'House 17' and the secret algorithm

A federal grand jury has indicted two computer programmers on fraud and conspiracy charges for developing programs used by Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his billion-dollar ponzi scheme.?

Databases and the agony of choice

OSBC Red Hat will help others build clouds, but is unlikely to following operating-system rival Microsoft by becoming a cloud service provider itself.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

A warm handoff

In January, Novell released its SUSE Appliance Toolkit after nearly a year of alpha and beta testing. Now begins the difficult task of getting systems, middleware, and database software makers to rejigger their code and make it available through the online tool so companies can spin up and spit out software appliances.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Will it SMIL? Yesnomaybe

?HTML5 will enable a new class of applications,? says Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's Internet Explorer general manager, speaking to the press at the company's Mix10 conference in Las Vegas.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Redmondian open source library love abounds

Microsoft has put more of its considerable weight behind the open-source JQuery Javascript library, vowing to provide additional code contribution, testing resources, and integration with new versions of its own development tools.?

It's all about number 2.0 now

Mozilla has dropped support for version 1.0 of its four-year-old internet app suite, SeaMonkey.?

VirnetX wins infringement case against Redmond

Microsoft has been ordered by a US federal jury in Texas to pay nearly $106m to VirnetX Holding Corporation for infringing two internet communication patents.?

The cost of GPUness

Updated Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 9 will not support Windows XP.?

And how to avoid them

Lab While the broader question of what?s going to prevent server virtualisation going mainstream might be interesting, it's far more pertinent to find out what?s going to prevent virtualisation working in your own organisation.?

How should it change your approach

On Demand If virtualisation is creeping across your organisation then you should tune in to this, the latest webcast in our virtualisation series: Virtualisation and Security: Practical Matters.?

Browser preview powers web standards with GPU

Microsoft is focusing on performance and HTML 5 standards support in Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its web browser.?

After it's installed on your PC

Google is changing the way it handles the unique identifier that accompanies each installation of its Chrome browser.?

Web2.0rhea 'anywhere'

Twitter has unveiled a new set of tools for embedding its Web2.0rhea service in third-party websites.?

MS says everything's in. Just not in this release

Mix10 "In this release, our focus is on phones purchased by consumers," said Microsoft?s Charlie Kindel, describing the Windows Phone 7 developer platform to attendees at the Mix conference in Las Vegas on Monday.?

Yes, Jesus Phone Mini still in limbo

Opera has released final versions of its Opera Mini 5 browser for Java-based phones and BlackBerries and its Opera Mobile 10 browser for Symbian S60-based devices and Windows Mobile phones.?