Botnet shutdowns have stemmed the Internet spam flood, taking daily message volumes back to levels last seen as long ago …
Facebook begins organ donor initiative
Facebook yesterday announced an initiative to inspire members of the social network to post their organ donor status, offering a …
Cisco creates 115 new IT jobs
Cisco has announced plans to create 115 new jobs in its research and development (R&D) facility in Galway, Ireland. The …
Google makes BigQuery available to all
BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analysing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period …
SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA
SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of …
HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centres
Western Digital company HGST yesterday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive …
Microsoft, Barnes & Noble deal could lead to Windows-based tablet, analysts say
Microsoft’s new partnership with Barnes & Noble could lead to development of a Windows-based tablet or e-reader, not just a Nook e-reader application for …
VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service offering …
Symantec: Small-company security problems can threaten large corporate nets
Attackers used smaller businesses with less stringent security as gateways to their ultimate targets – large corporations or governments that hold valuable …
Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform
Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner …
Small businesses are the vast majority of Google Apps early adopters
While Google is pitching Google Apps as an ideal productivity solution for enterprises, a large majority of its early adopters …
Targeted attacks increased, became more diverse in 2011
The number of security vulnerabilities declined in 2011 but malicious attacks skyrocketed 81 percent from 2010, according a new Internet …
Slow uptake of Windows 8 preview hints at lack of interest
Windows users appear half as interested in trying out the new Windows 8 as they did three years ago when …
IDC: Data centres increasingly overwhelmed by business demand
Businesses are struggling to ensure their data centres cope with demand, according to analyst house IDC. Chris Ingle, an associate …