News & Events

• IT supplier MindTree celebrates 10 years in pictures

  Indian IT services provider MindTree is celebrating 10 years supporting the Spastics Society in Indian state Karnatica which was formed in 1999.  ....

• Directgov seeks ID authentication bids for public sector

  The government has invited tenders for "identity verification and authentication services", in an attempt to assess the public sector's need for something that will confirm a user's identity.  ....

• Royal Bank of Scotland cuts 1,000 IT jobs

  RBS is axing 1,000 technology jobs as part of a cull of 3,500 positions across the company.  ....

• VMWorld: VMware delivers virtual datacentre

  VMware has expanded its virtualisation...  ....

• Buyers guide to IT infrastructure

  Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business.  ....

• CSC extends cloud partnership with VMware, EMC and Cisco

  IT services provider CSC has joined forces...  ....

• Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere (PC World)

  PC World - More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according to NetMarketShare, a firm that produces metrics on the market share of browsers, operating systems and search engines.  ....

• Chrome Browser Updated After Two Years of Growth (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - Google's Chrome browser is now two years old, and the youngster -- and its proud parent -- are celebrating its steady rise in popularity. According to Net Applications, Chrome had 7.5 percent of the browser market in August -- putting it in third place behind Microsoft's Internet Explor  ....

• Linux Distributions Update for Web Flaw (PC World)

  PC World - A number of Linux distributors have issued patches for fixing a widely used program that fetches Web pages, called Wget, so it can not be misused by attackers.  ....

• Firefox Pushes Ahead on Android with Fennec Alpha Browser (PC World)

  PC World - Even as Mozilla's Firefox recently garnered the No. 2 spot in the worldwide Web browser market overall, the software has taken a step closer to staking its claim on the Android platform as well.  ....

• iOS Bigger than Linux and Android Combined [STATS] (Mashable)

  Mashable - According to the latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined.  ....

• A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions (PC World)

  PC World - One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. Ubuntu is the one most people have heard of, but there are hundreds of others as well, each offering some variant on the basic Linux theme.  ....