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EU scales back telecom regulator plan

The European Commission Friday scaled back its ambitions to create a U.S. Federal Communications Commission-style regulator for the European Union, after lawmakers opposed the...

Energy Star for servers coming in February, EPA says

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the third draft of its Energy Star specification for servers and expects the final spec to be...

Report: Microsoft takes aim at Verizon Wireless search

Microsoft is making a pitch to be the default search provider on Verizon Wireless mobile phones, in an effort to steal the business from...

P@SHA ICT Award Winner: Student Category – Zubair Shafiq

M. Zubair Shafiq, Research Engineer from NUST, won the P@SHA Student Category!

Nortel could slash workforce by 10% on Monday

Nortel is expected to announce significant job cuts when it reports third quarter results on Monday. That would be on top of the 2,100...

New credit cards show their smarts

Today’s smaller, slimmer mobile phones look like credit cards — and in a curious twist, future credit cards could look like mobile phones, with...

Gore sees transformative power of Web in politics

Barack Obama had a lot going for him already in this year’s election, but his creative use of the Internet played a huge role...

Uganda to create IT agency to oversee infrastructure

The Uganda government will expand if the creation of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is approved. According to the draft IT policy...

MS touts Windows 7 integration with Windows Server

Microsoft next week will distribute a pre-beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 to a select group of testers and highlight the software’s virtualization capabilities,...

Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace talk platforms

As Web application platforms rise in importance and popularity, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook executives shared tips for keeping developers happy, disagreed on philosophical...

Thousands hit in broad Web hack

Hackers have launched a massive Web hacking campaign, putting malicious links on as many as 10,000 servers, security vendor Kaspersky Lab warned Friday.

Gateway unit acquisition still haunting MPC

The acquisition of Gateway’s professional services unit in 2007 has come back to bite computer assembler MPC, which filed for bankruptcy Friday.

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