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Article | 7/05/2010 Microsoft gets some heat over HTML 5 plans

Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming...

Article | 6/05/2010 Apple's behavior a throwback to 1984, Adobe CTO says

Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone hurts innovation and is "like 1984 in a lot of ways," Adobe Systems' CTO said on Wednesday, implying that...

Article | 4/05/2010 Google invests in firm that tries to predict the future

Google has invested in a startup company that claims to be able to predict the future.

Article | 1/05/2010 Google explains why it became an energy trader

Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers.

Article | 30/04/2010 Google: Crank up the heat in your data center

Google's top energy executive has offered some simple steps for making data centers more energy-efficient, including raising the thermostat to 27 degr...

Article | 28/04/2010 HP moves high-end Superdome to blade platform

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled some major updates to its Integrity line of Itanium-based servers, including a new edition of its top-end Superdome syste...

Article | 22/04/2010 HP to overhaul Integrity servers next week

Hewlett-Packard is gearing up for a major refresh of its Integrity server line, an important step for customers using those systems and also for the f...

Article | 21/04/2010 VMware revenue climbs 35 percent on 'pent-up demand'

VMware's revenue jumped 35 percent in the first quarter, the company said Tuesday, another sign that businesses are opening their wallets again for en...

Article | 17/04/2010 Office 2010 clears last hurdle to release

Microsoft Office 2010 hit a big milestone on Friday with its "release to manufacturing," paving the way for the software's delivery to customers start...

Article | 15/04/2010 Twitter courts developers with new tools

Twitter is promising new tools for developers to help them make better use of the 55 million tweets being pumped out every day by people who use its s...

Article | 15/04/2010 Biz Stone says Twitter has 105 million users

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams shared some long-awaited usage figures for the service and sought to assure developers that Twitter is...

Article | 14/04/2010 IBM unveils Power7 blades, new edition of AIX

IBM is beefing up its server line-up with the first blades based on its Power7 processor, the company announced Tuesday. It is also introducing a new,...

Article | 6/04/2010 Microsoft ending support for Itanium

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel's Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting...

Article | 1/04/2010 Tech provider for Microsoft's Project Natal revealed

An Israeli startup stepped out from behind the curtain Wednesday and revealed itself as the technology provider for Microsoft's Project Natal, the upc...

Article | 31/03/2010 Greenpeace says the cloud is a carbon polluter

A new report from Greenpeace warns that the growth in cloud computing will be accompanied by a sharp rise in greenhouse gas emissions, and calls on bi...