Ballmer Admits Windows Licensing “Gotchas”

Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans…

16 years ago

Consumers Demand Minimum Smart Meter Standards

With a 2020 target set for smart meter roll out to UK households and businesses, organisations including the Energy Saving…

16 years ago

IT Industry Will Contribute 5.8m Jobs To Help Recovery

A Microsoft sponsored study says that the IT giant and the companies in its "ecosystem" will generate $535bn (£334bn) in…

16 years ago

Carbon Rules Will Create “Energy Tsars” Says Analyst

The UK government's CRC carbon trading regulations will create new power-brokers - executives whose job is to co-ordinate corporate energy…

16 years ago

HD Video Conferencing Services Launched

As Cisco looks to extend the reach of its high-definition video conferencing capabilities by buying Tandberg, rival LifeSize Communications is…

16 years ago

Apple Snow Leopard Gains While Windows Declines

Microsoft's share of the operating system market fell by 0.31 percent in September, according to new data released by statistics…

16 years ago

Green Grid Offers Free Cooling Tools

New free online tools and maps designed for use by data centre and facilities managers in Japan and 33 European…

16 years ago

“Minority Reports” Of Apple Tablet Persist

Latest reports say device has more in common with the gee-whiz touch-screens used by Tom Cruise in the 2002 film…

16 years ago

UK Scientists Use Nasa Data To Investigate Global Warming

Working with millions of NASA satellite measurements, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol find dynamic…

16 years ago

Compliance May Hinder Cloud Early Adopters, Warns Provider

Users may have to choose which apps to put in the cloud, and some should wait till their industry accepts…

16 years ago

Savvis Says Spirit Will Convince Cloud Skeptics

With the Spirit  cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad,  Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask…

16 years ago

802.11n Fast Wi-Fi Keeps Compatibility Promise

After years of work, the fast Wi-Fi standard is ratified. What impresses Andrew Garcia is the way the industry has…

16 years ago

EC Wants e-Commerce To Flow Like “Oil In Broadband Pipelines”

Digital services must be Europe-wide says commissioner Vivian Reding

16 years ago

MEP Continues To Support Intel Amid EC Anti-Trust Case

European legal committee member Brian Crowley has publicly supported an Irish investment by Intel - which was recently fined €1…

16 years ago

ICANN Community Awaits New gTLD Rules

People wanting to start their own "dot-anything" domain, will have to wait for ICANN to rule on potential trademark conflicts

16 years ago

BlackBerrys Pay Back Costs Many Times Over

Using BlackBerry devices with RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server can offer benefits from improved productivity to better regulatory compliance

16 years ago

Microsoft Launches Online Health Data Tools

The My Health Info beta service offers tools and widgets with which to organise and monitor health information stored in…

16 years ago

Google Beefs Up Search In Response To Bing

Google boosts its Search Options to let users search results by past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer…

16 years ago

Romanian Phishers Extradited To US

Two men authorities tied to a phishing scheme pleaded not guilty to charges of identity theft and bank fraud after…

16 years ago

Lenovo Launches Lost And Found Laptop Service

With its new Lost & Found service, Lenovo is making it easier for anyone who finds a lost laptop to…

16 years ago

British Broadband Needs To Address Quality

Broadband Britain may have concentrated too hard on coverage, while quality will have more impact on society, according to a…

16 years ago

Gartner: Cloud Computing Will Replace IT Departments

But internal tech staff will be kept busy on the roll-out of internal IT private cloud technology for the near…

16 years ago

Firms At Risk From Excel-Based Carbon Management

Simple spreadsheets will not meet the carbon accounting requirements of the UK's CRC regulations, warns analyst firm Verdantix

16 years ago

Cisco To Acquire Video Conference Specialist Tandberg

The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls

16 years ago

Google Wave Store Could Host SAP, Salesforce Apps

Salesforce.com, SAP and several other companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs from the…

16 years ago

US Loosens Hold On ICANN

A new permanent agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration…

16 years ago

BlackBerry App Released For Mac

Research In Motion will shortly release a version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager that allows sync between BlackBerry devices and Apple…

16 years ago

Oracle Fined for Ad Claims

Database giant Oracle is fined $10,000 and directed to take corrective action after running an ad in The Wall Street…

16 years ago

Banking Trojan Exposed By Researchers

Security researchers at Finjan track a cyber-gang that pilfered German bank accounts in summer 2009.

16 years ago

Cloud Scare: Bank Closes “Innocent” Gmail User Down

A US bank has had a Gmail user's account closed down, simply because the bank accidentally sent private data to…

16 years ago