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

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
Many of the cyberthreats your business faces are invisible. Learn how to shine a light on these threats and discover how to take action to protect your business
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
Security researchers at Finjan track a cyber-gang that pilfered German bank accounts in summer 2009.
A US bank has had a Gmail user's account closed down, simply because the bank accidentally sent private data to it. Cloud services expose us to the consequences of others' stupidity, says Jim Rapoza
Defence sites across the UK will be fitted with energy efficiency monitoring technology despite security concerns raised by experts about the technology
Environmental laws will replace cost cutting as the main motivation for developing energy efficient data centres, says analyst Gartner
Not only does it virtualise Windows, and move all your software and files with the bundled cable and migration tools included, it teaches you Mac too
CEO Steve Ballmer uses the pulpit of a Microsoft event in San Francisco to discuss a so-called new efficiency that IT administrators must embrace in a difficult economy, and touted the cost-saving aspects of new Microsoft products
Apple has rehired Michael Tchao, formerly a developer of the Newton personal digital assistant in the 1990s.
Research from Damballa shows the biggest botnets are not always the most threatening when it comes to swiping corporate data
Can news organisations which have traditionally provided their mobile news for free make a viable business out of charging for applications
Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 as greener than Vista or XP, designed with a variety of energy-saving options for both IT administrators and end users.
While Broadband Britain is concentrating on penetration, a study shows that quality may be just as important
Is it reasonable to ask IT companies to compare their carbon emissions against a 1990 baseline? Green campaigners want to see it, but Peter Judge is not so sure
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard says its environmental practices date back 50 years although it only began measuring carbon emissions in 2005