Facebook eyes mobile domination

Facebook has set out a strategy to make it as dominant a force in the world of mobile as it is in social networking, reveals the BBC.

At the heart of its plans is making the mobile phone a more social experience and offering shopping discounts.

The company revealed the opportunity for businesses to offer deals to users via their phone. Facebook also has plans for a single sign-on that lets users log in to applications once with their Facebook name and password.

Google has 'open-sourced' an Apache server module designed to speed Web site performance, according to The Register.

Presumably, the module is based on the mystery Google Web Server the company uses to serve its own pages.

Known as “mod_pagespeed”, the Apache module speeds performance “on the fly” in 15 separate ways, which include optimising page caching, minimising client-server round trips, and reducing payload size. “Mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module that automatically optimises Web pages and resources on them," Google says.

UK prime minister David Cameron will today reveal plans to create a new technology city in London's East End and to review intellectual property laws in a bid to encourage US-style innovation.

In a speech to hi-tech businesses and entrepreneurs, Cameron is expected to name technology heavyweights like Google, Intel and Facebook as long-term investors in an area that runs from the Olympic Park being developed for the 2012 games, to the Shoreditch area of east London where there are already a number of start-up companies.

"Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park, to help make East London one of the world's great technology centres," Cameron is expected to say.

Microsoft's Windows 7 has received a lukewarm response from enterprises, according to a new report from Forrester Research, reports V3.

The analyst firm said the operating system is currently on only 10% of enterprise PCs, compared to 75% for Windows XP.

The fact that Windows 7 is relatively new is not a factor in the low numbers, according to Forrester, as the 10% figure represents growth of only 1% against last year.