July 2010

MySQL appeals EC approval of Oracle’s Sun takeover

MySQL open source database author Michael Widenius has filed an appeal against the decision by European competition authorities to approve Oracle’s $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems.  Continue Reading

Hackers disrupt YouTube, iTunes and Wikipedia on US Independence Day

Several hacker groups hit top websites on US Independence Day, but it remains unclear if the malicious efforts were co-ordinated or not  Continue Reading

Apple says tests confirm iPhone 4 has best wireless performance ever

Apple has denied a design fault in the antennae of the iPhone 4 and has blamed instead the formula used to calculate signal strength.  Continue Reading

Buyer's Guide to the Connected Enterprise

Collaboration is changing.Time to rethink unified comms.  Continue Reading

An ethical hacker career : Tips to gear up for this option

Even as blackhat hackers remain on the prowl, ethical hackers save the day. Here are some pointers on how you can build your ethical hacker career.  Continue Reading

Seagate releases details of 3TB drive

Seagate has released a 3TB drive, but has not made a major areal density breakthrough as it uses five double-sided platters with 300GB per side.  Continue Reading

Video: Bentley opts to manufacture cars in silicon

The first Bentley to be designed and built completely in silicon, the £200,000 Mulsanne, will reach dealer showrooms within the next few months.  Continue Reading

Sneaking a smart phone into the enterprise

Are smart phones connected to the corporate network a good idea?  Continue Reading

AT&T Williams connects engineers to race with telepresence and real time network

For the past six years Chris Taylor has been IT manager for the AT&T Williams Formula One team.  Continue Reading

Interview: Simon Post, chief technology officer, Carphone Warehouse

The retailer's IT chief talks to Angelica Mari about his extended role, outsourcing plans and the BestBuy integration  Continue Reading

Chinese factory supplying HP, IBM and Cisco has 'cruel and inhuman' conditions

The National Labor Committee (NLC) has found what it calls "illegal and sweatshop conditions" at a Chinese...  Continue Reading

Apple gets its formula totally wrong

Well not its marketing formula anyway. I know this is not an outsourcing story but I couldn't resist putting it on the blog. I am sure a few of you are thinking about getting an iPhone 4 so this ...  Continue Reading

Taking a peek inside Adobe's open source portal

Adobe's open source portal lists the projects that the company is currently supporting with software code contributions.  Continue Reading

New York Stock Exchange puts a datacentre in Essex

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE...  Continue Reading

'Death by a thousand cuts' continues at Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group's Halifax business is cutting its workforce by 650, with back-office jobs in the firing line again.

The bank is closing an insurance...

Could informal talks save BT from "commercial suicide"

The result of the ballot of over 50,000 BT workers, over whether they want to strike or not, will be known on Monday (05 July). A source told me that only informal talks have occured during the ...  Continue Reading

Deutsche Bank boosts UK senior IT team

Former head of strategy for global technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank, Natasha Davydova, has been appointed managing director of group...