Financial Markets

iPhone 3GS Gets Phone Banking With HSBC

HSBC joins the crowd with business banking on the iPhone - and the new phone loses a character, to become…

15 years ago

Record Industry Sues File-Sharer For £1.2m

The RIAA has continued an aggressive campaign against digital piracy, as propagated through P2P networks, although this case represents the…

15 years ago

Retailers Look To Outsourcing To Cut Costs

Shops are getting smarter about using outsourcing, says Datamonitor

15 years ago

UK Still Lags At Open Source

Despite a recession which could promote open source, the UK is less likely to use it than Mali

15 years ago

New Economy, New Confusion?

There's a big buzz around the "new economy" of sustainable development. But is anyone actually sure that that means, asks…

15 years ago

Low Carbon Buildings Could Be Forced By Tax Rises

Government targets for sustainable development may need more effort - and IT has a part to play, according to debate…

15 years ago

Oracle’s Purchase Of Sun Nears Completion

The deal would end more than seven months of negotiations between Sun and several interested suitors—including Oracle, IBM and HP—vying…

15 years ago

New Cooling Saves 45 Percent Of Energy At Data Centre

Oil explorers PGS get an efficient data centre. Is that so they burn less of the fuel they find?

15 years ago

IBM Goes Legal Over Microsoft’s WebSphere Claims

Big Blue declines performance comparisons, sends a lawyers' letter instead

15 years ago

Server Virtualisation – Some Real Cost Savings

Server virtualisation promises to save space, costs and energy, but two UK local authorities have discovered there's more to achieving…

15 years ago

NEC EA261WM: A Display With Green Ambitions

Including a carbon meter and a lower power eco-mode  could help raise awareness of power usage in the office

15 years ago

Romania Issues €100 Million To Microsoft Without Bids

Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists

15 years ago

IBM Offers Government Stimulus Kit On Credit

Why wait for government cash for green projects when you get the technology right now and pay later, says IBM

15 years ago

Facebook Finds A Friend In Russian VC

Digital Sky Technologies is investing in privately held Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, which becomes a 1.96 percent equity…

15 years ago

Emulex Boss Rebuffs Broadcom Offer

Emulex president and chief executive Jim McCluney in a letter to stockholders calls Broadcom's offer inadequate

15 years ago

Carbon Reporting Model To Meet Future UK Laws

With the UK government about to impose mandatory carbon accounting, PwC has produced a reporting model which it says will…

15 years ago

UK Government To Force IT Training At Suppliers

If you want government money, you'll have to show your IT  training plan, says skills secretary John Denham

15 years ago

Fault Tolerance (Re)Discovered

Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection…

15 years ago

Why The Mainframe Will Never Die

Users need support in ever more demanding workloads, greening strategies and cloud computing models, which guarantees the mainframe's continuing relevance,…

15 years ago

Digital Minister: We’ll Cut £35bn In Costs By 2011

Updated: Tom Watson has announced how smart use of IT has enabled the government to save £26.5bn across government whilst…

15 years ago

BT’s Problems Come From Global Services Unit

BT's poor results and shock redundancy plan have come about because of problems in its Global Services division, says Bathwick…

15 years ago

IT Is Key To Climate Change Control

BT and Marks & Spencer and other users are looking to IT for solutions, according to a conference on the…

15 years ago

Citrix Receiver for iPhone: Enterprise Apps Go Mobile

If you are using Citrix XenApp to distribute applications to Windows machines, you should look at Citrix Receiver for iPhone…

15 years ago

SAP Plans To Acquire Greenhouse Gas Specialist

SAP announces its planned acquisition of Clear Standards, which designs applications for measuring greenhouse gas emissions

15 years ago

Struggling Yahoo Planning New Data Centre

Yahoo continues to wrestle with the global recession and strong competition from rivals Google and Microsoft

15 years ago

Twitter Founder Denies Acquisition Rumours

In March 2009, the site had a reported 9.3 million users, boosting its popularity immensely both among the general public…

15 years ago

Oracle Is Nuts To Stick With Sun Hardware

Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's…

15 years ago