EU launches antitrust investigation into IBM's mainframe practices

It's not quite clear where this new Azure appliance is going to fit in with Microsoft's other products. Certainly, there might be some interesting conversations between server salespeople and those hawking Azure unless Microsoft can get a consistent message across.

Mail security and software utilties company GFI Software has bought independent US antivirus company Sunbelt Software for an undisclosed sum.

Mainstream media ignored important additional research related to the video of a U.S. Apache helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq that was leaked to the Wikileaks Web site, according to its founder and editor, Julian Assange.

A hacker claims to have cracked the Skype'sproprietary encryption protocols that protect the VoIP company's intellectual property.

A good wrap up that details the technology mistakes made by the Russia spy suspects

The long-awaited US Supreme Court has side-stepped the question of whether the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent. The ruling on Bilski vs. Kappos is a mess. Where many hoped fervently for some clarity to be brought to the ill-defined rules for patenting business methods and software in the US, the court instead was timid in the extreme.

The bill would define the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in the event of a massive cyber-attack or national-security emergency. Many critics fear the cybersecurity bill contains a "kill switch" that would enable the President to turn off the Internet.In reality, the bill would strengthen and extend congressional oversight and protections of the Internet in the event of an emergency while providing the White House and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with appropriate mechanisms to respond to an attack, the bill's sponsors replied. What do you think?

A new book called Greening IT - freely available online - provides a handy overview of Green technology.

British scientists have come up with a simple way to generate the entangled photons needed by quantum computers using a cheap light emitting diode (LED) powered by electrical voltage. The optical quantum computer is powerful enough to solve problems so far intractable using conventional digital logic, but requires a large number of entangled photons.