Projects

Google Apps Tool Eases Outlook Migration

Google has released a new Microsoft Outlook tool to help users migrate their data and contacts to Google Apps

14 years ago

Ofcom Makes ‘Three Strikes’ Rules For Digital Economy Act

Ofcom has drafted a proposal for tackling illegal file-sharing and copyright infringement, in accordance with the Digital Economy Act

14 years ago

Google AdMob Deal Pits It Against Apple

Google has finalised its acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob, setting up a battle with Apple for ads in smartphone…

14 years ago

Palm WebOS Boss To Improve Google Android UX

Google has hired webOS user interface director Matias Duarte from Palm to improve the user experience for the Android operating…

14 years ago

Google Denies Access To Street View Wi-Fi Data

Google is refusing to allow Germany and Hong Kong to look at the data collected accidentally from unsecured Wi-Fi networks…

14 years ago

UK Ranked 33rd For Home Broadband Speed

The UK is ranked 33rd in the Ookla Net Index, which measures consumer broadband speeds around the globe

14 years ago

Firefox Home Coming To iPhone

Mozilla is finalising a submission to Apple for a free iPhone browser app based on its own Sync technology

14 years ago

Adobe Sets Adobe Reader Free For Android Users

Adobe has released Adobe Reader for Android to the Android Market, just after Google pledged support for Adobe's Flash and…

14 years ago

Chip Implant Virus Research Debunked

Claims that implanted identity chips can pick up computer viruses have got the bad science police up in arms

14 years ago

Google Chrome 5.0 Stable for Windows, Mac, Linux

Google's Chrome team has released stable builds loaded with HTML5 utilities for Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux

14 years ago

Analysts Warn Vendors On Software Liability

The UK is leading the way in turning the tables on software vendors and providers in terms of liability

14 years ago

Institute for Web Science Axed In Spending Cuts

Academic organisation led by Tim Berners-Lee will no longer receive funding under new government’s £6.2 billion efficiency plans

14 years ago

Promoted Tweets Protected From Third-party Ads

Revised developer terms of service deny third parties ability to inject paid tweets on any service that uses its API

14 years ago

Nokia And Yahoo Partner On Mobile Services

Yahoo and Nokia announce a partnership that will see Yahoo become the global provider for Nokia's Ovi e-mail and messenger…

14 years ago

Salesforce CEO Hits Out at Microsoft ‘Ally Thugs’

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff used strong language during a recent earnings call to describe a patent-infringement lawsuit brought by Microsoft

14 years ago

Google TV Gets Cautious Welcome

Analysts have given Google’s upcoming Android 2.1-based TV offering the thumbs up, but caution that the IT industry is littered…

14 years ago

HP Labs’ Manure-Fuelled Data Centre Creates Stink

Research paper suggesting cow poo could be used to fuel a 1-megawatt data centre has industry watchers wondering what the…

14 years ago

IBM Pushes Sybase Migration to DB2

IBM has introduced pushing a new technology to allow Sybase ASE applications to connect to a DB2 DBMS

14 years ago

Analyst Predicts Tablet Goldrush From iPad Success

With the iPad, Apple kicked open a door that numerous competitors are expected to follow it through, sending tablet sales…

14 years ago

More Speed For Google Android 2.2

Google has launched Android 2.2 at Google I/O, bringing Adobe Flash 10.1, greater performance and enterprise capabilities to the platform

14 years ago

Google Offers Cloud Storage For Developers

Google Storage for Developers utilises the RESTful API and Google's existing storage and networking infrastructure to store code from cloud-computing…

14 years ago

iPad App Store Goes Live In UK

Apple opens up access to the App Store for its tablet device to fans outside of the US, but locks…

14 years ago

Oracle Bags Secerno’s Database Security

Oracle is buying database security vendor Secerno in a bid to grab its database firewall technology

14 years ago

Google Launches Chrome Web Store

The search giant introduces Chrome Web Store so 70 million users of its web browser can find create shortcuts to…

14 years ago

VeriSign Sells Authentication Business to Symantec for $1.3bn

Barely a day after the rumours started to fly, Symantec confirms plans to buy VeriSign's identity and authentication security business

14 years ago

Google Touts Enterprise Cloud With VMware

Google launches new version of hosting platform and a VMware partnership to help bring enterprise Java developers to the cloud

14 years ago

Google Sets Its Wave Platform Free

Google has opened up Google Wave to everyone for free, one year after introducing the real-time collaboration platform to Google…

14 years ago

Survey Suggests Vista Stigma Lifting

Microsoft’s reputation among consumers experienced a lift after the release of Windows 7, according to the latest US index, but…

14 years ago

Europe Finally Gets Digital Agenda

Digital manifesto for the region faces criticism on open source and copyright expectations

14 years ago