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Article | 12/02/2010 French lawmakers to vote on net filtering next Tuesday

French lawmakers will vote next Tuesday on a proposal to filter Internet traffic. Part of a new security bill, the measure is intended to catch child ...

Article | 29/01/2010 Motorola reports a small Q4 profit, held back by phone sales

Motorola's fourth-quarter sales fell 20 percent year-on-year, but the company still made out a small profit, unhampered by the exceptional charges tha...

Article | 14/01/2010 Microsoft and HP CEOs to announce joint investment

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to invest together to prepare customers for "the next generation of business computing," the companies' CEOs...

Article | 8/01/2010 French government urged to tax online ad revenue

A report commissioned by the French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand urges the introduction of a tax on online advertising such as that carried...

Article | 1/01/2010 South Korea closes flash memory antitrust investigation

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has closed an antitrust investigation of the flash memory industry, concluding that there is no evidence of a pric...

Article | 30/12/2009 Google loses claim to Groovle domain name

Google's complaint that the domain name groovle.com is confusingly similar to its own is without foundation, an ICANN-approved arbitration body has ru...

Article | 25/12/2009 DDoS attack on DNS hits Amazon and others briefly

Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as th...

Article | 17/12/2009 EU accepts Microsoft's commitments to offer browser choice

Microsoft's promise to allow Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its antitrus...

Article | 30/11/2009 SAP Enterprise Support KPI project leader and sponsor resign

SAP's joint project with user groups to demonstrate the value for money of its Enterprise Support program is still on track, the company said Friday, ...

Article | 23/10/2009 No Internet for French pirates after constitutional ruling

France's Constitutional Council has validated the so-called "three strikes" law, clearing the way for an accelerated judicial process that will cut of...

Article | 26/10/2009 Microsoft sales and earnings drop less than expected

Microsoft reported revenue that was down 14 percent year-on-year for its first fiscal quarter, with net income down 17 percent -- but it still beat an...

Article | 16/10/2009 Reduce radio wave exposure, warns French government agency

A French government agency has warned that measures should be taken to reduce everyday exposure to radio signals -- even though, it said, there is no ...

Article | 6/10/2009 World War III could be fought on Internet, says ITU head

Threats of cyberwar and a story of real violence rubbed shoulders at a news conference to mark the opening of the ITU Telecom World exhibition and for...

Article | 30/09/2009 Xerox will buy business process outsourcer ACS for $US6.4B

Xerox has agreed to buy business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for US$6.4 billion, in a move it hopes will allow it to expand ...

Article | 28/09/2009 Xerox will buy business process outsourcer ACS for $US6.4bn

Xerox has agreed to buy business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for US$6.4 billion, in a move it hopes will allow it to expand ...