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RSS newsGoogle sheds light on netbook plans for Chrome OS
News For more details on the Chrome OS, see Google has its own plan for netbooks on CNET News.com. Google has taken the wraps off its Chrome OS for the first time. At an event held at its Mountain View HQ on Thursday, Google... [20 Nov 2009]
Arrested: Suspected Zeus Trojan distributors
News The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested two people earlier this month for the suspected criminal distribution of the Zeus Trojan. A spokesman for the Met Police told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Thursday that the... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Salesforce Chatter, pencilled in for a launch in the second quarter of 2010, allows users to create profiles and real-time news feeds to help them to work more effectively with their colleagues within the business. [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010: Beta launched
News For more, see Office 2010 beta goes public on CNET News.com. Office 2010 beta is now publicly available for download, Microsoft announced yesterday. New features include a social networking connector that allows users to... [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
For more on this story, see Salesforce to offer social networking for companies on CNET News. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house... [19 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
See New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes on CNET News for the full story. Mozilla released a third beta of Firefox 3.6 on Wednesday, adding stability and performance features, and said it hopes to lock down the code... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
For the full story, see Office 2010 beta goes public on CNET News. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from the company's website. Among the features new to the beta is... [19 Nov 2009]
T-Mobile workers accused over customer record sales
News T-Mobile employees have been accused of selling millions of customer records and could face prosecution by the UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office. The data alleged to have been sold included customers' names,... [18 Nov 2009]
Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world, according to a new list published late last week. The list names the fastest supercomputer as the Jaguar - otherwise known as the Cray XT5 supercomputer. [17 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment I just chanced upon a news story about an innocent New York teenager who had armed robbery charges dropped by prosecutors thanks to evidence provided by his Facebook activities. You can read the full story on the Sky... [16 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET News.com sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to talk Google Wave, Android and all things search. Google's Eric Schmidt talks to CNET News.com at Google's campus [16 Nov 2009]
IFRS News: Emerging Issues and Practical Guidance
White Paper This paper follows on from the article in last month's IFRS news on the lease accounting discussion paper. Marian Lovelace looks in more detail at the proposals announced in March and their implications for businesses. [13 Nov 2009]
Opportunities in Adversity: Responding to the Crisis
White Paper The economic news at the beginning of the New Year has made for grim reading. Headlines hype to attract attention and journalists simplify, but the collective media assessment of 2008 is clearly "economic crisis" and the... [13 Nov 2009]
Bing sheds its beta skin in the UK
News Microsoft has announced the UK version of its search engine Bing has shed its beta tag today. The UK localised version of its Google rival allows users to access UK-specific results and ecommerce sites. [13 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up More damning still is the news that for 12 per cent of men (versus seven per cent of women), the 'problem' was simply that the appliance in question wasn't plugged in or switched on. The bad news for... [13 Nov 2009]
