Sharon Brennan, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 17:24:00 Firm launches SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 and Identity Manager 4 Novell has released an update to its SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 designed to offer improved virtualisation, availability and support.
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 16:40:00 Memory producers fined a total of €331m The European Commission has fined a selection of DRAM memory firms a total of €331m as part of an anti-trust settlement in a pricing cartel investigation….
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European Commission comes down hard on DRAM cartel
Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 15:58:00 But privacy group insists evidence must not be destroyed UK privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has asked Google to delete the private Wi-Fi data it has collected from homes and businesses….
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UK data watchdog calls on Google to delete Wi-Fi data
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 15:45:00 Big Blue uses Hadoop software to allow customers to manage data in all forms ROME: IBM has launched new software at its Information on Demand 2010 conference designed to help firms analyse and take advantage of the huge growth in data being generated by…
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IBM IOD 2010: IBM analytics tool targets data explosion
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 15:42:00 0.facebook.com involves no data charges, says firm Facebook is rolling out a new mobile site which it claims is much faster than its current m.facebook.com mobile application but still includes all the main features….
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 13:40:00 Decision Management software promises more effective business processes ROME: IBM has unveiled its latest software tool at the Information on Demand 2010 conference, designed to allow firms to quickly and accurately forecast any potential new business processes or…
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IBM IOD 2010: IBM launches ‘three-clicks’ analytics tool
Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 13:38:00 Web firm remains set on content strategy Yahoo has acquired a startup called Associated Content to continue its drive to become the web’s largest content portal. Associated Content allows users to create content and get paid according…
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Yahoo drives portal plans with Associated Content buy
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 13:35:00 Survey points to increased web use and changing surfing patterns British internet use has changed dramatically over the past three years, according to a survey into UK web habits by the UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM)….
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Brits spend a day a month online
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 13:07:00 Gartner reports strong quarterly figures for Q1 2010 Mobile phone shipments have grown by 17 per cent over the past year, according to the latest figures from Gartner….
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Global mobile phone sales up 17 per cent
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 12:45:00 Kelly Services study says IT has one of the highest concentrations of self-employed workers The recession has forced large numbers of IT professionals into self-employment, according to a global study by employment agency Kelly Services….
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Recession fuels self-employment in IT
Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 12:10:00 UK datacentres to deliver public cloud to SMEs and hybrid offering for enterprises Hosting firm Rackspace is preparing to bring its cloud services into the UK with a Xen-based offering for the SMB market, and hybrid public-private services based on VMware for larger…
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Rackspace brings cloud services to the UK
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 12:03:00 Security firm said to be after VeriSign’s authentication business Symantec is closing in on a deal to acquire VeriSign’s authentication business in a deal which could be worth as much as $1.3bn (£912m) and give Symantec a market-leading technology…
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Symantec closes in on VeriSign
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
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….
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
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