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Aviva refines online customer experience with Coverity

Sophie Curtis — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Insurance provider Aviva is using development testing software from Coverity to improve the quality of its online services and enhance customer experience.

GameReplays invites white-hat hackers to probe site after data breach

Lucian Constantin — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:55:00 GMT

The owner of GameReplays.org has invited ethical hackers to probe the website for vulnerabilities after a recent compromise that resulted in 10,000 member accounts being exposed.

LibreOffice 3.5 given speed boost in latest version

Katherine Noyes — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:48:00 GMT

LibreOffice has been nothing if not an active and vibrant project since it was forked from OpenOffice.org back in 2010; and it was just a few months ago that we saw the debut of LibreOffice 3.5, the software's third major release.

JavaScript founder dismisses Google Native Client, pushes ECMAScript 6

Paul Krill — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:25:00 GMT

Brendan Eich says forthcoming ECMAScript 6 is sufficient and Native Client lacks necessary vendor support

Cisco server shipments jump 70% i Q1 as industry slows

Agam Shah — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:55:00 GMT

Worldwide server shipments grew at a slower-than-expected clip during the first quarter of 2012, but Cisco, which has a small market share, beat market trends as top server makers struggled with slow demand and weak economic conditions, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday.

Orange San Diego will be UK's first Intel smartphone

Mikael Ricknäs — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:03:00 GMT

Orange will be the first British operator to sell an Intel smartphone when the San Diego goes on sale on June 6.

Asus Transformer Infinity Pad tablet with Android 4.0 to ship this month

Agam Shah — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:45:00 GMT

Asus will make their eagerly awaited Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T tablet, considered a challenger to Apple's new iPad, available in late June or early July.

IPCom has failed to stop sales of Nokia's phones in the UK

Mikael Ricknäs — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:12:00 GMT

The UK High Court has dismissed IPCom's attempts to obtain an injunction against the sales of Nokia's 3G phones.

New open-source CRM app called 'Zurmo' uses gamification

Chris Kanaracus — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:55:00 GMT

The backers of a new open-source CRM (customer relationship management) application called Zurmo are hoping to stand out in a crowded field via the use of gamification, the notion of applying game-like design principles in an effort to make users engage more closely with a product.

Megaupload cites jurisdiction law, asks US court to dismiss indictment

John Ribeiro — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:37:00 GMT

Megaupload cannot be brought within the jurisdiction of a federal court in Virginia for criminal proceedings without its consent, as federal rules do not contemplate service of a criminal summons on a wholly foreign corporation without an agent or offices in the US, its lawyers said in a filing on Wednesday.

Law to lower mobile roaming charges the fastest approved in EU

Jennifer Baker — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:53:00 GMT

A new law to lower the price of mobile phone roaming was approved yesterday, making it the fastest piece of legislation to be passed by European Union institutions.

VMware vSphere 5.0 has been certified by Common Criteria

Ellen Messmer — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:45:00 GMT

VMware today said its virtual-machine infrastructure software, vSphere 5.0, has achieved certification under what's known as the Common Criteria program, a US-supported international effort to test software in labs for security and general soundness in technical features.

Cisco to announce software defined-networking products in June

Jim Duffy — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:30:00 GMT

Cisco will make software defined-networking (SDN) product announcements at its CiscoLive conference in June that will show initial steps in how it plans to roll out the fledgling technology.

Solar power HP data centre technology goes easy on the grid

Jon Gold — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:59:00 GMT

A combination of solar power and carefully automated management should let data centres have a net grid impact of zero, HP said yesterday when announcing its new data centre infrastructure.

Intel set to launch 30 touchscreen ultrabooks at Computex

Agam Shah — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:40:00 GMT

A new breed of ultrabooks sporting Intel's latest 'Ivy Bridge' Core processors will start to go on sale next month, including 30 models with touchscreens, Intel said this morning.

Analysts: Apple will buy 'swipe to unlock' patent firm

David Price — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:33:00 GMT

A financial analyst has predicted that Apple will buy the small Swedish mobile manufacturer which claims to hold a prior patent on the 'swipe to unlock' technology used in the iPhone.

RIM hires bankers as losses mount

Stephen Lawson — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:18:00 GMT

Research In Motion has warned that it expects an operating loss for the current quarter and has hired two investment banks to help it study alternative company strategies that might include licensing its OS.

RIM hires bankersas losses mount

Stephen Lawson — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:18:00 GMT

Sky Broadband blocks access to The Pirate Bay

Sophie Curtis — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:53:00 GMT

Internet service provider Sky has blocked access to The Pirate Bay, following similar moves by Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere.

17% o PCs have no antivirus protection, worldwide McAfee study finds

Cameron Scott — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:37:00 GMT

A McAfee study of PCs around the world found that 17% hd no antivirus protection, and the US outpaced the average with 19% o PCs unprotected.

Moonlight fades out as Microsoft's Silverlight wanes

Paul Krill — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Developers abandon alternative version of Microsoft's Silverlight technology for non-Windows systems

Juniper packs 30 new features in Mykonos Web Security software

Jim Duffy — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:33:00 GMT

Juniper Networks has unveiled enhancements to the web security software it obtained through the acquisition of Mykonos Software in February.

Twin-dock prototype first-gen iPad sells for $10,000 on eBay

David Price — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:30:00 GMT

A prototype testing model of the first-gen iPad has sold on eBay for a staggering $10,200.

Fedora 17 takes to the cloud in new Linux distribution

Joab Jackson — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:40:00 GMT

The newest release of the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux distribution includes a number of technologies that haven't made their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) yet, including a new version of the OpenStack cloud platform, code-named Essex, that the company plans to adopt in future editions of its flagship distribution.

Post Office plans NFC contactless payments rollout

Derek du Preez — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:32:00 GMT

The Post Office has revealed plans to roll-out contactless payments technology across its entire network, which will allow Mastercard and Visa customers to make payments of up to £20 using near field communication (NFC) equipped mobile phones across 30,000 counter positions in 11,5000 branches.