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PlayReady is all part of Microsoft’s mobile strategy - but it’s aimed at those who want entertainment on their phones, not spreadsheets. The corporation has gained some support from [...]

Microsoft will release a set of best practices for administrators running data centers, focusing on energy-saving strategies the company is implementing in its own operations, CEO Steve Ballmer said. Those tips will covers issues such as how to pick a good site for a data center, how to deal with heat and [...]

A tool that allows people to sync their files across multiple computers by merely dragging and dropping files on the desktop has arrived in beta - and there is already talk that [...]

The BBC has released a ‘fix’ for the [...]

AOL has acquired Bebo, the world’s third-favourite social networking website (with 40 million members), for $850 million, following [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, watch your back. Sergey and Larry? Consider early retirement.
The next generation is coming up fast, and they aren’t waiting for you Web 2.0 geezers to step aside. Here are 10 serious overachievers–20 years old or younger–with more ambition, energy, tech smarts, and business savvy than you’ll find in most entire high-tech companies, let [...]

EBay is trying to help chief information security officers (CISOs) build a common front in the war against cybercrime The company played host to chief security officers and a handful of technology vendors this week, holding its annual Red Team security conference at the company’s San Jose campus, billing it as a [...]

Google has complied with a request from the Pentagon to remove some images from its Street Level service on Google Maps on the grounds that they could pose a [...]

Palm Inc has unveiled its new youth-orientated smartphone, the Palm Centro.
Nicely styled and available in a rather fetching ‘iPalm’ white, the Centro is an unashamed attempt by Palm to [...]

Shy students are being given the chance to send answers to questions via Bluetooth from their PDAs, as the classroom embraces the latest technologies.
The times of students hiding behind textbooks and offering silent prayers that they wouldn’t be picked to answer the question could be at an end, with [...]