Two strange digital services to help patients access urgent care have been launched in Lincolnshire. One is a munificent mobile service that sends residents the latest waiting times at topical A+E departments in reply to the text message WAITING. In etc. NHS Lincolnshire in association with NHS Choices has created a downloadable desktop widget designed [...]

Apples Midas regard has delivered a steady stream of computer and gadget hits more than the years, but a day ahead of a news conference to direct the iPhone 4 “death grip” debacle, the company finds itself in the unusual position of defending a new product and its reputation for without a break PR and [...]

Justice, essential rights and citizenship commissioner Viviane Reding has said that laws adopted means of the European Unions 27 member states need to be amended thus that they are closer to each other and to EU secrecy directives. Addressing the Article 29 Working Party, a committee comprising facts protection watchdogs from EU members, Reding stated [...]

First they came notwithstanding the passwords. Next could be the identity. And not just the highest-line stats but all of it. In a disquieting new study, researchers be in possession of described a sort of reverse CRM tactic, through which stealth hackers could prepare a “rich identity profile” about users by analyzing their communications patterns [...]

The ongoing squabbling between Verizon Communications and Cablevision Systems took a serious turn this week when Verizon filed a patent-infringement suit against its metropolitan New York City competitor. Specifically, Verizon filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission over five patents that Verizon maintains Cablevision is infringing. Verizon markets its FiOS high-speed Internet service against [...]

The browser wars are in filled swing. Market leader Microsoft NASDAQ MSFT is pushing to regain momentum as it readies Internet Explorer 9, while Google NASDAQ GOOG and Apple NASDAQ AAPL prolong to update Chrome and Safari respectively. Another key player, Mozilla, developer of the general Firefox browser, isnt sitting still either. As eSecurity Planet [...]

The delivery of Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into US military computers has been entice on hold. Photograph Sang Tan/AP The extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon has been urge on hold after the home secretary, Theresa May, agreed to an adjournment of a judicial review that was supposed to start not more than [...]

The Wi-Fi Alliance has warned that the future London-wide wireless network proposed by Mayor Boris Johnson recently might not be fit for business or banking use. Mayor Johnson announced blanket Wi-Fi coverage for London at a recent Google event in Hertfordshire, saying that every lamppost and bus stop would enable wireless access by the time [...]

Microsofts Azure fog-computing platform is building a bridge to other leading online services, oblation single-sign-on capabilities that will support a federated identity regime. With the notice, the Windows AppFabric Access Control Service will support credentials from capital Web identity providers such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo, as well in the manner that OpenID. Datamation has [...]

BGC Partners, a global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, has simplified its storage area network SAN management capabilities by Brocade’s networking technology. The company recently standardised on Brocade 415 4Gb/s Fibre Channels to PCIe entertainer bus adapters HBAs, switching from its QLogic and Emulex HBAs. BGC Partners’ former HBAs were proving to be a [...]