IBM has announced more software to help businesses manage their mainframe environments. And CA has also decided to join the party with its own offerings
November 20, 2009
Smartphone Uptake Drives Alternative Communication
The increasing uptake of smartphones is resulting in more and more users opting to use “non-voice communications”, a new study has revealed
Twitter To Launch Paid-For Business Accounts
Twitter has confirmed its plans to launch paid-for corporate accounts, designed to bring in new revenue streams for the micro-blogging site
Call of Duty Carries Recruitment Ad For GCHQ
Gamers playing Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox Live platform will encounter recruitment adverts for a secretive arm of British intelligence
Spiceworks Plug-in To Rein In Power Hungry PCs
Spiceworks has teamed up with Intel to offer a green plug-in that will allow companies to regulate the power consumption of their computers
Digital Economy Bill Gives Mandelson New Powers
The Digital Economy Bill, published today, gets tough on file-sharing, and allows Lord Mandelson to amend the copyright act in future
10 Things Google Needs To Remember About OS Security
The history of Windows security has shown that desktop operating systems are vulnerable, but there are even more potential attack strategies for an online OS. Google needs to ensure that Chrome's defenses are prepared
Google Reveals Chrome OS Security Details
After months of extravagant claims, Google has given more detail on why its new operating system is more secure than the competition
IBM Guru Sees Clouds On The Horizon
IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division between 2003 and 2005, now he's leading the all-encompassing cloud computing initiative.
Microsoft Pushes Parallel Programming For The Masses
Parallelising data will be easy enough for ordinary programmers, according to speakers at Microsoft's PDC
Google Releases Chrome OS To Developers
Google has released the Chrome operating system to open source for developers, but said end users would not be able to use it until late 2010.
Windows 7 Trounces Vista, Says Ballmer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Windows 7 is steadily outselling Vista over the same period - and external sources agree
AOL To Cut 2,500 Jobs
AOL management is asking for voluntary redundancies in order to reduce its operating costs by $200 million, but involuntary layoffs will follow if AOL does not hit its target