New EU roaming charge legislation will force European mobile phone operators to offer their customers a cut-off facility which aims to stop them receiving bill shocks after using their mobile phones to access data in other EU countries. Roaming charges are extra costs applied to residents who use their mobile phone outside their country of [...]

IDG News Service Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard. At a press briefing via telepresence on Thursday, Cisco gave details of the Intercompany Media Engine IME, a server that will make it easier for employees [...]

Never give permission to something like a little patent infringement lawsuit get in the tendency of action of good business deal. That seems to be the prevailing attitudes of both Microsoft and Motorola. Executives from both companies said yesterday that they would have ~ing willing to work together on a Windows Phone 7 device. However, [...]

Has Microsoft for~ faced so many competitive challenges? SaaS providers are nipping away its traditionary desktop software business, Apple and Google forced Microsoft to reset its variable strategy and Google continues to eat the companys lunch without interrupti~ the search side. Among developments on the plus side of the ledger, Office is still by far [...]

MPs have given the go-ahead for the preparation of an e-petitions system that could result in parliament being forced to debate popular but embarrassing issues because they have secured widespread support. The Commons has approved a motion without any debate that authorises preparation of a revised scheme on which progress was previously blocked by deputy [...]

IDG News Service Twitter plans to launch a new platform that lets Web publishers display tweets on their sites more broadly and easily than is possible today via the companys APIs application programming interfaces. The new frameworks, collectively called @anywhere, will let Web publishers bring in relevant “tweets” to their sites by inserting “a few [...]

Plan is an international humanitarian, child rights development organization without religious, political or governmental affiliation. Plans vision is a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect peoples rights and dignity. Working with children, their families and communities in 50 of the worlds poorest countries, Plan today is one of [...]

SHELBY if youve ever felt flustered or uncertain when faced with speaking to a crowd, youre not alone. Toastmasters is an international club started with the object of alleviating some of the stress associated with speech-making. the goal of the organization is to provide a relaxed atmosphere for people interested in honing their public speaking [...]

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, with his fiance, St Trinians star Talulah Riley. Photograph Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images For the past few weeks, engineers have been carrying out detailed tests on a pencil-slim rocket sitting on launch pad 40 at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. In a few days, the team will leave the [...]

InfoWorld Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every [...]