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Article | 27/04/2011 CenturyLink to buy Savvis for $2.5B

CenturyLink has agreed to buy hosting company Savvis for about US$2.5 billion in cash and shares, the companies announced Wednesday.

Article | 27/04/2011 Nokia hands Symbian OS work and 3,000 employees to Accenture

Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, transferring 3,000 employees to the company in the process, as it moves its focus t...

Article | 22/03/2011 Google fined 100K euros for Street View collection of Wi-Fi data

Google must pay a fine of €100,000 ($US142,000) for the unauthorized collection of information about the location of Wi-Fi hotspots in France by its S...

Article | 7/03/2011 Hackers targeted French gov't computers for G20 secrets

IT staff spent the weekend in a massive clean-up operation to remove traces of a "spectacular" attack on computers at Bercy, the headquarters of the F...

Article | 5/03/2011 Germany identifies a secure way to deal with spam

In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate the...

Article | 3/03/2011 Capgemini Consulting readies 'a new kind of consulting'

Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own strategy for the second time in two years. To cope wi...

Article | 3/03/2011 Security: Never mind the products, educate the users

If they could change one thing to improve IT security, the assembled experts on a panel at Cebit would better educate their users.

Article | 2/03/2011 Buffalo Terastations push limits of Atom platform

Buffalo Technology is bumping up against the limits of Intel's Atom platform with its forthcoming six- and eight-bay Terastation NAS (network attached...

Article | 2/03/2011 Archos launches color e-reader, Android tablet for €129

French media player manufacturer Archos picked Cebit to launch a color e-reader with a 7-inch touch-sensitive screen, and also announced the first tab...

Article | 2/03/2011 Wireless tech saves energy - and makes better mousetrap

Tucked in a dark corner of the Cebit trade show, in Hall 2, lies a mousetrap. Not just any old mousetrap, but a wireless-enabled one.

Article | 2/03/2011 Look, no hands! G.tec uses brain interface to tweet

Austrian company Guger Technologies (g.tec) has developed a brain-computer interface that can be used to "type" short text messages simply by staring ...

Article | 1/03/2011 Cebit kicks off with talk of openness

Open democracy, open borders and open standards were the themes to which speakers returned again and again at the opening ceremony for the Cebit trade...

Article | 25/02/2011 Enterprise trade show welcomes back consumer tech

Not only are consumer IT products finding their way into the enterprise, they're also finding their way back into Cebit, one of the world's biggest pr...

Article | 15/02/2011 ITU wants government help to avoid mobile bottleneck

Whitespace devices, LTE, femtocells, automatic Wi-Fi handover, optimized backhaul networks: wireless operators are already deploying a wide range of t...

Article | 12/02/2011 Nokia's pact with Microsoft puts Symbian developers in play

Developers who had previously built a business around coding apps for Symbian smartphones were put on notice Friday that they should pick another plat...