Projects

White House Outlines Online Identity Strategy

The US government has set out plans to strengthen authentication and identity verification on the web

14 years ago

Government Pledges End To Public ‘Vanity’ Sites

The Government will axe three quarters of its websites as part of a cost cutting review by the Cabinet Office

14 years ago

Pirate Bay Founding Group Abandons Ship

Piratbyran, creator of notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, is throwing in the towel following the death of one of…

14 years ago

BBC Trust Gives Project Canvas The Nod

The BBC Trust has given its approval for the BBC's involvement in Project Canvas, a video-on-demand service in conjunction with…

14 years ago

Open Government Data Consultation Launched

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has asked for views on how to make government handling of citizen data more transparent

14 years ago

Salesforce.com Countersues Microsoft In Patent Spat

Salesforce.com is accusing Microsoft of infringing on five of its patents, in a lawsuit countering the suit filed in May…

14 years ago

Intel Preparing Atom for Android 2.2

Google's Android 2.2 mobile OS will run on the x86 architecture and promote its Atom processor in more netbooks and…

14 years ago

RIM Posts Solid Q1, Drops Hints On Tablet Plans

BlackBerry maker reports first-quarter revenue, while being scant on details of “two significant product additions” later in the year

14 years ago

Microsoft Introduces Windows Live Essentials Beta

New beta features in Microsoft's Essentials include multimedia and productivity applications, Messenger, Sync, Writer and Mail

14 years ago

Google Open Sources Android 2.2 To Cloud

Developers can make use of Google cloud computing asset integration with mobile OS

14 years ago

Palm Plans Future Devices Despite HP Bid

A Palm developer reportedly says the company, despite being acquired by HP, is working on future mobile devices and a…

14 years ago

Salesforce’s Benioff Touts Next-Gen Cloud Computing

Marc Benioff, CEO of cloud service provider Salesforce.com, has put forth the idea that a Cloud 2 era is about…

14 years ago

Twitter Blocks Facebook Friends Link

The two biggest social networks have started a spat over moves to allow Twitter users to find and follow their…

14 years ago

Samsung Hedges Handset Bets With Bada

With new Wave and Galaxy handsets, Samsung is pushing its own mobile OS up against Android and Apple

14 years ago

Security Holding Back Gov 2.0 Survey Finds

US and European Ovum research suggests security fears are hampering public sector web 2.0 adoption

14 years ago

Oracle Updates Database Development Tool

Oracle has released Application Express 4.0 and has given its database development tool a web 2.0 makeover

14 years ago

LinkedIn Groups Gets Facebook Makeover

LinkedIn has drawn inspiration from the consumer social network space after it introduced a number of improvements for its Groups…

14 years ago

W3C Takes Major Step Towards Semantic Web

Tech body W3C has released standards for building rule systems on the web and making searches smarter

14 years ago

Apple Gathers Location Data With iAd Opt-Out

Ad platform privacy policy lets users opt out of collecting location data in advance of its launch next month

14 years ago

Salesforce Touts Chatter As Collaboration Tool

Aims to put new platform into the hands of every corporate user who needs to collaborate

14 years ago

Google Eyes Apps Integration With Full Voice Launch

Search giant makes Voice application available to anyone, while looking at deeper Google Apps integration

14 years ago

Digital ‘Fingerprints’ Can Expose Malware Developers

Hackers leave tell-tale signs in their malware, which can be used to catch them, according to a Black Hat talk

14 years ago

Intuit Boss Apologises After Major Crash

The boss of Intuit has issued a fullsome apology after a major service outage which disrupted thousands of clients

14 years ago

Microsoft Shows Windows OS For Mobile Enterprise

Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows Embedded for enterprise mobility: the Windows Embedded Handheld platform

14 years ago

Apple Safari 5 Upgrade Is Seamless: Review

Safari may never be top dog in the browser market, but new features indicate Apple's efforts create a new vision…

14 years ago

Companies Transferring Bad Habits To Cloud, Warns Gartner

With more and more companies utilising SAAS applications, Gartner has warned that some companies are taking their "bad practices" into…

14 years ago

WordPress Grows Up with 3.0: Review

WordPress 3.0 is more powerful and flexible than previous versions, but has lost some of the simplicity that made it…

14 years ago

Lenovo To Show Face-Recognising Laptop

Lenovo is preparing to showcase several "breakthrough" technologies at its Innovation Tour this month, including face recognition software

14 years ago

Amazon Speeds Up Data Transfer For S3 Storage

AWS Import/Export speeds up the movement of large amounts of data into and out of the Amazon Web Services platform…

14 years ago