Mikael Ricknäs - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 28/04/2010 Red Hat support subscription to cover Amazon's cloud

Red Hat Cloud Access will let enterprises use their subscriptions to support either traditional on-premise servers or servers hosted on Amazon's Elast...

Article | 27/04/2010 Twitter acquires SMS specialist

Twitter has acquired Cloudhopper, a provider of mobile phone text messaging infrastructure. Twitter hopes to use the company's expertise to improve th...

Article | 23/04/2010 Nokia profit and sales grow, but Q1 still disappoints

Nokia reported improved profits and revenue for the first quarter, but both numbers were below analysts' expectations. The company also lowered its op...

Article | 22/04/2010 Alcatel-Lucent boosts broadband over copper to 300Mbps

Alcatel-Lucent has found a way to move data at 300M bps (bits per second) over two copper lines, the company said on Wednesday. However, so far it is ...

Article | 20/04/2010 Server virtualization bounces back in Europe, says IDC

Sales of server hardware and software for virtualization in the fourth quarter of 2009 increased for the first time in a year in Europe, the Middle Ea...

Article | 10/04/2010 Nokia acquires location services vendor MetaCarta

Nokia on Friday said it will acquire MetaCarta, a privately-held company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that specializes in finding content for location...

Article | 8/04/2010 Nokia brings music download service to China, without DRM

Nokia has launched a version of its Comes With Music download service without digital rights management (DRM) for the Chinese market, the phone manufa...

Article | 1/04/2010 Companies create alliance to push open source clouds

IELO, Mandriva, and Nexedi this week joined forces and formed the Free Cloud Alliance, which will work to push open source products for cloud computin...

Article | 31/03/2010 Femtocell prices have dropped below $100, says vendor

The wholesale cost of a femtocell has dropped below US$100 and that will help give the sector a boost, femtocell vendor Ubiquisys said on Tuesday.

Article | 30/03/2010 Amazon adds private streaming to CloudFront

Amazon Web Services has added the ability for customers of CloudFront to choose who gets to receive content streamed using the service, the company sa...

Article | 27/03/2010 Nokia acquires mobile browsing company

Nokia on Friday said it will acquire Novarra, a privately-held company based in Chicago that specializes in mobile browsing.

Article | 26/03/2010 VMware, Citrix struggle with "bare-metal" desktops

Leading virtualization software vendors Citrix Systems and VMware are both running behind in plans to ship so-called bare-metal hypervisors for deskto...

Article | 24/03/2010 Nuance debuts continuous text input technology

Nuance Communications has announced T9 Trace software that lets users input text on a touchscreen phone by gliding their finger from one letter to ano...

Article | 23/03/2010 Mozilla stops development of Firefox for Windows Mobile

Mozilla has decided to stop development of a version of its Firefox mobile Web browser for phones running Windows Mobile.

Article | 23/03/2010 Myriad tool converts Java apps for Android phones

Mobile software company Myriad Group announced J2Android, which will make it possible for Java-based mobile applications to run on Android-based phone...