Cloud computing and SaaS provider Zoho has developed a new service that aims to bridge the divide between data stored in the cloud and traditional locally stored applications.

The UK Home Office has admitted that a memory stick with the data concerning every single prisoner in the country, all 84,000 of them, has managed to escape. Of course, this being the UK government, the data was not encrypted...

Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”, designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.

Microsoft is planning on releasing SP2 in 2009, with support to save documents in ODF format as standard, in the name of ‘interoperability’, while adding PDF and XPS save/export compatibility without requiring any add-on software. The EU’s Commission has ‘taken note’ and welcomed the decision, while promising to investigate it further. What does this mean?

In a move that appears to be aimed at making it the heart of the growing world of social networking, MySpace has made it possible for users to share their MySpace public profile data to websites of their choice automatically: initially Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter.