Google has quietly released a beta version of a new voice search system in the US that builds on Google maps to deliver local business information to users by phone.

Leaping across the unstructured/structured data divide, Salesforce.com has announced its new on demand enterprise content management software and claims it will take on EMC’s Documentum.

HP has announced that it will be acquiring Web-based software developer Tabblo, expanding its online printing service capabilities.

Australian DVD disc manufacturer Regency Media has been sued by US based MPEG LA for breach of its MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License.

Microsoft is under fire yet again for its Open XML, with some critics accusing it of trying to fake grassroot support for the format in a bid to speed up ISO certification.

Nexsan Technologies and RELDATA have built on their existing relationship to unite an IP SAN/NAS storage solution inclusive of SAN-level data replication over WANs.

Network Appliance and storage service management provider Onaro have teamed up to foster interoperability between Onaro’s SANscreen storage service management software and NetApp’s Fabric-Attached Storage systems.

Network Appliance has made its debut on the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software 2007.

Water-cooling is gaining in popularity among high-density UK data centres, with those implementing the systems reportedly enjoying significant power savings while satisfying the carbon footprint zeitgeist.

With 70 million blogs and a free run of posted information online - Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales and publisher Tim O’Reilly believe it’s about time we place a code of conduct on online behaviour.