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RSS third quarterSun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps
News JavaFX Desktop 1.0 is expected to be available in the third quarter of this year. Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of keynote presentations designed to showcase JavaFX, the company's... [08 May 2008]
Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News Earlier on Thursday, Microsoft reported weak Windows sales for its fiscal third quarter ended in March and gave a forecast for the fourth quarter ending in June at the low end of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares down nearly five per cent. [25 Apr 2008]
UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
News Online banking fraud losses decreased a third from £33.5m in 2006 to £22.6m in 2007 but phishing incidents have climbed from 2,369 during the first quarter of 2006 to 3,394 for the same period in 2007 and to 10,235 in the first quarter of this year. [16 Apr 2008]
Nokia to release NFC phone this year
News Nokia will release the 6212 in Europe and Asia in the third quarter of 2008. Nokia has announced its upcoming handset, the 6212, will feature near field communication (NFC) technology, which will allows users to make connections with other NFC... [16 Apr 2008]
O2 slashes £100 off iPhone price
News Both Apple and O2 remain tight-lipped on the 3G iPhone speculation but analysts at the Bank of America predict Apple will launch the high-speed wireless version of the device in the second quarter of this year and produce up to eight million... [15 Apr 2008]
Changes to retail bricks to match online clicks
News According to a report from Visa Europe, more than a quarter of 300 retailers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK expect a drop in store numbers over the next seven years.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [09 Apr 2008]
Is your network performance getting you down?
News According to network monitoring company Network Instruments' research, three-quarters of network professionals cite 'identifying the source of a problem' as their primary troubleshooting concern - up a quarter on last year. [01 Apr 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment A quarter of CIOs said they will be outsourcing this year - mainly on the infrastructure, rather than application development/maintenance side - but none said they will be offshoring. Half of the CIO Agenda respondents said they will be investing... [26 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment In Symantec's study about one-third are lost laptops and USB drives and one-quarter is paper records. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. Hardly a week passes without another big data... [10 Mar 2008]
Ads popping up on US mobiles
News Nearly a quarter of all mobile phone users in the US say they have seen an advertisement on their phones in the past 30 days, according to a report from Nielsen Mobile, which tracks these trends. In the fourth quarter, there was a big jump in the... [05 Mar 2008]
iPhone bubble beginning to burst?
News One difference between the third and fourth quarter was the iPhone became available for sale in France, Germany and the UK through other carriers. AT&T, the exclusive US carrier of the iPhone, activated just 900,000 iPhones during the fourth... [25 Jan 2008]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News The deal is expected to close near the tail of Sun's fiscal third quarter, which ends in late March, or early in its fourth quarter. Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. [16 Jan 2008]
Do US businesses want Vista at last?
News The CDW survey also found an increase in Microsoft Office 2007 adoption with almost a quarter (24 per cent) of businesses saying they'd made the move, compared to just six per cent in the last survey. [16 Jan 2008]
SAP to sell TomorrowNow
News In its recent preliminary fourth quarter announcement, SAP noted in its footnote about its US Gaap (generally accepted accounting principles) requirements that the company is "required to present its results of discontinued operations [TomorrowNow... [16 Jan 2008]
Demand for tech workers hits six-year high
News The third quarter of 2007 also showed a decrease in average salaries, although the long term trend remains positive according to the REC, with the average wage having risen by around £100 per week compared to 2001. [08 Jan 2008]
