Beefs 'robot' API The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an extensions gallery for Google Wave, the still-gestating browser-based app that crossbreeds email with IM and document sharing.… Full published article at: Read More »

Elliott wants it all - especially the cash As the week was ending, rumors were swirling that the hedge fund suitor of Novell, Elliott Associates, which last week offered $1bn net of cash to take over the perennially struggling software maker, was going to start selling off its target's assets if it clinches a deal.… Full published article at: Read More »

What happens when you have a problem? Lab You may be playing around with virtualisation on the edges of your IT environment or be well down the road to making it part of the furniture. But what happens when something goes wrong and it’s not immediately obvious what the problem is?… Full published article at: Read More »

Upgrade now, thankyouplease Mozilla has begun shepherding Firefox fans through the browser door marked 3.6, in a move to encourage users to upgrade to the open source outfit's latest surfing tool.… Full published article at: Read More »

Pushes Firefox update Mozilla has released the first Thunderbird 3.1 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux.… Full published article at: Read More »

CPU hog Adobe v HTML5 When Steve Jobs badmouthed Adobe Flash to The Wall Street Journal, he said it was buggy, littered with security holes, and a "CPU hog." It's hard to argue with the first two, but a new study claims the Apple cult leader was wrong about the hog bit.… Full published article at: Read More »

It's not a joke, it's real! Ex-Sun open source veteran Simon Phipps has been elected to the board of directors at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) group.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 11 March 2010 at 15:06:00 Former IT employee tried to sell stolen customer details for more than £2m A former HSBC employee stole client data from the bank affecting up to 24,000 customers in Switzerland, it emerged today. “The theft, which was perpetrated by a former IT employee about three years ago, involves approximately 15,000 existing clients who had accounts with the bank in Switzerland before October 2006,” HSBC said in a statement. However, reports suggest that an additional 9,000 accounts were also affected. Ex-staffer Herve Falciani copied the data onto a...Read More »

Dave Bailey, Computing, Thursday 11 March 2010 at 14:55:00 But the services provider sees marginal drop in revenues for 2009 Infrastructure services provider Computacenter saw its profits before tax increase by 22.4 per cent to £48.4m for the year to 31 December 2009, up from £39.5m last year. Revenues, however, were down by 2.2 per cent to £2.5bn from £2.56bn in 2008. Computacenter chief executive Mike Norris said the increase in the group’s annual service contract base was clear evidence that customers are turning to Computacenter to help them reduce their operating costs. "As...Read More »

Microsoft slips through Web2.0rhea looking glass Microsoft has now slotted MySpace updates into its Outlook application.… Full published article at: Read More »