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News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting malicious code on blog pages and... [23 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News It said OneTouch will now be phased in to all 16 of its company-owned coffee bars around the UK, with discussions taking place with franchise outlets to extend the tech across the entire chain in the coming year. [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News The company, owned and operated by Online Retail Travel Group (ORTG), offers consumers the ability to search, book and pay for flights through their mobile phone. Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be... [23 Jul 2008]
Users' privacy wins in YouTube vs Viacom
News The move comes after a federal court earlier this month ordered Google-owned YouTube to hand over usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories to Viacom - parent company of MTV. YouTube will be allowed to mask important user information from... [15 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Last month StopBadware.org, a site sponsored by Google, found that Google itself was one of the top five networks hosting malicious web pages, largely due to the popularity among attackers of Google-owned networks such as Blogger. [14 Jul 2008]
Only one in 10 Brits recycle old mobiles
News Mobile users have owned around five phones on average. Just one in 10 people in the UK recycle their old mobile phones. Past-it handsets are not necessarily ending up in the wheelie bin - they are more likely to be languishing in the nation's... [09 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Gartner claimed that around 10 per cent of companies have some form of employee-owned-device programme. A recent study from analyst house Gartner into employee-owned-notebook programmes, revealed that an increasing number of staff want to use their... [30 Jun 2008]
Google helps measure up audiences
News Nielsen Media is a unit of Nielsen Co, which is owned by a collection of top private equity firms. Google will offer advertisers a free media planning tool to help them locate target audiences on the web, a company spokesman said yesterday, posing... [24 Jun 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News MySpace, owned by News Corp since 2005, nevertheless remains far ahead of Facebook in the US, where both companies are based. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new... [24 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News You do not know which shops are owned by the Mafia but if you end up having to put your fingerprint on the glass every time that you buy a can of Coke, sooner or later the Mafia will have the biometrics of millions of people. [09 Jun 2008]
Indian tech companies on the move to tier two cities?
News Infopark at Kochi is a state government-owned IT Park. In five years, 1.7 million jobs in the IT sector in India will move out of tier one cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune, to tier two cities, Siddhartha Bhattacharya, CEO of... [02 Jun 2008]
Mobile fans won't hang up on old handsets
News In the latest silicon.com poll, the majority of the 388 respondents (28 per cent) said they've owned their current mobile phone for one to two years. People aren't getting bored or embarrassed about their ageing mobiles with most keeping their... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft considered Facebook move
News The talks were first reported by site All Things Digital, owned by Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones. Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo! [08 May 2008]
Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments
News Previously, the group was settling transactions with bank-owned PDQ terminals. Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in payments processing costs. [07 May 2008]
