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Article | 14/05/2012 Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront web hosting service

Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor.

Article | 21/04/2012 LightSquared wins two-year reprieve for spectrum payments to Inmarsat

LightSquared has a further two years in which to seek regulatory approval for its LTE mobile network in the U.S. before it must begin making payments ...

Article | 20/04/2012 Linux Torvalds shortlisted for 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

The Technology Academy Finland has shortlisted Linus Torvalds for its 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, worth over €1 million (US$1.3 million).

Article | 13/04/2012 SAP revenue rises 11 percent in first quarter, but margin shrinks

SAP published preliminary figures for its first-quarter results on Friday, showing revenue up 11 percent year on year, but margins shrinking with oper...

Article | 29/03/2012 Yahoo says it will implement do-not-track worldwide later this year

Yahoo websites worldwide will comply with visitors' "do not track" preferences starting later this year, Yahoo announced Wednesday.

Article | 27/03/2012 Bull seeks to move legacy Cobol and C apps to a Java environment

Bull has unveiled a new transaction processing application platform, Libert TP, which it says will allow businesses to move legacy applications from C...

Article | 21/03/2012 Browser survey puts Chrome in first place - for just one day

Google's Chrome browser overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer, all versions combined, to become the number one browser for a single day last weekend,...

Article | 21/03/2012 European privacy regulators search for answers on Google's new policy

The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has fired a salvo of questions at Google about the new privacy policy it introduced at ...

Article | 8/03/2012 Password store for iPhone protects you by letting attackers in every time

A password store that lets attackers in every time may not sound very useful, but researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information...

Article | 7/03/2012 Iceotope dips its servers in liquid to cut cooling costs

Even the most efficient air-cooled data centers waste 20 percent of their power running fans inside the servers, according to British liquid-cooling s...

Article | 7/03/2012 Linux Professional Institute seeks trainers and students

The Linux Professional Institute hopes to recruit more Linux trainers and students through two initiatives launched at the Cebit trade show in Hanover...

Article | 6/03/2012 Software AG plans to combine BigMemory and Business Events by year-end

By year-end, Software AG plans to offer real-time data analytics with a combination of BigMemory, the in-memory system for Java apps it obtained throu...

Article | 6/03/2012 Privacy not in Eric Schmidt's vision of the future

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt painted a messianic picture of our technological future on Monday, involving holographic telepresence, self-driving cars,...

Article | 6/03/2012 Fujitsu opens Saasification Factory to fill cloud app store

Fujitsu Technology Solutions has already convinced 50 independent software vendors (ISVs) to sell their business software through its online Business ...

Article | 3/03/2012 Apple and Samsung each lose a patent lawsuit in Mannheim

Apple and Samsung Electronics each saw patent lawsuits they had filed against one another dismissed by a German court on Friday. Samsung expects to ap...