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Microsoft widens its Live Mesh web
News Microsoft is expected to add more features by its Professional Developer Conference in October. Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who has (or signs up for) a Windows Live ID. The service, announced in April, lets people share... [18 Jul 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News During his keynote yesterday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, Ballmer said enterprise users will come to expect web-ready interfaces that are both familiar and as responsive as their desktop counterparts. [10 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News Speaking at a conference hosted by UK trade association for technology, Intellect, Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, said mobile broadband's rapid rise in popularity could help encourage fixed line operators to invest in next generation... [04 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News In a speech at the Homeland & Border Security Conference 2008 in London on Thursday, Admiral Lord West, parliamentary undersecretary of state for security and counter-terrorism, said that terrorists were increasingly harnessing technology to try... [04 Jul 2008]
Google Talk finds a home on iPhone
News During the CanSecWest conference, Miller found and used a buffer overflow in Safari in the Apple WebKit to win a $10,000 "Pwn to Own" contest. Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod... [04 Jul 2008]
RIM quarter profits up
News Almost 60 per cent of the additions during the quarter were "non-enterprise" RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie told analysts in a conference call. RIM posted a profit outlook yesterday that fell short of analyst expectations, sending its shares eight per... [26 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Luis Barroso, a Google engineer who closely studies the company's power consumption, speaking at the O'Reilly Velocity conference in California, said: "The data centre is a different device than the key targets for mobile electronics, laptops and... [25 Jun 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Speaking at a panel debate, at a Red Hat conference in Boston, entitled 'The OOXML battle: Who really won? Microsoft has admitted that, despite being one of the dominant names in IT for more than 30 years, it had little or no experience of software... [24 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user conference in Boston, Whitehurst said his company need to work on its approach to "mundane" issues such as its own internal systems and managing customer records. [20 Jun 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer, can perform one thousand trillion calculations per second. [19 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin, David Wood claimed there will be "multiple Androids in two years' time". Fabrizio Capobianco, the chief executive of Funambol - which makes personal information management and synchronisation... [13 Jun 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News Speaking at the IDC SecurityVision conference in Sydney on Thursday, Chris Gatford, senior security consultant for Pure Hacking, told delegates that the arrival of the iPhone in Australia and gradual adoption by business will "elevate risk to a... [12 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates that the open-source community needed to be 'educated' in the way the mobile industry currently works, because the industry has not yet moved beyond old... [12 Jun 2008]
HP rolls out mass overhaul of PCs
News HP, the world's largest PC manufacturer, rolled out 50 new products on Tuesday at a conference in Berlin, the largest such product refresh in the personal systems group's history. The company added new touches to just about all the group's products... [11 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Rishi Chandra, product manager for Google Enterprise, speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in the US, said: "The next 10 years of innovations are going to be in the cloud. Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing and... [11 Jun 2008]
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