Gmail users around the world suffered through a two and a half hour outage yesterday, highlighting one of the potential downsides to cloud-based email systems.

While many parts of the information and communications technology sector are being stung by the economic crisis, IDC claims that the mobile telecommunications industry is well-placed to weather the storm.

Spyrus has unveiled its latest line of secure USB storage devices: the encrypted Hydra PC Virus Protected (ViP) drives which incorporate antivirus protection from McAfee Scan Engine technology.

Adobe has warned that a critical flaw has been discovered in its Acrobat reader, and has recommended users disable javascript until the bug has been fixed.

Analyst firm Research and Markets has announced a new piece of research on the small to medium enterprise storage market, saying that SMEs are currently considered the sweet spot for storage sales by vendors.

Australian broadcast production company Red Bee Media is buzzing about VMware View 3, VMware’s next generation virtual desktop solution.

BP Logix, a provider of web-based business process automation and reporting solutions, has launched BP Logix Workflow Director.

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, the National Library of the Netherlands, has decided to digitise 8 million pages of historical newspapers, giving library users digital access to 400 years of history.

The NSW Fire Brigades (NSWFB) is trialling a sophisticated mapping and geographic analysis system from iintegrate Systems, a subsidiary of NGIS Australia (www.ngis.com.au), to support the organisation’s spatial capability.

According to a new study form Dublin’s Digital Reality Trust an increasing number of European countries are planning data centre expansions despite the economic downturn.