A two hour blackout of Google mail was blamed on "data centre overload" and new code bugs, by the company's…
New support for open source from the UK government could lead to big savings as long as proprietary vendors don't…
Outages are only part of the problem for services on the web, says a City Law firm, warning cloud customers…
Video conferencing specialist Polycom says its HD-ready system, will boost take-up of telepresence, and cut business travel, but analysts warn…
Update: Gmail is back, after a two-hour outage. The company has not yet said how many people were affected, but…
Citrix is offering a management product for Microsoft's Hyper-V, and a free version of its own Citrix XenServe, in a…
Global recession is producing new locations for oursourcing, according to research - but companies should appreciate the risks involved
Microsoft is asking recently laid-off employees to return some of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid, according to…
The economic slowdown and important developments in this market segment have allowed virtualized systems to grow at a strong rhythm.
Now the word is out: there is money to be made in sustainable IT, we can expect the usual feeding…
The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor…
The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices
French computer maker claims solid-state, low power desktops are the future
Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, joining Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo in a big to to…
IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM…
The University of Liverpool's PowerDown can shut down idle PCs, saving users thousands of pounds.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called for social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter to share profiles and…
A Google application called Latitude lets users track friends, family and colleagues via Google Maps on a PC or mobile…
VMware View Open Client, released 3rd February, will most likely boost the number of thin-client devices from Wyse, HP and…
Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers.…
The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth…
Many people send e-mail messages while exhausted, angry or inebriated that they later regret. As part of Google's quest to…
Box.net, which began life as a file management and file-sharing platform in a cloud computing environment, is becoming a more…
It's official: Microsoft will release at least six versions of Windows 7, following the same marketing approach it took with…
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free…
Google's latest update to Google Earth includes several new features to view, including the three-dimensional renderings of the ocean floor,…
Despite summer outages for Google Gmail and Google Apps that left some analysts questioning whether Web-based applications were right for…
It's impossible for eBay to report quarterly earnings without the usual deliberations about what the company could, would or should…
At Adobe MAX Japan, Adobe announces that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 have reached record adoption numbers to…
Incubation projects can save Microsoft. The company needs them now more than ever.