I look after the news coverage on ZDNet UK, so my interests span the whole of business technology - though I do have a soft spot for Raspberry Pi, open-source hardware and emerging tech.
Karen Friar is news editor for ZDNet in the UK, based in London. She started out in film journalism in San Francisco, before making the switch to tech coverage at ZDNet.com. Next came a move to CNET News.com, where she looked after west coast coverage of business technology, and finally a return to her homeland with ZDNet UK.
EMC has held onto the top spot in the external disk storage market in the face of a surging NetApp, according to first-quarter figures from IDC.Overall, factory sales of external disk storage systems pulled in $5.
Oracle plans to send out fixes on Tuesday for several Java Standard Edition security flaws, including some it rates as 'critical'.The Java SE Critical Patch Update for June will deliver 17 fixes for vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a remote attacker without the need for a username and password, the software maker said in an announcement on Friday.
Microsoft looks set to officially release Office 365, its rebranded set of cloud-based business tools, on June 28.The launch was revealed in a post to Twitter on Friday by Jon Roskill, a vice president in Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group.
Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has indicated that the next version of Windows will arrive in 2012, only to be contradicted by the company's official press corps.At a developer's event in Tokyo on Tuesday, Ballmer spoke about several Microsoft products before finally talking about Windows 7 and the plans for the upcoming update to the OS.
The Finnish Consumer Agency has told iPhone owners in the country that they may be entitled to a refund if they were not warned that cold temperatures could cause problems for the Apple phone.The watchdog has been fielding questions from Finns who have noticed problems with the iPhone's performance in freezing conditions, a spokeswoman from the Finnish Consumer Agency confirmed to ZDNet UK on Friday.
Five more UK towns have been connected to Virgin Media's 100Mbps service, as the ISP continues its 'ultrafast' cable broadband rollout started at the end of last year.On Tuesday, the ISP said that the next-generation broadband service is now on sale in Cheshunt and Hatfield, in Hertfordshire; Southport; Pentwyn near Cardiff; and Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales.
Prosecutors have lost their bid to prevent Julian Assange, editor of Wikileaks, being released on bail while his extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes charges is decided, according to reports.On Thursday, the high court in London upheld a magistrates' court decision to allow Assange to be bailed.
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Swedish authorities have decided to appeal against a judge's decision to grant bail to Wikileaks editor Julian Assange, who faces extradition to Sweden for questioning on sex-crimes charges.The lodging of the appeal came on Tuesday, just hours after the bail decision in City of Westminster Magistrates Court in London.
IBM has set up a cloud-computing facility in the UK to help its business partners worldwide to develop, test and ultimately sell cloud-based services.The Cloud Computing Lab at Hursley IBM Innovation Centre provides access to the technologies needed for enterprises to add the cloud to their portfolio.