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Microsoft warns that Vista, XP upgrade blockers will expire

Microsoft is warning customers that tools for blocking automatic upgrades to the newest service packs of Windows Vista and Windows XP will expire in the coming months.

By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2009 10:58

Tags: windows xp

Microsoft: Next step for Windows 7 is a release candidate

The head of Microsoft's Windows development confirmed Friday that Windows 7 will take the unusual path of moving straight from a single beta, which was launched earlier this month, to a release candidate.

By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2009 11:19

Tags: Windows 7

Major Melbourne datacentre suffers complete power failure

An iPrimus datacentre in King St, Melbourne, suffered a complete power outage on Sunday, including failure of the emergency diesel backup system.

By Andrew Hendry | 02 February, 2009 13:54

Tags: datacentre

Rails 2.3 preview eyed for Monday

A release candidate for version 2.3 of the popular Ruby on Rails Web application development framework is being targeted for release today, the founder of the project, David Heinemeier Hansson, said on Friday.

By Paul Krill | 02 February, 2009 11:36

Tags: ruby on rails

Yahoo's Briefcase to close March 30

Yahoo's Briefcase online storage service, which soldiered on for almost 10 years with a distinctly Web 1.0 capacity of 30MB, is finally being shut down.

By Stephen Lawson | 31 January, 2009 11:56

Tags: Yahoo

Retailer to ship laptops with Intel's Core i7 chips

In an unlikely union of technologies, PC retailer Eurocom has said it will ship laptops powered by Intel's Core i7 processor, which the chip maker has dubbed the "fastest processor on this planet."

By Agam Shah | 02 February, 2009 01:53

Tags: eurocom, Core i7, intel

IBM expands SaaS ecosystem

IBM on Friday detailed a new ISV partnership, a move which, on the heels of cloud-related agreements penned last week with several universities, advances the company's cloud and SaaS realm.

By Tom Sullivan | 02 February, 2009 08:24

Tags: SaaS, IBM, Cloud

Hospitals with better IT have fewer deaths, study shows

The level of technology deployed by hospitals to help doctors and nurses automate their work can mean the difference between life and death, according to a recently-reported study. The study, involving more than 167,000 patients in 41 hospitals across the US, also showed that better IT lowered costs.

By Lucas Mearian | 02 February, 2009 08:32

Tags: it strategy

Nortel exits mobile WiMax to focus on high-return tech

Nortel Networks is dropping out of the mobile WiMax business entirely and will end an agreement with Israeli-company Alvarion to resell Alvarion mobile Wimax gear.

By Matt Hamblen | 02 February, 2009 08:41

Tags: WiMax, lte, nortel

Dell could join Acer in unveiling smart phone

When Dell stopped selling the Axim PDA in 2007, several industry observers predicted that the PC and server maker would eventually move on to sell smart phones.

Google researcher targets Web's structured data

Internet search engines have focused largely on crawling text on Web pages, but Google is knee-deep in research about how to analyze and organize structured data, a company scientist said Friday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 02 February, 2009 08:39

Tags: structured data

Gartner picks eight mobile techs to watch

Mobile user interfaces and a new version of Bluetooth top Gartner Research's list of mobile technologies to watch in 2009 and 2010.

By Brad Reed | 02 February, 2009 08:26

Tags: Gartner, bluetooth

NFL's Super Bowl IT team gets ready for game day

The National Football League is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that the NFL has assigned to work in Tampa, Fla., the site of this year's game.

UAC fix in Windows 7 creates security hole, blogger says

A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, according to a blogger who follows Microsoft closely.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 02 February, 2009 08:05

Tags: user account control, Windows 7

Industry giants to weigh in on US privacy laws

A group of U.S. companies, led by technology giants Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and eBay, is set to outline recommendations for new federal data-privacy legislation that could make life easier for consumers and lead to a standard federal breach-notification law.

By Robert McMillan | 02 February, 2009 07:25

Tags: privacy