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Dresdner Kleinwort moves datacentre out of London

Dresdner Kleinwort is moving a key datacentre out of London's Docklands area, in a bid to cut energy bills and improve power reliability.

Barracuda slaps counter-suit on Trend Micro

Barracuda Networks is counter-suing Trend Micro for infringement of three security patents that Barracuda acquired earlier this year from IBM, the company has announced.

Xandros buys Linspire to boost enterprise credibility

Linux company Xandros has bought Linspire, another open source distributor in a bid to increase its presence in the enterprise, an executive announced.

Google holds contest for developers

If calculating the maximum height at which an egg won't break when dropped while sacrificing the least number of eggs sounds like a worthy challenge to a programmer, then this year's Google Code Jam may be of interest.

Google gives away free Web application security scanner

Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications.

Microsoft boosts its interoperability efforts

Microsoft has unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new translator for exchanging OOXML (Office Open XML) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents.

IT buyers 'won't pay a premium' for green products

IT organisations are reacting against a tightening economy and a perceived vendor "greenwash" by saying they are not prepared to sacrifice hardware performance for environmental considerations.

Cognos business intelligence software ported to System z

IBM's Cognos 8 BI (business intelligence) software is now generally available for System z mainframes running Linux.

Reliance Security reduces software testing time by 80%

Reliance Security Services has reduced software testing times by 80 percent after long development and testing cycles had meant users were losing confidence in its systems.

Cisco pledges 25% reduction in greenhouse target

Cisco will cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its worldwide operations by 25 percent by 2012.

Judge lets settlement in ConnectU vs. Facebook stand

Dating website ConnectU won't get more money out of Facebook after the two settled a dispute earlier this year.

Fujitsu launches £44 million Green datacentre

Fujitsu has opened a £44 million green datacentre in a former warehouse, which it claims will use half the energy of current datacentres.

BBC iPlayer gets an upgrade

The BBC has overhauled the interface and added more functions to its iPlayer service.

Eclipse to announce 23 updates

The Eclipse Foundation is set to make available today its annual coordinated release of open source projects, which this year includes some 18 million lines of code and updates to 23 different projects.

Ubuntu releases developer kit for mobile devices

Ubuntu Linux has released the first developers' version of its new Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 operating system, aimed at device manufacturers.

Security warning on Avaya, Cisco and Nortel VoIP systems

Organisations using Avaya, Cisco and Nortel VoIP systems have been warned about vulnerabilities that could result in remote code execution; unauthorised access; denial of service; and information harvesting.

Mozilla share soars after 3.0 hits web

On the back of the release last week of Firefox 3.0, the Mozilla open-source browser has gained market share at the expense of rivals Internet Explorer (IE) and Safari, Net Applications has said.

Firefox nears 20 percent market share

Mozilla's Firefox web browser has gained market share at the expense of rivals Internet Explorer (IE) and Safari following the release of Firefox 3.0.

Ruby creators warn of serious flaws

The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could allow attackers to take over an organisation's web server, according to the Ruby development team.

Nokia buys Symbian, makes OS open source

Nokia announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, a UK-based mobile phone operating system developer, for £208 million, and will open the software in a move seen as a response to new rival, Google's Android.

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