Infrastructure

The U.K.'s WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) is expanding its battery recycling trials with the launch of new retail take-back, community drop-off and postal collection plans for batteries.

A technology known as iSCSI has heralded a user-friendly, and cheaper storage alternative for cash-strapped businesses.

Language changes with time. But should today's language of virtual communication kill the King's English? That's the stark question we face.

Overseas hackers broke into customer accounts at two popular online stock brokerages, TD Ameritrade and E-Trade, in a "pump and dump" stock-trading scheme that led to at least $24.7 (US$22) million in losses.

Research In Motion announced server software that makes it easier for companies to deploy mobile applications tied into back-end data.

Advanced Micro Devices plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement came as AMD completed its $6.08 billion merger with Canadian graphics chip manufacturer ATI Technologies on Wednesday.

Oracle Corp.'s imminent purchase of software vendor MetaSolv Inc. is in line with the "acquire and assimilate" strategy being pursued by Oracle, says Joshua Greenbaum, principal, Enteprise Applications Consulting in a discussion with Joaquim P. Menezes, IT World Canada's online editor.

Encouraged by the transformative impact that telecommunications, particularly cellular networks, have had on developing countries in Africa and elsewhere, the World Bank's private-sector investment arm plans to expand the scope of its investments to include content providers, according to a senior executive.