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Byte Night 2010 Aims To Raise More For Kids

Once again, the British IT industry is raising money for homeless youth, and eWEEK Europe will be there

14 years ago

Microsoft Hits Salesforce With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Microsoft has gone legal and slapped Salesforce.com with a patent infringement lawsuit, alleging its CRM service infringed nine Redmond patents

14 years ago

Symantec Nearing Deal For VeriSign Security Unit

Symantec is reportedly on the acquisition hunt again, after rumours suggested it may be close to a deal with VeriSign…

14 years ago

Ofcom Lets Small ISPs Off Filesharing Laws

Ofcom plans to exempt small ISPs from the Digital Economy Act's anti file-sharing measures

14 years ago

Rackspace Plans UK Cloud Services

Hosting company Rackspace is bringing its cloud services to the UK, using a green data centre in Slough

14 years ago

Facebook Launches Fast Free Mobile Option

Facebook's new 0.facebook.com address does not incur expensive data charges - and will soon be available through 3 UK

14 years ago

CA Launches Chorus To Make Mainframes Cool

CA's Chorus is intended to give mainframes the kind of tools that younger staff need

14 years ago

New Microsoft Windows 7 Flaw Found

Microsoft says disabling Aero will keep Windows 7 users safe from unlikely attacks on this flaw

14 years ago

Reding Says Google Does Not Respect EU Rules

Google flouted EU rules in its Wi-Fi data harvest, says Commissioner Reding. There will be a reckoning

14 years ago

CEO: HP To Put Palm WebOS On Printers

Chief excutive Mark Hurd promises Palm WebOS on printers during a financial call

14 years ago

Facebook Promises to Clean Up Its Privacy

Facebook's director of public policy promises changes in radio interview

14 years ago

Google Could Face Regulatory Probes Over Wi-Fi Gaffe

Google's admission that it accidentally collected Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars may well land the search engine giant…

14 years ago

HP Unveils Location App for Android, BlackBerry

Researchers at HP have revealed they are working on Gloe, an app that lets users search for, tag and bookmark…

14 years ago

Government To Appoint Broadband Minister

A new broadband minister could be appointed "later this week", according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

14 years ago

Spiceworks Finds Growing Confidence And Expanding IT Budgets

IT departments within the SMB community are expanding their budgets and jumping on the virtualisation and cloud bandwagon

14 years ago

Brits Could Face Unsecured Wi-Fi Fine

After a German court recently introduced fines for users with unsecured Wi-Fi networks, there are fears that UK users could…

14 years ago

Electoral Commission’s Data Protection Policies In Question

The UK Electoral Commission admits that it has no system in place to monitor the activities of users who are…

14 years ago

CEOs Want To Get Creative, Says IBM

Chief executives see the world getting more complex, and want to get creative in response, according to an IBM survey

14 years ago

Green Expert Warns Energy Execs About Complacency

Smart grids could save our world, but the planet itself doesn't care – it has seen worse, says climate change…

14 years ago

Utilities Blamed For Stalling Smart Grid Roll-outs

Large energy companies are worried about handing over too much information to customers via smart grid and meter projects, experts…

14 years ago

IT Industry Hit Hard By UK Government Cuts

The IT industry will be hit by spending cuts in the UK budget, but green vendors could see fresh opportunities

14 years ago

Rumours Of Intel And Infineon Deal Emerge

A German publication has reported a potential deal that would have Infineon selling its mobile chip business to Intel

14 years ago

Will Facebook Fears Make Users More Aware?

Now ordinary people are concerned about Facebook's privacy practices, Larry Walsh asks: will they change their behaviour?

14 years ago

Netbook Sales Expected To Grow To 58 Million

Research firm ABI predicts the market will keep growing this year with shipments totaling 58 million

14 years ago

Apple Could Ship 24 Million Next Gen iPhones

Apple could ship 24 million next-generation iPhones in 2010, according to a new report

14 years ago

Oracle Launches Enterprise Update To MySQL

Database and enterprise application giant Oracle has released the first major upgrade of the open source relational database since Oracle…

14 years ago

USB Worms And Disasters Top Threat List

McAfee's latest quarterly threat analysis found fewer exploits than last year - but evildoers are just as inventive as ever

14 years ago

Microsoft Gives Hotmail Social Networking Update

Microsoft has announced substantial updates to Windows Live Hotmail

14 years ago

Microsoft Pays £138m To Settle VirnetX Lawsuit

Microsoft is to pay $200 million (£138 million) in order to settle a patent-infringement suit from communications specialist VirnetX

14 years ago

Porn Controversy Sees Jimmy Wales Give Up Wikipedia Admin Rights

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has given up his admin rights, after he angered editors by removing images that he deemed…

14 years ago