Software

Pirate Bay Sold For £4.7 Million

The Swedish software firm buying Pirate Bay plans to use its brand together with new file-sharing technology to create a…

15 years ago

Oracle Deal DOJ Delays Simply an “Irritation” for Sun

The US Federal government has decided to spend more time performing due diligence on the proposed Oracle-Sun merger, while Java…

15 years ago

Apple Confirms Jobs Goes Back to Work

Apple chief Steve Jobs has returned to work after a six-month medical leave that involved a liver transplant, a company…

15 years ago

Microsoft To Open Green Cloud Dublin, Chicago Data Centres

Microsoft plans to roll out two new data centres in Dublin and Chicago in July, preparing for increased demand for…

15 years ago

Adobe Shuts Up Shop For Cost-Saving Week

Adobe Systems has shuttered its North American operations for the week of 29 June in a cost cutting manoeuvre, according…

15 years ago

SMBs Will Be The Dominant Market In The Cloud, Says Parallels

Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system…

15 years ago

Microsoft Moves Into Energy Metering

New online application beta aims to help US consumers track, understand and reduce home energy usage.

15 years ago

Sun Ray Users Get More Options With RingCube Desktop Virtualisation

Sun Microsystems and RingCube are joining forces to offer Sun Ray users more options when deploying a desktop virtualisation environment.

15 years ago

Gartner Predicts PC Shipment Growth Upturn in Fourth Quarter

Gartner's latest assessment of worldwide PC shipments expects the PC market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter, and…

15 years ago

Tory Paper Demands Government Give Back Our Data

A new Conservative think tank report is calling for citizen-centric, open source IT development to put an end to wasteful,…

15 years ago

600 Windows Mobile Apps Will Take On the iPhone App Store

They'd better be very, very good apps to take on Apple's hordes

15 years ago

Customers Get Better Support From Apple Than Dell and HP

Apple customers were more satisfied with the outcome of tech-support calls than HP or Dell customers, according to a study…

15 years ago

Social Networkers Are Slack On Internet Security

A Webroot survey has found those using social networks such as MySpace and Facebook are not doing enough to protect…

15 years ago

Whitelisting: Is It Good Enough To Replace Anti-Virus?

An approved list of apps, or whitelist, is flavour of the month in security. But vendors and alanlysts question whether…

15 years ago

Vodafone Ponders Bid To Buy T-Mobile UK

Fewer operators might mean higher prices, and Vodafone would provide half the country's mobiles, if a deal emerges

15 years ago

Who Would be Brazil In The Java World Cup?

Not Sun or Oracle, but SpringSource, according to their CEO Rod Johnson; a recent survey and work on java specs…

15 years ago

Why Is Microsoft Helping Users Migrate From Outlook To Gmail?

Gmail is supposed to be a big threat to Microsoft's Outllok. If that's the case, Clint Boulton wants to know…

15 years ago

UK Public Sector Asks for £1 Billion For Radical IT Change

Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM

15 years ago

Microsoft Responds To Outlook Standards Row

Microsoft has responded to claims that Outlook 2010 will lack sufficient standards support.

15 years ago

HTC’s Hero – An Android-Based iPhone Challenger

Hero from HTC is a multi-touch, social-oriented Android phone with a keyboard version apparently planned. That should make the iPhone…

15 years ago

Open Source Is Not the Same As An Open Service

Companies need the freedom to get at their data, to choose hosted or in-house options and more. All this can…

15 years ago

What Do Intel And Nokia Actually Plan To Do?

Intel and Nokia announced a technology partnership. It's clearly about mobile devices, and Linux. But what exactly are they planning…

15 years ago

Nokia And Intel To Collaborate On Mobile Linux Devices

Connected mobile Linux devices from Nokia and Intel might challenge Windows netbook

15 years ago

Update: Vodafone Will Offer 3G Femtocell Free

Customers paying £60 will get Vodafone's coverage-boosting 3G femtocell free, while others will pay £5 a month

15 years ago

Java Store Could Beat iPhone App Store, Says Sun

Compared to the Java Store, Apple's iPhone App Store could be just a "rounding error", according to James Gosling, the…

15 years ago

James Gosling: Sun Is Better Off At Oracle Than At IBM

The future for Java is an unknown, says its creator James Gosling. But at least Sun Microsystems is owned by…

15 years ago

Gosling: Google’s Java Attitude Will Break Android Compatibility

There's no one in charge of Java on Google's Android OS - and that's going to lead to trouble says…

15 years ago

IBM Discusses Smarter Planet Plan

IBM has outlined how it is using its Maximo software, gained in its 2006 acquisition of MRO Software, to help…

15 years ago

Bing: Google Isn’t Hitting The Panic Button Yet

Google is responding to Bing - look at the Explore Search page - but that doesn't mean it's running scared…

15 years ago

Citrix Hits VMware with Free XenServer 5.5 Download

The new XenServer has better back-up. conversion and search - and you can get started with a free download. VMware…

15 years ago