Scarlet Pruitt

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Microsoft targets midmarket with Navision update

The update is partly aimed at connecting partners and customers, offering an XML (Extensible Markup Language) port so customers can customize the software for document exchange.

Study: Mobile phone use increases brain tumor risk

Ten or more years of mobile phone use can dramatically increase the risk of developing a benign tumor on the auditory nerve, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Experts wonder: is telecom dead?

There was one question on the minds of technology leaders attending the Etre conference in Cannes on Tuesday: "Is telecom dead?" Paradoxically, however, whether they answered yes or no, they pointed to the same reason: Skype.

SCO’s McBride warns of open source ‘wild west’

Protect your intellectual property (IP) now or risk having your business sacked by open souce-touting bandits, The SCO Group Inc. president and CEO Darl McBride warned on Tuesday.

Report: Poor infrastructure hinders e-gov’t in new E.U.

While new European Union (E.U.) member countries must meet key requirements on e-government initiatives to fit in with the union's goal of creating an advanced information society, many of the countries are being hindered by poor communications and IT infrastructure, a new report claims.

Ireland blocks calls to 13 countries to thwart Net scam

Ireland's telecom regulator said this week that is taking "extraordinary" measures to protect Internet users from rogue autodialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges by suspending direct dialing to 13 countries, most of which are South Pacific islands.

German software pirate and his father get jail time

The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.

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