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Microsoft battles PC bloat with new Signature tune-up

Microsoft has had the bloatware accusation thrown at it countless times but now the company reportedly wants to make money turning back the tide of PC-slowing software with a little-known service called ?Signature?.
LifeSize unveils all-in-one HD videoconferencing units

LifeSize on Tuesday unveiled two portable, all-in-one videoconferencing units for various work spaces, including home offices, meeting rooms and executive offices.
Microsoft preparing Windows 8 upgrade deal for early June debut, report says

Microsoft will kick off a Windows 8 upgrade program for buyers of Windows 7 PCs in early June, according to a report.
CEO Paul Otellini boasts Intel has advantage over ARM on Windows 8 tablets

Intel CEO Paul Otellini thinks the company has an advantage over its rival ARM on Windows 8 for tablets because of decades of developing x86 chips that support the Windows operating system.
Arup outsources data centre to Vtesse, to cope with growth

More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space
Nokia loses UK patent appeal against IPCom

London's Court of Appeal has dismissed Nokia's attempt to overturn a ruling that it infringed on an IPCom patent. Nokia said the decision won't affect its current products, but IPCom doesn't agree and is continuing to seek an injunction against all Nokia 3G phones, it said.
Viewing child porn on the Web is not a crime in New York, court rules

Just viewing child pornography on the Web is not necessarily a crime according to New York law, the state's Court of Appeals decided Tuesday, but upheld the conviction of the appellant by a county court on other counts of storage of images and video of child pornography on his hard disk.
Microsoft security patches fix 23 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows

Microsoft has fixed 23 vulnerabilities in its software products, including several considered critical, the company said on Tuesday in its monthly security patch report.
Microsoft makes ambitious carbon neutral pledge

Microsoft has made an ambitious pledge to be carbon neutral from July 1, the start of its 2012 financial year.
Microsoft to raise UK prices by a third from 1 July, can?t rule out future hikes

Microsoft has revealed that it will increase volume licencing prices in the UK by an average of 29 percent to adjust for the ?sustained currency differences between European countries?.

Latest Features

10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it)

The first 801.11ac chipsets are coming soon, but 802.11n is likely to stick around for many years to come -- both in the business world and our homes. Unfortunately, the 300Mbps (megabits per second) that the n-standard promises rarely delivers anything even close and proves to be a massive bottleneck in the days of 50/100Mbps (or more?) broadband connections, 1080p video streaming, massive backups and so forth. On the business side of things, even menial tasks such as remote desktop or real-time collaboration suffer from a poor Wi-Fi-connection.
Wi-Fi-Blocking wallpaper keeps your signal in and intruders out

French scientists have created a type of wallpaper that can block Wi-Fi signal, meaning you can boost your network security and redecorate all in one go.
Is your printer a security sore spot?

Believe it or not, your network printer or copier could be a serious security liability. After all, theyoften handle very sensitive documents and information and could even be used to gain access to other computers on the network, so you won't want a hacker to get at it. It's time to take printer security seriously.
Google Drive vs. Microsoft SkyDrive - 4 reasons Google is better

Google Drive, Google's online storage service is finally available after years of rumors, but with Microsoft's SkyDrive offering more space and better integration with Windows 8, is Drive really worth the wait?
SkyDrive improvements make cloud storage tool a threat to Dropbox

Microsoft is shaking things up with SkyDrive. The new features and capabilities move it out of the Microsoft-centric shadows and pit it more directly against Dropbox, and possibly the imminently rumored Google Drive. However, Microsoft also announced a change to SkyDrive that many won't appreciate.
Securing your business in the cloud

Any IT professional who has heard ?send it to my Gmail? echo across the office will know how impossible it is to keep employees from using outside applications for work when those provided don?t quite meet their needs.
IT can lower your carbon-footprint

Traditional IT roles focus on enabling business and enhancing efficiency. But at UK-based real estate consulting and management firm Knight Frank, IT project management skills into achieving the business's strategic goal - a low-carbon emission operation.
Bring your own device - Effective policies and practice in a BYOD environment

Bring your own device (BYOD) is now ubiquitous among enterprises. For IT leaders this has meant developing and maintaining effective policies and practices to keep the organisation secure and efficient, while managing a proliferation of devices.
Down and dirty IT jobs: Grime and punishment

Flame wars, leakage, nasty Polish texting - six more tales of dirty duty in IT
Slow Flashback Trojan response is Apple's "Adobe moment"

Apple could be experiencing an ?Adobe moment? over its handling of the Flashback Trojan, with security companies heaping criticism on the company for its slerotic response.

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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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