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The Federal Trade Commission revises rules for advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act and for the first time requires bloggers to disclose any material connections they share with the ...
The cloud is here - within limits - said CEO Steve Ballmer, in a London visit to promote Windows 7 and the rest of Microsoft's current catalaogue
Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans to make things simpler
With a 2020 target set for smart meter roll out to UK households and businesses, organisations including the Energy Saving Trust are pushing for minimum standards for the devices
A Microsoft sponsored study says that the IT giant and the companies in its "ecosystem" will generate $535bn (£334bn) in revenues this year
The UK government's CRC carbon trading regulations will create new power-brokers - executives whose job is to co-ordinate corporate energy use
As Cisco looks to extend the reach of its high-definition video conferencing capabilities by buying Tandberg, rival LifeSize Communications is unveiling Passport, a device designed to bring HD video conferencing to small and midsize bu ...
Microsoft's share of the operating system market fell by 0.31 percent in September, according to new data released by statistics firm Net Applications
New free online tools and maps designed for use by data centre and facilities managers in Japan and 33 European countries make it easy to calculate how much free cooling, is available for individual data centres, says The Green Grid
Latest reports say device has more in common with the gee-whiz touch-screens used by Tom Cruise in the 2002 film "Minority Report," and less with the iPhone
Working with millions of NASA satellite measurements, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol find dynamic ice thinning occurring in all latitudes in Greenland and intensifying on key Antarctic coast ...
Users may have to choose which apps to put in the cloud, and some should wait till their industry accepts it, warns cloud provider Savvis
With the Spirit cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad, Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask him whether users are ready to trust the cloud
After years of work, the fast Wi-Fi standard is ratified. What impresses Andrew Garcia is the way the industry has met its promises of compatibility
Digital services must be Europe-wide says commissioner Vivian Reding
European legal committee member Brian Crowley has publicly supported an Irish investment by Intel - which was recently fined €1 million for market abuse
People wanting to start their own "dot-anything" domain, will have to wait for ICANN to rule on potential trademark conflicts
Using BlackBerry devices with RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server can offer benefits from improved productivity to better regulatory compliance
The My Health Info beta service offers tools and widgets with which to organise and monitor health information stored in personal Microsoft HealthVault accounts
Google boosts its Search Options to let users search results by past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news
Two men authorities tied to a phishing scheme pleaded not guilty to charges of identity theft and bank fraud after being extradited to the United States
With its new Lost & Found service, Lenovo is making it easier for anyone who finds a lost laptop to return it to its owner
Broadband Britain may have concentrated too hard on coverage, while quality will have more impact on society, according to a study
But internal tech staff will be kept busy on the roll-out of internal IT private cloud technology for the near future
Simple spreadsheets will not meet the carbon accounting requirements of the UK's CRC regulations, warns analyst firm Verdantix
The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls
Salesforce.com, SAP and several other companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs from the open-source Google Wave platform.
A new permanent agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration declares ICANN is independent and not controlled by any one entity.
Research In Motion will shortly release a version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager that allows sync between BlackBerry devices and Apple computers.
Database giant Oracle is fined $10,000 and directed to take corrective action after running an ad in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist