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Credit crunch failing to hold tech back

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech trade body Intellect, forecast...

Tags: growth, globalisation, intellect, credit crunch

[02 May 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above" that amount, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[01 May 2008]

Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking has said.

Tags: microsoft, google, yahoo

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing body Fifa. Latest photo stories from silicon.com

Tags: outsourcing, fifa, satyam

[23 Apr 2008]

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in...

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by $60bn per year, according to...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine South Korea's most powerful businessman said yesterday that he would step down after 20 years at the head of the giant Samsung Group, following his indictment last week for tax evasion and breach of...

Tags: ceo, samsung, tax

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in devices from toasters to televisions.

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! ad-share gaining ground on Google?

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine New industry data out this week shows Yahoo! may have started gaining share in the web-search ad market against Google, even as Google's share of search audience inched up.

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[17 Apr 2008]

Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM applications. The companies announced that Salesforce.com's customers now have the...

Tags: salesforce, google

[14 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Yahoo! will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies have said, a move that raises the possibility of a significant departure from Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo, google

[10 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Google is offering web developers a slice of its own infrastructure by announcing the preview release of the Google App Engine platform, which provides access to the same database building blocks used...

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

Who's king of advertising? Web set to overtake TV

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The UK has the most developed online-advertising market in the world. According to the report by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Advertising Research Center...

Tags: tv, 4od, online ads

[09 Apr 2008]

Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road. The GreenRoad Technologies box will record 120 different driving manoeuvres and tell military drivers...

Tags: road, mod, army

[04 Apr 2008]

Intel registers second-gen Classmate

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The new laptop shares its basic hardware design with the first generation Classmate, as well as a focus...

Tags: low cost laptop, classmate, intel

[04 Apr 2008]

Microsoft smartens up for enterprise mobility

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft has announced it is smartening up its enterprise mobility strategy, making it easier for IT departments to deploy, manage and secure Windows Mobile phones while also streamlining business...

Tags: microsoft, mobility, windows mobile

[02 Apr 2008]

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