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Intuit shuts Quicken Online, turns focus to Mint.com
Friday November 6, 2009 5:28 pm GMT
The maker of Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax will shut down its free Quicken Online personal finance site in six to nine months and concentrate on newly bought Mint.com
Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption
Friday November 6, 2009 5:22 pm GMT
The Large Hadron Collider was hit by crouton torpedo when a rogue piece of bread caused an electrical system failure
Fujitsu IT staff to hold three-day strike
Friday November 6, 2009 4:03 pm GMT
Unite members at the IT services company plan to strike next week over proposed cuts to jobs and pensions
Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
Friday November 6, 2009 3:49 pm GMT
The VoIP company's founders will regain some control over the firm and eBay will be able to sell off a majority stake in Skype, after settling an intellectual property dispute
Google delivers search tool for online stores
Friday November 6, 2009 3:48 pm GMT
Commerce Search, hosted in Google's cloud, is designed for online retail sites and provides features such as customisable results and display
Mobile industry decides on LTE voice standard
Friday November 6, 2009 3:47 pm GMT
LTE, the successor to 3G, will use a technology based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework to carry voice and text messages
'Gordon' supercomputer uses flash to go faster
Friday November 6, 2009 3:24 pm GMT
The system, which will use flash memory, will model climate simulations and the effects of earthquakes
More Virgin trains get on-board Wi-Fi
Friday November 6, 2009 12:05 pm GMT
Virgin Trains launches of Wi-Fi broadband services on its fleet of 21 Super Voyager Trains travelling from Euston to North Wales and Chester
Thunderbird 3: Near-final version due next week
Friday November 6, 2009 9:50 am GMT
Mozilla Messaging plans to issue release candidate 1 of Thunderbird 3 as soon as Monday, with the final version expected later in November
Google releasing JavaScript programming tools
Friday November 6, 2009 9:32 am GMT
In a step to make the web a more powerful foundation for programs, Google is releasing Closure Tools that it says produce faster, better code
HP 'sensing technology' to connect objects, people
Friday November 6, 2009 9:16 am GMT
The company has announced a new Mems accelerometer that is 1,000 times more sensitive than existing products on the market
One promise needed for internet freedom
Thursday November 5, 2009 4:46 pm GMT
Europe has given us the tools to prevent three strikes. It's the perfect time to finish the job
Parallels supports Windows 7, Snow Leopard
Thursday November 5, 2009 4:20 pm GMT
Parallels Desktop Mac virtualisation software is faster than the previous version and gives users more customisation flexibility when working with Windows
'Polished' Moblin adds 3G support, plug-ins
Thursday November 5, 2009 4:06 pm GMT
The latest version of Moblin, the Intel-sponsored Linux distribution for Atom-based netbooks and nettops, includes a new web browser and allows Bluetooth pairing
Zero-day flaw found in web encryption
Thursday November 5, 2009 3:54 pm GMT
A security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers
Novell previews Pulse collaboration platform
Thursday November 5, 2009 3:48 pm GMT
Pulse, which will be interoperable with Google Wave, will combine email, document authoring and social-messaging tools with enterprise-oriented security and management
Microsoft commits another £60K to Apache
Thursday November 5, 2009 2:56 pm GMT
The software giant will renew its sponsorship of the Apache Software Foundation as it increases its involvement with open-source Apache projects
Inside Microsoft's biggest datacentre
Thursday November 5, 2009 2:40 pm GMT
Take a look around Microsoft's 700,000 sq ft Chicago facility a datacentre the company says just might be the biggest on the planet
European 'internet freedom' law agreed
Thursday November 5, 2009 1:11 pm GMT
Lawmakers agree to protect internet users from disconnection without due process, a move that means a raft of EU telecoms reforms can pass into law
Red Hat CEO: Open source needs champions
Thursday November 5, 2009 10:50 am GMT
Jim Whitehurst has hailed Google and Red Hat revenue models as bringing success to the open-source community
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