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News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open source... [24 Jul 2008]
Domino's online sales pass 20 per cent
News Fast food takeaway chain Domino's Pizza UK has broken the 20 per cent mark in online sales for the half year ended 29 June - meaning one in five of its pizzas are now ordered over the web. The company said ecommerce sales grew by 85.1 per cent to... [21 Jul 2008]
Malware threat for iPhone 2.0
News With the ability to easily and affordably surf the web on the new iPhone, more consumers will shop and bank online, encouraging malware writers to develop new ways to capture this information. Expect malware targeted at iPhone 3G users over the... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out potential security flaws. The proxy works passively by analysing existing, user-initiated traffic, and is particularly tuned for complex... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google admitted that the system is comparable to long-established projects such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which is often used in Ajax web programming. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a... [11 Jul 2008]
Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News He said: "What we're seeing with the web is the way in which it can bring those things that computers are good at in co-ordination with what people are good at. Artificial intelligence technology (AI) is being used all around us but don't expect... [10 Jul 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News Almost a year after its beta launch, the BBC has added more functionality and improved the interface of the successful web TV service. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and... [25 Jun 2008]
Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News However, according to Foley, the backers of chief software architect Ray Ozzie will continue to focus on providing software via the web and making Microsoft a bigger player in this area. Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft chairman on 27 June... [24 Jun 2008]
Mobile phones key to paperless air travel
News Online sales and increased use of web 2.0 technologies can also deliver savings to the industry, said Sita chairman and British Airways CIO, Paul Coby. Mobile phones could be a godsend to the airline industry - saving time and therefore money. [20 Jun 2008]
Parliament websites go to the polls
News Parliament and politicians are increasingly making use of the web but it's now the public's turn to have a say on which MP has the best website. The BCS says the best sites will excite and inform constituents while being easy to navigate and make... [20 Jun 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks break down
News Microsoft shares rose more than four per cent as investors showed relief that the company would not be paying too high a price for a deal they considered risky - even though its biggest rivals on the web aimed to work together. [13 Jun 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News He said: "We're going to find a lot of executives using the iPhone's push email to combine their personal and business messages.combined with the ever-increasing use [on the iPhone] of web 2.0 applications, there are a lot of vulnerabilities. [12 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Chandra acknowledged that several well-established competitors, including Microsoft, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, and others are converging on the same market: delivering business applications via the web with the same reliability and security as... [11 Jun 2008]
iPhone 2.0: Lower price and "amazingly zippy"
News Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, said: "It's amazingly zippy," showing off the encore to a device that melds a mobile phone, iPod media player and web browser. The pay service will also offer web applications intended to make the phone work more like a... [10 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News Wi-fi on mobiles is expected to gain critical mass as the chipset costs decline - expected to fall 30 per cent by 2012 - and mobile web applications gain in popularity. As mobiles get more sophisticated, they will continue to be used for more... [06 Jun 2008]
