When is a web application not a web application? When it's running on your desktop. But what if that desktop application needs the web to do anything meaningful? Rich internet applications (RIAs) are blurring the boundaries between web, browser and desktop - and they could revolutionise the way your employees and customers interact with your company.

A guide to using social media for business

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Author: Karl Flinders
Date: 27 July 2009

Businesses should be listening to online discussions now to enable them to take advantage of social media, a social media consultant advises.

Oracle OpenWorld: next-generation Fusion and Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Author: Computer Weekly reporter
Date: 15 October 2009

Oracle OpenWorld closed on Wednesday with CEO Larry Ellison lifting the covers of the firm's next-generation Fusion applications, but finding the show...

Websense offers security cloud service

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Author: Warwick Ashford
Date: 02 November 2009

Internet scanning firm Websense has launched a cloud-based security service for third-party service providers to use for their own products and services.

IBM opens cloud computing disaster recovery centres

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 20 August 2008

IBM is investing $300m (£150m) on customer disaster...

Retail Solutions 2008: Borders launches online shop

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 25 June 2008

Borders UK online shop which...

eBay fights £30m counterfeit trading fine

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 01 July 2008

eBay has come out fighting against yesterday's record £30m...

TCO calculator saves mainframe MIPs

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 07 July 2009

Businesses running IBM zSeries mainframes can now see how much they could save by offloading workloads to IBM's add-on zIIP processor. The z Integrated...

Google Apps campaign steps up Microsoft rivalry

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Author: Warwick Ashford
Date: 03 August 2009

Google has launched a campaign aimed at publicising news of organisations switching to Google Apps as it steps up its rivalry with Microsoft.

IBM mounts Google challenge with LotusLive iNotes

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Author: Simon Quicke
Date: 02 October 2009

IBM mounts Google challenge with LotusLive iNotes by Simon Quicke 2 October 2009 IBM is set to take on Google with the launch of a corporate...

Google to pay Rubens Barrichello $500K damages

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Author: Karl Flinders
Date: 10 November 2009

Google will have to pay formula one driver Rubens Barrichello half a million dollars in damages because it hosted fake profiles of him on social networking site Orkut.

Google, MySpace and Yahoo back internet standard for social networking applications

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 27 March 2008

Google, MySpace and Yahoo have given their backing to OpenSocial, an internet standard designed to make it easier for users and commercial software companies to build social networking applications.

Ann Summers outsources web hosting

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 05 June 2008

Ann Summers, the lingerie and accessories chain, has outsourced its website hosting and management to Claranet to gain service levels of 99.9% uptime, better security and scalability, and relegate network failure points.

Cloud computing as important as e-business, says Gartner

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 27 June 2008

Cloud computing will be as influential...

Taylor Woodrow uses Google Apps to cut costs

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Author: Warwick Ashford
Date: 01 July 2008

Construction firm Taylor Woodrow ...

Government data monster mashup

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 04 July 2008

The UK government has launched a competition to encourage programmers to tap into the gigabytes of government information by building mashup ...

Transoft middleware allows database transfer without new code

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 10 July 2008

Middleware from legacy software specialist Transoft could help businesses modernise their Cobol ...

Firms not realising business potential of social networking

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Author: Joe O'Halloran
Date: 15 July 2008

Leading analyst belives that social networking will become increasingly important to the competitiveness of large enterprises

Dell fails to trademark ‘cloud computing’

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 19 August 2008

The US Patent and Trademark Office has refused to allow Dell ...

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