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RSS bill in newsMicrosoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News In an interview Windows unit business chief Bill Veghte told silicon.com sister site CNET News.com that he wants to see his unit try new things to get the message across. After months of searching for ways to defend its often-maligned Windows... [24 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Among the scientists to put their name to the letter are professor Bill Roscoe, director of Oxford University's computing laboratory, professor Jean Bacon at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory and professor Ian Sommerville, professor... [24 Jul 2008]
MySpace gets on board OpenID
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to... [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Several recent high-profile cases have involved UK customers receiving bills for thousands of pounds after using their handsets to download television shows while on holiday in Europe - often called 'bill shock'. [22 Jul 2008]
Icahn, Yahoo!: Agreement reached
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Yahoo! has reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn, who will join the internet company's board. Icahn, who had proposed his own slate of board members, was calling... [21 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News The launch of a computer system to handle all PAYE tax claims has been suspended because of fears it will not be able to cope. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the PAYE system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the... [21 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments But when service providers latch onto this and let you just add $5 to your $100 monthly cable bill, it's not a noticeable impact. That opens the door to a new market, one that for... [21 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs containing 25 million child benefit records... [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft slams Google-Yahoo! ad deal
News Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford Photos: Bill Gates through the ages In his own words: Bill Gates' best quotes Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments [16 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft Communications Data... [15 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News Reding will also call for greater transparency in data-roaming tariffs to avoid "bill shock". The cost of sending a text message when mobile-phone users are outside their home state in the European Union will drop 70 per cent under new plans, an EU... [15 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News Bill Gates caught on camera Seagate has unveiled 1.5TB desktop and half-terabyte laptop hard drives, claiming industry firsts for both. The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market and the half-a-terabyte jump in capacity from 1TB... [15 Jul 2008]
Gates exit will have little impact
News Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft will have no impact on the company he founded despite him being at the helm for more than 30 years. Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford Photos: Bill Gates through the ages [11 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News He said the draft bill was unnecessary as government could gain access to all the communications data it needed from ISPs under the existing Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The Earl of Erroll, Merlin Hay, has warned against holding... [10 Jul 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News Bill Gates caught on camera The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. During his keynote yesterday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, Ballmer said enterprise users will come... [10 Jul 2008]
