to Apple's Snow Leopard has ended support for Intel Atom chips, reports are suggesting
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
November 3, 2009
Cisco Believes Tandberg Offer Is Fair
Cisco is playing hard ball after an executive said that its takeover offer of $3 billion for Tandberg is a fair price for the video conferencing rival
Sony Ericsson Launches Xperia X10 Android Smartphone
Sony Ericsson has taken the wraps off its first Google Android-based device, the Xperia X10, which will go on sale in early 2010
M86 Beefs Up Web Security With Finjan Acquisition
M86 Security is to acquire most of the assets of Finjan, a provider of web gateway security appliances
Former YouSendIt Boss Charged With DoS Attack
The former CEO of YouSendIt has been charged with denial-of-service against the company, highlighting the dangers of disgruntled staff
Data Centres: Does Reliability Clash With Efficiency?
New data centres are more efficient than their predecessors, but they have to be reliable too. Peter Judge asks - what happens when the need for reliability clashes with the demand for efficiency?
EU Considers Digital Consumer Protection Crackdown
European regulators claim that consumers need greater online protection
Ditch Microsoft, Save £269m Says Hungarian Open Source Group
Despite a struggling economy and public debt, the Hungarian government continues to spend millions on Microsoft licences when cheaper alternatives exist, say open source groups
Prison IT System Branded “A Shambles”
The Public Accounts Committee has condemned the handling of the National Offender Management Information System, designed to track prisoners.
Computacenter Launches Tier IV Data Centre In Romford UK
Computacenter has launched Europe's first certified Tier IV data centre - in the last major data centre site to be built within the M25
Lists Threatens Openess Of Twitter Network
Blogging celebrity Anil Dash examines Twitter Lists as a way to tag real-time Web feeds
Obama Pressured To Appoint Cyber-security Chief
TechAmerica tells President Obama his promise to appoint a cyber-security coordinator in the White House is growing more urgent by the day
Trojan Uses Facebook To Network With Server
Researchers at Symantec find a Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate with a command and control server
iPhone Could Be Amazon Kindle E-Book Rival
Apple's iPhone could become a major competitor to Amazon.com's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers, says one analytics company, if the number of e-book apps continues to grow
Yahoo Drifts Towards Open Source Cloud Computing
Yahoo takes its second major step in five months toward open-source cloud computing by introducing an open-source version of Traffic Server