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12 March 2010
Implications of Ballmer's Cloud Announcement
Microsoft revealed this week plans to lower its data center budget from $500 million per project to $250 million or less, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
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11 March 2010
Opera Mini 5 Beta Has Arrived
All those Android smartphone owners who have been wondering when they can ditch the outmoded Opera Mini 4.2 browser in favor of the latest beta can now unfold their pouts, stop that kicking, and remove their pounding fists from the floor.
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10 March 2010
Twitter Feed to Appear on Yahoo Homepage
Yahoo and Twitter have reached an agreement to put Twitter feeds on various Yahoo sites, including the Yahoo home page as well as search, e-mail accounts, and Yahoo sites devoted to news, finance, sports and entertainment.
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09 March 2010
Uptime in E-Commerce
Though I can think of one or two recent examples of online retailers being unable to cope with 'unprecedented' traffic, the UK's e-commerce sites have a higher average availability rate than those of some European rivals.
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08 March 2010
"Final Third" of UK Miss Out on Fast Internet Access
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has announced a new national broadband campaign called 'The Final Third First' (FTF).
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08 March 2010
Open Source Data Centre Design
A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centres, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.
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04 March 2010
Google Launches Beta Version Of Chrome Browser
Google has launched a beta version of its next Chrome browser which includes a number of new innovations including additional privacy controls for users and the integration of translation functionality.
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04 March 2010
EC in discussions over basic telecoms for all EU citizens
The European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation on what is the best approach to ensuring that basic telecoms services are available for all EU citizens.
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25 February 2010
PDF, Flash, ActiveX flaws become hacker targets
The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.
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23 February 2010
Google Chrome erodes Microsoft IE market share
Recent market share statistics deliver good and bad news for Microsoft.
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22 February 2010
Adobe tightens security for Download Manager
Adobe is working on fixing a bug in Download Manager, the program Adobe uses to speed up downloads of its products.
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19 February 2010
Adobe Download Manager bug could give hackers access
Adobe Systems is working to fix a glitch in software it uses to speed up downloads of its products that could give hackers a way to push malicious programs onto a victim's PC.
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19 February 2010
WordPress network bug throws millions of blogs offline
Network problems knocked more than 10 million WordPress blogs offline in a two hour outage on 18 February.
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18 February 2010
France on the verge of Internet censorship
French lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic, a measure the government says is intended to catch child pornographers.
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18 February 2010
Apple Safari to crack first claims hacking contest organiser
Apple's Safari will be the first browser to fall next month at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organiser predicted today.
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15 February 2010
US hacker gets 13 years
A former US security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
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15 February 2010
Cisco pulls plug on Dell blade partnership
Cisco has walked away from the joint development of blade networking products with PC titan Dell, CRN has learnt.
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15 February 2010
Antivirus software fail to stop malware
Nearly a third of PCs protected by up-to-date antivirus software show signs of malware infection, a new analysis based on real-world scans has found.
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11 February 2010
European Parliament blocks bank data transfer to US
The European Parliament has blocked an agreement reached by the 27 EU national governments and the US last month to allow European citizens' personal financial data to be analysed by American authorities investigating the financing of terrorism.
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09 February 2010
Adobe sorry for 16-month-old Flash bug
Adobe apologised for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported.
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08 February 2010
Man gets 2.5 years for selling fake Cisco kit
A Chinese man has been sentenced to a two and half year stretch in a US prison for trafficking in counterfeit Cisco Systems gear.
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