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Novell's OpenSUSE 11.1 has desktop features and an enviable community involvement strategy for tapping community involvement, but still a few rough spots. Can it stand up to Red Hat Fedora and Ubuntu from Canonical?
IT services company Lgica says that customers will still favour quality over price, even in a recession. But HP's UK director says he has seen competitors making "suicidal" offers
If your applications aren't behaving the way you expect, the problem may not be where you think. Peter Judge found that familiar, trusted software may not be quite what it appears
A two hour blackout of Google mail was blamed on "data centre overload" and new code bugs, by the company's official blog.
New support for open source from the UK government could lead to big savings as long as proprietary vendors don't hijack it, say commentators
Outages are only part of the problem for services on the web, says a City Law firm, warning cloud customers may face lawsuits over performance and data protection
Video conferencing specialist Polycom says its HD-ready system, will boost take-up of telepresence, and cut business travel, but analysts warn of slow uptake and hidden costs around the technology
Update: Gmail is back, after a two-hour outage. The company has not yet said how many people were affected, but twitter traffic from round the world reveals a major outage. That's a pain for millions of ordinary users - but it could be ...
Citrix is offering a management product for Microsoft's Hyper-V, and a free version of its own Citrix XenServe, in a bid to steal a march on VMware
Global recession is producing new locations for oursourcing, according to research - but companies should appreciate the risks involved
Microsoft is asking recently laid-off employees to return some of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid, according to reports. As the recession bites, Microsoft and IBM are both facing layoffs and bad publicity.
The economic slowdown and important developments in this market segment have allowed virtualized systems to grow at a strong rhythm.
Now the word is out: there is money to be made in sustainable IT, we can expect the usual feeding frenzy as vendors try to cash in. This time, we can't afford to fall for phony greenwash.
The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor Martin Read.
The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices
French computer maker claims solid-state, low power desktops are the future
Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, joining Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo in a big to to let users port port their data around the Web.
IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM Power Systems. Around five million developers and 22 million Internet domains use PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook.
The University of Liverpool's PowerDown can shut down idle PCs, saving users thousands of pounds.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called for social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter to share profiles and data, to grow further Web 2.0 opportunities.
A Google application called Latitude lets users track friends, family and colleagues via Google Maps on a PC or mobile device. Google says Latitude is available on BlackBerry, S60 and Windows Mobile devices, and is coming to the Apple ...
VMware View Open Client, released 3rd February, will most likely boost the number of thin-client devices from Wyse, HP and Sun.
Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers. What, we asked Citrix, is so green about virtualization?
The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth manager, a new audio codec that improves call quality and easier setup, Skype says.
Many people send e-mail messages while exhausted, angry or inebriated that they later regret. As part of Google's quest to attract users to its Gmail service, the Internet search and messaging and collaboration company has introduced d ...
Box.net, which began life as a file management and file-sharing platform in a cloud computing environment, is becoming a more robust content management provider. The startup adds profiles, discussions, bookmarks and other messaging, co ...
It's official: Microsoft will release at least six versions of Windows 7, following the same marketing approach it took with Vista. Joe Wilcox says some things Vista shouldn't have been repeated.
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting ...
Google's latest update to Google Earth includes several new features to view, including the three-dimensional renderings of the ocean floor, historical satellite imagery and maps of Mars. This is the first update to Google Earth since ...
Despite summer outages for Google Gmail and Google Apps that left some analysts questioning whether Web-based applications were right for the enterprise, a new report from Google claims that 10 million individuals from over 1 million b ...