Microsoft offers browser choices

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition | February 28, 2010
Microsoft is to ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch to a rival web browser.

MS and Oracle’s big dev tools – who needs ‘em?

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Viva Emacs and Vim

A chunky Visual Studio 2010 releases soon, packing more features and representing perhaps more hours of development than any other single vendor's development tool.…

Microsoft fluffs Feds with secure cloud

Team Register | February 27, 2010

Google beater

Microsoft has beaten rival Google to deliver a version of its online applications tailored for US government users.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Twitter permission for US troops

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition | February 26, 2010
US forces are to be allowed to use social networking websites following a review by the defence department.

Intel and Yahoo! spawn open-source ‘Tashi’ cluster

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Big Data goes back to school

Backed by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel, the computer science mavens at Carnegie Mellon University have added a new compute cluster to the worldwide Open Cirrus test bed, a collection of clusters designed to explorer the frontiers of interwebs-scale distributed computing.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Fedora 13 Alpha release delayed

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Tuesday ties makes for 7 day truancy

Fedora Project developers said they will push back the first alpha release for Fedora 13 by one week.…

Tuned images from water mission

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition |
The first fully calibrated images from the European Space Agency's Smos satellite have now been released.

Parallels fondles Steve Jobs’ bare metal

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VMs gets cozy with Apple Xserve

Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor for servers built by the Jobsian cult.…

IBM quietly shoves ISS wares into Tivoli

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Services only, please

IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) products have quietly been booted from Big Blue's global services business and into the ever-expanding Tivoli brand product line, The Register has learned.…

Frauds website organiser jailed

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A man who ran a website trading in stolen financial information linked millions of pounds in losses has been jailed.