This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! and other organisations to work on projects to help with disaster relief.See more photos from

Server virtualisation is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the corporate IT infrastructure - and now industry experts are predicting that it won't be long until corporate desktops follow suit.Desktop virtualisation refers to the running of a PC's operating system

Shared services delivered through the cloud will help the public sector shave billions from its annual IT spend, according to a leaked Whitehall report.

Metaform Systems announced general availability for Fabric3 1.3. Fabric3 is a platform for developing, assembling, and managing distributed applications based on Service Component Architecture (SCA).