Comment and opinion on the latest IT software, products and industry events

Greenpeace’s campaign unfairly targets Facebook’s very efficient data centre. But, Peter Judge asks, is changing behaviour about fairness?

Google’s new Gmail Priority Inbox feature is ideal for Google Apps users, but is not so well suited to casual consumers, says Clint Boulton

Countries from India to the UAE don’t like secrets, especially when they’re held by their own citizens, but banning BlackBerry is shortsighted and futile, says Wayne Rash

Rich Internet Applications could be the next corporate development frontier, but developers must consider the security implications, says Larry Seltzer

With budgets tightening, IT managers need to identify how different departments use IT resources and how they can be charged accordingly, says Andy Hardy

The PUE efficiency measure is barely three years old but may be obsolete, says Andrew Donoghue - but it’s the best green data centre metric we have for now

The value of mobile voice is falling, says Tom Jowitt, as we all switch to text, email and voice over IP (VoIP) on our phones

As Dell and Hewlett-Packard enter into a billion-dollar bidding war over storage company 3PAR, Chris Preimesberger asks, what took everybody so long?

If Intel wanted anti-virus, it would have licensed McAfee. This deal is about something much bigger, says Wayne Rash

There’s rumours of an iPad-killing Google Chrome tablet this November. Clint Boulton reckons Chrome will hit netbooks first.

Intel is buying software security firm McAfee for $7.9 billion. It’s now time to bake security into the hardware rather than layer it on, says Eric Lundquist

It’s not perpetual motion, but the idea of generating electricity from server heat is a very wasteful way to save energy, says Peter Judge

Over the last 15 years, Microsoft has held onto its browser market share through thick and thin. How much longer can IE’s dominance last, asks Nicholas Kolakowski

In the US, as well as the UAE and India, BlackBerry’s security has come up against government snooping - and the government always wins, says Tom Jowitt