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Article | 2/07/2011 Intel hopes POEM will encourage office staff to save energy

Intel is developing a Windows application, Personal Office Energy Monitor (POEM), that will allow workers to monitor in real time the energy consumed...

Article | 28/06/2011 Google faces claim for €295M damages in French court

A French publishing company has filed suit against Google, alleging anti-competitive practices and claiming €295 million (US$420 million) in damages.

Article | 23/06/2011 SITA partners with Orange to offer worldwide cloud service

Air transport industry IT specialist SITA will partner with network operator Orange Business Services to host cloud applications in six data centers a...

Article | 25/05/2011 Google buys consumer electronics comparison engine Sparkbuy

Google has acquired Sparkbuy, a year-old Seattle startup that developed a comparison shopping service for consumer electronics products.

Article | 17/05/2011 HP reports revenue and profit up in Q2, but lowers forecasts

Hewlett-Packard reported a small year-on-year increase in revenue and profit for the three months ended April 30, but lowered its forecast for its ful...

Article | 10/05/2011 Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5 billion

Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

Article | 3/05/2011 US court approves Google's $900M bid for Nortel patents

Nortel Networks has obtained court approval to accept a US$900 million bid from Google for the entirety of its remaining patent portfolio, it said Mon...

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...