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  • First Android phone: the details

    US carrier T-Mobile and Google overnight detailed the the first-ever mobile handset handset running Google's new Android operating system.

  • Ubuntu cuddles Zimbra

    Zimbra, the open source email software that Yahoo acquired for US$350m last year, is officially coming to Ubuntu Linux.

  • Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud

    Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised?

  • Amazon's S3 faces outage

    Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service - a major component of its online computing services - was experiencing problems Sunday in the US.

  • Yahoo executive exodus causes reshuffle

    Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management on Thursday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology, and operational execution, the company said.

  • Australian finds vulnerability in his coffee maker

    An Australian man has discovered security holes in his internet-connected coffee maker that could allow a remote attacker to not only take over his Windows XP-based PC but also make his coffee too weak.

  • Google's enterprise vision is in the cloud

    Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action.

  • Google modernises Web software tool

    Google plans to release later this week a near-final version of the Google Web Toolkit 1.5, software designed to ease the onerous parts of writing sophisticated Web-based software.

  • Web banking: It's time to write down your password

    Banks should stop forcing customers to create long, alphanumeric passwords because they can't protect against today's threats, according to AT&T computing researcher William Cheswick

  • Cloudbusting: Can you fight Google's million servers?

    While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner analyst has warned.

  • Sun launches OpenSolaris, inks deal with Amazon

    Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has released OpenSolaris, an open source version of its Solaris operating system, and announced a deal with Amazon.com.

  • Microsoft: Try Vista, it's not as bad you think

    Microsoft still faces an uphill battle to win over consumers, despite the progress it cites on Vista's performance and compatibility.

  • Sun to launch first MySQL update

    The next version of MySQL won't contain bugs of the past, according to Sun execs who have promised not to change the culture of the open-source database organisation that was acquired by Sun for US$1bn in January.

  • Is Google's App Engine a lock-in honeypot?

    Some developers fear that Google is aiming to lock them into to the App Engine platform Google's application hosting service but Google refutes any claim it has evil intentions.

  • Google sets Bigtable for free life in the cloud

    Web developers will soon be able to host their applications on Google's infrastructure for free up to a point.

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