Mozilla pegs worldwide Firefox share at 30%
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Antarctica’s browser of choice
Mozilla estimates that Firefox now handles almost 30 per cent of worldwide web access.…
Greenpeace fears clouds will turn earth brown
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‘I am iPad, destroyer of worlds’
Greenpeace is piggybacking on the media frenzy around the release of Apple’s “magical and revolutionary” iPad to drum up PR for its attempt to cajole the information and communications technology (ICT) sector into going green. Or, at minimum, greener.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Booby-trapping PDF files: a new how-to
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Built-in insecurity
A security researcher has demonstrated a mechanism that exploits PDF files without taking advantage of any particular vulnerabilities.…
Cloudkick descends from sky to earthbound iron
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Server manager spans heaven and data center
Cloudkick has descended from the heavens, bringing its sky-high virtual server manager to real iron down here on earth. With its “Hybrid Cloudkick,” you can monitor and manage your physical servers alongside instances floating in the so-called cloud.…
Cost cutting - from desktop to toilet
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What is this word you call ‘refresh’?
Recently, we shared some preliminary results from our annual x86 enterprise user survey. The topic of that article was the economy, and what it’s done to our survey respondents’ 2010 IT budgets. You can see that article here and take the survey yourself here.…
Red Hat injects RHEL with new iron love
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Yesterday’s kernel, today’s chips
Red Hat has pushed out another rev of its Linux variant. With Enterprise Linux 5.5, support for the latest processors from Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, and IBM has been back-ported to the Linux 2.6.18 at the heart of the RHEL 5 stack.…
Ad broker throws Flash a Jobsian lifeline
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iPad gets iFlash
Apple’s iPad, set for US release this Saturday, may not support Adobe Flash, but that hasn’t stopped one mobile ad firm from ensuring that its customers’ Flash-based content will play on Cupertino’s “magical and revolutionary” device.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
Mozilla spits out last version of Firefox 3.0
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RIP, download king
Mozilla has released the last update to Firefox 3.0.…
Millions wasted on IT: PAC chair parting shot
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And the rest you just squandered
The outgoing chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has criticised government IT spending in an open letter to his successor.…
Grundig pushes BBC iPlayer to Freesat boxes
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Doesn’t work? We’ll give you a new box for 15 quid, says firm
Bush, Grundig and Goodmans Freesat set-top boxes and DVRs will today gain access to BBC iPlayer, courtesy of an over-the-air update the combo is now pushing out.…