Michael Gove, one of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party, has called for a UK equivalent of the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to be set up as part of a broader...
Documents published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveal that a bidding war between Microsoft and Salesforce pushed up the price that Microsoft had to pay by $5bn, or 22 per cent. ...
IBM's SoftLayer cloud division is now offering certified images of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux server platform, providing customers with access to optimised images for running on SoftLayer's bare metal and...
The United Nations voted on Friday to extend human rights to the internet, despite frantic last-minute lobbying by diplomats representing Russia and China. The vote theoretically extends human rights...
Google kept itself busy over the past seven days by completing the installation of a 60Tbps undersea cable, revealing the official name of Android N, and introducing a new way to teach coding. The company...
Microsoft has released tools that allow users of the Azure cloud platform to migrate resources currently managed using legacy APIs to the newer Azure Resource Manager service, without incurring any downtime....
CityFibre and Gigaclear have partnered to plough ahead with the delivery of fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) broadband connections in rural areas. The companies said that working together will enable "hundreds...
Much of the news in the world of Microsoft this week has centred on the continuing build-up to the forthcoming next major update of Windows 10, known as the Anniversary Update. Microsoft finally disclosed...
New laws governing electronic signatures come into force across the European Union today. The Electronic Identification and Signature (eIDAS) Regulation is intended to standardise the way e-signatures...
Linux specialist Suse has released a public beta of Suse Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2, an upcoming update for the platform that adds support in areas such as software-defined networking (SDN) and...