The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor Martin Read.
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Ghosts in the machine help E.ON cut server costs
The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices
“No-fuss” Linux net-top updated
French computer maker claims solid-state, low power desktops are the future
Facebook SupportsOpenID
Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, joining Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo in a big to to let users port port their data around the Web.
IBM Puts Zend PHP stack on System i
IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM Power Systems. Around five million developers and 22 million Internet domains use PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook.
UK Academics Launch Open Source PC Power Saver
The University of Liverpool's PowerDown can shut down idle PCs, saving users thousands of pounds.
W3C Calls for Web 2.0 Data Sharing
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called for social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter to share profiles and data, to grow further Web 2.0 opportunities.
Google Latitude Let Users Track Colleagues on Maps
A Google application called Latitude lets users track friends, family and colleagues via Google Maps on a PC or mobile device. Google says Latitude is available on BlackBerry, S60 and Windows Mobile devices, and is coming to the Apple ...
New VMware Open-Source Client Heralds New Devices
VMware View Open Client, released 3rd February, will most likely boost the number of thin-client devices from Wyse, HP and Sun.
Citrix: the Virtual Route to Sustainable IT
Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers. What, we asked Citrix, is so green about virtualization?
Skype 4.0 for Windows Updates VOIP
The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth manager, a new audio codec that improves call quality and easier setup, Skype says.
Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo
Many people send e-mail messages while exhausted, angry or inebriated that they later regret. As part of Google's quest to attract users to its Gmail service, the Internet search and messaging and collaboration company has introduced d ...
Box.net Becomes Social Content Management Service
Box.net, which began life as a file management and file-sharing platform in a cloud computing environment, is becoming a more robust content management provider. The startup adds profiles, discussions, bookmarks and other messaging, co ...
Microsoft to Blitz Market with Six Editions of Windows 7
It's official: Microsoft will release at least six versions of Windows 7, following the same marketing approach it took with Vista. Joe Wilcox says some things Vista shouldn't have been repeated.
Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting ...
Google Earth Beta 5 Lets Users Explore Ocean Floor
Google's latest update to Google Earth includes several new features to view, including the three-dimensional renderings of the ocean floor, historical satellite imagery and maps of Mars. This is the first update to Google Earth since ...
Google Apps Draws Enterprise Users
Despite summer outages for Google Gmail and Google Apps that left some analysts questioning whether Web-based applications were right for the enterprise, a new report from Google claims that 10 million individuals from over 1 million b ...
Who Is the Best Skype Suitor? Google, Microsoft or Yahoo?
It's impossible for eBay to report quarterly earnings without the usual deliberations about what the company could, would or should do with Skype. So it comes as no surprise that media hounded eBay CEO John Donahoe about the VOIP unit, ...
Adobe AIR, Flash Installations Surge
At Adobe MAX Japan, Adobe announces that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 have reached record adoption numbers to the tune of 100 million installations for Adobe AIR within a year of its release and Flash Player 10 being installed o ...
Songsmith Sings Microsoft’s Hope
Incubation projects can save Microsoft. The company needs them now more than ever.
How I Harness My Twitter Stream
For the past few months, I've been using Twitter, the microblogging service that you may well be sick of hearing about. Right off the bat, I was attracted to Twitter because the 140 characters per entry that Twitter allows add up to ab ...
Google Finally Enables Offline Access for Gmail
Google's long-awaited offline access for Gmail is here, bringing a sigh of relief to users of Google's messaging and collaboration software. Google Apps Standard Edition users will be able to access it immediately with a few steps, whi ...
Is Java to Blame for Sun Layoffs?
eWEEK readers weigh in on Sun Microsystems' woes and the reason Sun is laying off over 6,000 employees. Is Java to blame? Some say inroads from other languages and application development frameworks such as Ruby on Rails could further ...
IE 8 and Windows 7 RC-Beta Mashups
Microsoft gives and gives more. On the 23rd January, the company extended the download availability of Windows 7 Beta 1. Yesterday, 26th January, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1. But the two shall never meet.
Oracle Ups Ante vs. Salesforce.com with CRM On Demand Refresh
Revving its SAAS enterprise applications engine, Oracle introduces Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16. The latest iteration of Siebel cloud computing applications boasts custom object support, better BI and partner relationship management ...
Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawns Cloud Foundry
The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services solutions and Google App Engine to h ...
Firefox Plug-in Lets Users Import Google Notebook to Zoho
Messaging and collaboration SAAS company Zoho updates its Firefox plug-in for Zoho Notebook to make it easy to import a Google Notebook to Zoho's cloud computing environment. The move is a shrewd one on the part of Zoho, which is lo ...
Microsoft Releases Web Platform Installer
Microsoft delivers Version 1.0 of its Web Platform Installer (Web PI), a free download manager that enables developers to install the Microsoft Web Platform or at least part of it. Web PI simplifies the installation of Microsoft's deve ...
Yahoo Turns on Wikipedia SearchMonkey App but Twitter Is the BOSS
Yahoo unleashes the SearchMonkey Wikipedia application, a Web service that augments Yahoo search results with Wikipedia articles. Will SearchMonkey, a jewel of application development for Yahoo, fall prey to new CEO Carol Bartz' plans ...
Intel, Citrix Collaborating on Desktop Virtualization
Intel and Citrix are planning to bring desktop virtualization technologies to a wider enterprise audience by combining their respective capabilities to make running and managing virtual machines within corporate desktops and notebooks ...