The Olympics media centre looks set to become a datacentre after the Games, with technology company iCITY one of two remaining bidders for the legacy of the site. The company's bid would turn the building into a cloud computing centre and ...
Tags: Olympics, media centre, datacentre
The EU is to tell Google to change the way it gathers information on users to reduce the risk of infringing on their privacy. After a nine-month investigation into Google's business model, which depends on advertisements tailored to users ...
Tags: EU, Google, Privacy Policy, users information
The European Commission (EC) has announced funding for IT research totaling almost €1.5bn. The cash is part of a larger €8.1bn pot the EC plans to invest in various research projects proposed by businesses and organisations ...
Tags: European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme, European Union
The U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union should embrace free and open broadband markets and allow individual countries to reform their telecommunications regulations instead of attempting to centrally regulate the industry, the ...
Tags: U.N., ITU, telecommunications regulations, U.S.delegation
Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
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Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote to Europe's top antitrust authorities with proposals aimed at avoiding a fine for anticompetitive behavior and abuse of its dominant market position. The European Commission confirmed Monday ...
Tags: Google, Europe, anticompetitive behavior, dominant market position
It really was apples-to-apples. The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical ...
Tags: Cisco proposals, California State University, network, switches, routers
On Friday Australian analysts from Foster Stockbroking told investors to get rid off their shares in rare earths miner Lynas Corporation (ASX:LYC), as there is no end in sight for the ongoing problems that have forced the company to halt ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
The Obama administration "strongly supports" a new cybersecurity bill scheduled to be debated on the Senate floor soon, even though some of its provisions are watered down from earlier legislation, the White House Office of Management and ...
Tags: The Obama administration, supports, cybersecurity bill, the Senate
Network World - It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is now offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an ...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, commercial robocalls, mobile phone
Serving the OEM paper converting industry and providing contract manufacturing services for more than 60 years, G. Bretting Manufacturing Co. Inc. is located in Ashland, WI on the southern shores of Lake Superior. The fourth generation of ...
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DECC has decided to reduce support for solar power under the Renewables Obligation from 2 ROCs today to 1.6 ROCs from April 2013 – a reduction of 20%. This is higher than the level of 1.5 ROCs which was initially proposed. The STA ...
Tags: STA, Association News, solar industry news, DECC
Business Standard reported that the INR15,000 crore aluminium plant's joint venture between Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation and Nalco is progressing at a snail pace due to various issues including red tape. It is finally expected to ...
Tags: crore aluminium, Nalco, Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation
The government is to publish details of its controversial plans to make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity. The Queen's Speech in May revealed that the government would go ahead ...
Tags: UK, Internet Monitoring Law, controversial plans, police services
There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the ...
Tags: standard protocols, data center, Ethernet LANs, server virtualization