A group of mobile-hardware heavyweights have joined forces to help cut the carbon footprint of mobile use

Nasa is using a comet-watching spacecraft to test new interplanetary networking protocols, while the concepts are also being applied to networks closer to home

The search giant's virtual-world project, which launched over the summer, will shut down at the end of the year

Google made Mitchell Baker's Mozilla Foundation $75m through a Firefox search deal, but she doesn't see Chrome as a threat to that revenue

The manufacturer claims its 2.5-inch, quarter-terabyte solid-state drives offer the 'highest overall performance' of any SSDs being used in the PC industry today

Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support

Gordon Brown has spoken publicly for the first time on the future of self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, who is facing extradition to the US on hacking charges

Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks to Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they're doing to grow

The endless to-ing and fro-ing over a potential Microsoft buyout of Yahoo has, I must confess, got me to the stage of sticking my fingers in my ears and humming loudly. The latest news,...

BT has deleted user-forum threads discussing its use of the ad-serving technology that monitors users' browsers habits, as they did not provide 'constructive support'

'Business as usual' appears to be the cautious response from some of the software giant's security competitors

Shares of the company plummeted following comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the software giant is not interested in a Yahoo acquisition

At a shareholders' meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer said he expects headcount growth to be much slower for some time to come

In its 2007 annual report, the Firefox backer has reported a 12 percent increase in revenue, most resulting from a partnership with Google

Microsoft's CEO says it has 'moved on' from the Yahoo bid, but reiterates that his company remains open to a search partnership, though there are no active discussions about it

There are Chinese web browsers, of course: there are about 250 million Internet users in China. But there's a bit more to the Chinese Firefox than simply a browser that can display Chinese...

Gartner says the market for software that creates a master, or single view, of data will grow by almost 25 percent this year

The chief executive on Monday laid out broad policy proposals for Washington that include opening up the government and investing in infrastructure

Identity minister Meg Hillier has said checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on ID cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register

Following termination of its contract with the Transys consortium for the running of the Oyster ticketing scheme, Transport for London has signed a replacement deal with Transys members EDS and Cubic

Yahoo can pick a CEO for a bold new vision or the ability to execute the company's strategy — or something else altogether. So what's the best approach?

IBM has partnered up with a European consortium for a project that aims to "help support active aging and prevent cognitive decline in the elderly population". The HERMES Cognitive Care for...

Ingres 9.2 arrives just as analysts predict a spike in the adoption of open-source databases as a result of the economic crisis

The online TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 is planning to start testing the on-demand media player by the end of the year

Four months after buying Ribbit, BT is opening the software platform up to developers so they can build innovative telephony services and applications

The TouchSmart tx2's 12.1-inch screen can accept touch input from multiple sources at a time, in what HP claims is a first for notebook computing

New storage, cluster systems and software aim to take high-performance computing to smaller organisations, departments and branch offices

The PC maker's revenues hit $33.6bn in what CEO Mark Hurd describes as 'another solid quarter'

Those of you who keep an eye on this blog will have read my thoughts about Apricot's PicoBook Pro netbook - out of the current crop of low-cost subnotebooks, this has to be one of the...

As Microsoft hits the second anniversary of its deal with Novell, the software makers announce they are nearly ready with a beta version of the Linux-based Silverlight player

The company, whose technology allows code to run on a different OS or architecture than originally intended, is best known for powering Apple's Rosetta

Mac-clone maker Psystar's best hope of emerging as a winner in its legal dispute with Apple has been dealt a severe blow by a US federal judge

Trying to be more open and encourage innovation, the company will release source code behind its project to make web browsers more powerful computing foundations

The software giant will discontinue fee-based security and its Windows Live OneCare service in favour of free consumer software focused on protecting PCs against malware

OpenSocial's growth as a development platform for social-networking apps means it has to work out where it stands with rivals and programmers

The space agency plans to use new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyse problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs

Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo may set the stage for another Microsoft offer, shareholders and analysts have said

Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned

According to a listing on Amazon, UK customers will get the opportunity to take part in the OLPC scheme just in time for Christmas

The web company is pushing CloudFront as a high-speed, low-latency alternative to content-delivery-network rivals such as Akamai, while emphasising the service's lack of upfront costs

The unspecified computer virus has resulted in the indefinite shutting down of non-essential IT systems at Barts, the Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital

Repairs to Cern's Large Hadron Collider, which suffered a serious malfunction shortly after being turned on in September, could cost as much as £11m

Plans to roll out next-generation super-fast broadband across the UK won't be affected by the economic situation, despite concern from some shareholders

Questions have been asked in the House of Lords about how effective the database would be in tackling terrorism, and whether it could handle the three billion emails and 57 billion texts sent each year

The business-oriented Asus P565 uses an 800MHz processor, although UK availability for the Windows Mobile 6.1 handset is not yet a certainty

China Mobile will be the first operator worldwide to sell a smartphone with Microsoft's latest mobile browser

Novell has released a new version of GroupWise, its answer to Microsoft's popular Outlook/Exchange collaboration suite

The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year

The Virtual Connect Flex-10 module allows a single network connection to be split into four virtual connections, which HP promises will cut networking-infrastructure costs

In a move likely to be symbolic of future conflict, Microsoft has filed suit to invalidate several patents held by WebXChange, an online services provider. WebXchange has previously sued three...