David Neal, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 11:58:00 Accusations cover nine Microsoft patents in CRM offerings Microsoft has filed a legal action against Salesforce, claiming that the company has infringed on nine of its patents. Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual…
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Microsoft slaps Salesforce with patent suit
When UKTV launched “Watch” eighteen months ago, it was seen as a fresh new brand, but the channel that is jointly owned by the BBC Worldwide brand and Virgin Media will now be getting a new look and feel. This follows the broadcaster’s announcement that it was taking ideas and pitches from agencies on the rebrand
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Watch is rebranded by UKTV
Computer users who use Amazon should be aware that emails which look like they come from the book seller could be fakes and contain a Trojan too! The email appears to be confirming an order, which for someone who has not ordered anything is going to start alarm bells ringing as they may think that their account has been compromised.
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Amazon email contains Trojan
The broadband and telecoms provider BT is rolling out a service for staff that it hopes will connect them in a new and yet very familiar way. Using the new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 system, BT is planning to create a sort of Facebook for BT staff, which it hopes will help improve communications throughout the company and allow groups to work together in a new way
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BT to roll out staff social site
The digital switchover currently taking place around the UK may appear to be random, but the organisation behind the digital television revolution, Digital UK, appears to have the scheme in hand as it prepares to move to the Channel Islands. In order to prepare the residents of the islands for the switchover, Digital UK will be running a series of ad campaigns to raise awareness of the switchover. This covers what residents of the Channel Islands need to do to make sure that they keep their TV going without any interruptions
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Switchover starts on Channel Islands
Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 08:00:00 Firm promises trouble-free transition to latest Microsoft OS Parallels has finally made available its Desktop Upgrade tool designed to help PC users upgrade painlessly from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7….
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Parallels ships Desktop Upgrade for XP to Windows 7 migrations
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 02:27:00 Mark Hurd trumpets strong quarterly sales HP has reported a 13 per cent rise in quarterly sales to more than $30bn (£21bn) after strong PC buying from businesses and consumers….
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HP profits jump on renewed PC buying
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 01:47:00 Data formats placed in nuke-proof bunker under Swiss mountain Work has begun on storing as complete a record as possible of old data formats so that future generations can decipher old data streams….
PageSense 7.1, the latest version of QualityLogic's industry-standard printer/MFP performance measurement tool, is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2 and Windows XP SP3. This version introduces support for the new Microsoft Office…( read more )
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PageSense® 7.1 Release – New Office 2010 App Support, New Features
There are two really big reasons you should care about the greening of the U.S. House of Representatives, and of the branch offices associated with Capitol Hill.
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Green IT initiative saves $2,000 daily in electricity bill for Capitol Hill
There has been some debate here on ZDnet in the past few months over the energy efficiency profile of the cloud, especially since Greenpeace came out blasting the high-tech industry at large for not thinking through the power equation properly.So, it is perhaps natural that one of the keynote presentatations during the opening day of
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4 power advantages of cloud computing
YouTube turns 5 this month, but that number only begins to tell the story of how far it has come since its early days as a lean start-up launched above a pizza parlor. To celebrate the fifth birthday of its child star, Google (which owns YouTube) today announced that the video-sharing site now serves more than 200 billion views a day
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YouTube Turns 5, Hits 2 Billion Views a Day
We’re delighted to see that some of the first customers to try LexJet Sunset Photo Metallic paper for inkjet photo printing are helping us spread the word. For example, we noticed that photographer Jack V. Johnson had written about Sunset Photo Metallic on his blog.
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First Users of Sunset Photo Metallic Begin to Spread the Word
Is your data center able to adapt to fluctuating operating conditions? Or, does it requires lots of human intervention to accommodate temperature changes and cooling needs triggered by dynamic workloads?In the spirit of Darwin’s evolution theory — the species that can adapt seamlessly to new conditions are the ones that will carry on — SynapSense
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Applying Darwin’s theory to cooling technology
Someone said something to me that really stuck in my head all night: “We believe, in fact, that conservation is the biggest reservoir of ‘new’ energy out there.” Or words to this effect.I got to thinking about this because of some videos that have been sitting in my inbox in the past two weeks.
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Energy efficiency, historic preservation not mutually exclusive
Though the attack now requires physical access to the car, the researchers warn about the dangers of future network-connected cars. Never mind faulty electronic accelerators–researchers have now shown how to hijack a car’s electronic system, overriding the driver’s control over both its brakes and engine
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Researchers Hijack a Car’s Brakes and Engines
The roll-out of 3D-capable LCD television continues to pressure prices of older 2D models enough to overwhelm support from any recovery in retail. We’ve previously discussed this effect for 30”-39” LCD sets ( “LCD Prices Fall So Flat They Look Good In 2D ”) as well as 2D Blu-ray players ( “ Blue Light Special On Blu-ray ”); now in a recent press release we’re seeing something very similar for larger models, as captured by the action of the PriceSCAN 46” 1080p LCD Index . That index dropped 2.6% last week, erasing most of a 3.3% rally that occurred three weeks ago as consumer demand showed new signs of life
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3D Effect Continues To Pancake 2D LCD Prices
IMI’s 3rd Annual Digital Printing Presses – The Next Era Conference on June 9-11, 2010 at the Radisson Resort Orlando-Celebration in Kissimmee (Orlando), Florida. A downloadable color brochure and online registration is available at www.imiconf.com Conference presentations below will address new technologies, opportunities and challenges in the digital printing press world. Take advantage of this unique forum to interact “one on one” with digital press industry leaders – rather than in a massive trade show environment. Discuss the real business impact of new developments and all those IPEX demonstrations and introductions.
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IMI’s 3rd Annual Digital Printing Press Conference
Earlier this year, Hewlett-Packard Company entered the market of 3D-printers by making a cooperation agreement with the Stratasys, and in May the first product of joint work of engineers of the two companies — Printer Designjet 3D — will be available on the markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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HP Introduced Own 3D Printer
I write this as I slog through the complexity and confusion that is eBay’s “eBay Selling” app for the iPhone (selling my Dad’s old Palm Pre)– at this moment, I’m literally waiting for eBay’s app to upload photographs, my 5th attempt to get the Palm Pre listed on eBay through this iPhone app!! Someone needs to do an auction website + app for the iPhone that’s dead simple — like Posterous does for blogging. Posterous’s tagline on their frontpage is “the dead simple place to post everything” and I want to see “the dead simple place to sell anything.” Let me pre-fill my preferences and what-not on their website. Then point my iPhone’s camera at what I want to sell and take some photos
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Why isn’t there a ‘Posterous’-like auction site?