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ACTA's EU future in doubt after Polish pause

ACTA's EU future in doubt after Polish pause

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has suspended his country's ratification of ACTA, in a move that could make the agreement null and void across the EU Read more

3 February, 2012 17:33 by David Meyer

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German iPhone, iPad sales temporarily banned

Apple was forced to remove several iOS devices from sale on its German online store on Thursday as a result of its patent battles with Motorola. The... Read more

3 February, 2012 21:02 by Ben Woods

Dell climbs stack with new software group

Dell has created a dedicated software group and tapped John Swainson, former head of IT services specialist CA Technologies, to run it. The move,... Read more

3 February, 2012 18:02 by Jack Clark

AMD looks to ARM itself for low-power tablets

The company is opening up its processors to technologies from other chip makers, potentially including low-power specialist ARM, so it can develop products better suited to mobile devices, such as tablets Read more

3 February, 2012 17:20 by Jack Clark

FBI call hacked by suspected Anonymous activists

The FBI has confimed that hackers intercepted a conference call to discuss the Anonymous hacking group with Scotland Yard and other cybercrime officers, after obtaining an email setting up the call Read more

3 February, 2012 17:07 by Tom Espiner

BT accelerates fibre plans as revenues fall

The telecoms provider plans to allow premises to choose whether they want full-speed fibre connections that support downloads up to 300Mbps Read more

3 February, 2012 16:40 by Ben Woods

UK customers to lose out in Microsoft licensing change

Changes to Microsoft's European volume-licensing pricing structure in the summer will see UK customers likely to pay more, according to the software maker Read more

3 February, 2012 15:26 by Tom Espiner 2 comments

Clever on-off switch for graphene. Transistors next?

The Manchester University team that first isolated graphene has discovered a way of introducing a band gap into the material that makes it a much more... Read more

3 February, 2012 13:02 by Lucy Sherriff

HP brings emerging OpenFlow networking to switches

HP has updated the software on 16 of its switches to support OpenFlow, a software-defined networking technology that could improve networking operations and resiliency in enterprise networks Read more

3 February, 2012 13:10 by Jack Clark

Ericsson, Qualcomm demo 4G-to-3G voice handover

The companies have announced a significant step in making all-IP voice calls viable on LTE phones Read more

3 February, 2012 12:17 by David Meyer

NASA video shows dark side of the moon

NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting the moon to map its... Read more

3 February, 2012 12:02 by David Meyer

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It sounds like this is just another variable in the complex equation of Microsoft licensing, which often results in customers overpaying as it is....

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What would be nice would be if Microsoft practiced consistent pricing between the US and Europe.

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