Friday, September 24, 2010
IBM to open three analytics centers in Europe The centers will focus on finances, transporation, supply chain and other areas, IBM said
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Sweden pushes for creation of a single EU patent system The creation of the so-called Community Patent has eluded policy makers for over 30 years but a Swedish diplomat said progress is possible 
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Blogosphere: Windows 7's removable IE8 You have to take it with a grain of salt when Microsoft positions changes to the Windows 7 release candidate that allow IE 8 and Media Player to be removed from the OS as being about “consumer choice”
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Simple plan for greener data centres Simply turning up the temperature in your data centre can cut down your energy bills, says storage network association chief 
Monday, December 22, 2008
Undersea cable cut disrupts Internet, phone traffic Damage to three major underwater data lines in the Mediterranean sea hampered Internet and telephone traffic between Europe, the Middle East and Asia 
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Gartner: Big drop in plans to adopt SOA According to the survey, 53 per cent of the respondents were already using SOA. Another 25 per cent were not using it but had plans to do so in the next 12 months
Thursday, November 13, 2008
$300 billion lost as IT spending slows down The next four years will be grim as companies around the world cut down on IT spending according to IDC
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
New Nvidia $3,500 graphics board not for gamers World of Warcraft players not wanted. The Quadro FX5800's 240 graphic processor cores are strictly for serious financial modeling and medical imaging
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Clear benefits to open source, UK survey says Fifty four per cent of businesses in the U.K. said the benefits of open source outweighed any negative aspects, and Gartner predicts 80 per cent of software will have open source components by 2012
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Korea fines Intel $25 million for antitrust violations The Commission said Intel offered rebates to South Korean computer makers if they agreed not to buy chips from Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices, a practice it said was in violation of fair trade rules
Friday, May 16, 2008
Google Street View to be launched in EU As Google Street View prepares to launch in Europe, the EU's data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx has urged Google to respect local privacy rules. Although he hasn't been in direct contact with the Internet search giant about Street View, Hustinx is very aware of it.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Europeans less willing to send work offshore: Forrester Unlike organizations in the U.S. and Britain, firms on the continent are still testing the waters
Monday, April 07, 2008
Software-as-a-service sails across the Atlantic A new survey shows a significant number of European organizations will adopt the technology in the next two years
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Swedish firm hope to keep spam out of blog search results Company comes up with a new way it says will lower the odds of blogs filled with spam
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Explosive demand expected for .asia domains The not-for-profit DotAsia organization will plow fees back into education, research and development work to bridge the digital divide
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
UK university networking labs get dedicated fibre A government-funded computer network for education researchers has launched a dedicated fibre network to help research on future networking technologies.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Global IT spending to drop: Forrester Forrester Research has changed its 2008 forecast for IT purchasing around the world, cutting its prediction by three points 
Monday, February 04, 2008
Microsoft-Yahoo deal poses privacy concerns, say industry experts If Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is accepted, privacy groups are threatening a fight before U.S. regulatory agencies. Microsoft announced that it sent an offer to Yahoo's board of directors last Thursday, going public with the news Friday morning. 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Microsoft to fund IT training in developing world The software giant will put out US$235 million to train 270 million students, teachers
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Europe leading U.S. in drive for greener data centres As the threats of power failure and excessive costs mount, firms on two major continents are taking a closer look at how they manage the environmental impacts of their IT infrastructure
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Acer masters the Art of War Acer Inc. executed a master stroke in the global war for PC market share with its US$710 million purchase of Gateway Inc., but it may take a while for the market to see the light. 
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Storage trade group gets green makeover SNIA has suddenly sprouted green leaves with a task force, working party, and tutorial all directed to making products more environmentally friendly
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Wii winning in Europe despite 1 million PS3s unit sales The PlayStation 3 (PS3) console has reached 1 million unit sales in PAL regions, including the U.K. and the rest of Europe.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Politicians must get creative, says German e-government expert Politicians should be more creative decision-makers, instead of bureaucratic, according to the director of e-government at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems in Berlin, Germany. There is a need for seamless process in the delivery of e-government services across all levels, but the challenge to this process is bureaucracy, Michael Tschichholz said in his keynote address yesterday to delegates at the 2007 Lac Carling Congress at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Oracle user group cancels European conference The EMEA Oracle Usergroup Council (EOUC) has cancelled without explanation a user conference due to be held in Amsterdam next month. Industry observers have speculated that poor attendance may have been to blame for the cancellation.