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UK carrier BT is to spend £1.5bn pounds (US$2.99 billion) rolling out super fast broadband to 10 million (or 40 per cent) of UK homes by 2012.

The Redflex Holdings (ASX: RDF) Subsidiary Redflex Traffic Systems has won contracts to install traffic enforcement systems in two US cities.

American Apparel wants to make sure that shoppers in its stores will always be able to find their size and favorite color when they're looking for a t-shirt -- and they're using RFID technology to do it.

Microsoft continues to give its tacit blessing for consumers to exploit a technical loophole that allows them to upgrade to Vista with Service Pack 1, even if they don't own the necessary prior editions of Windows.

Novell's steady migration to Linux and open source software as the underpinnings of its NetWare network operating system has been a success for Thomas Johnson, the CIO of US-based Metropolitan Bank Group.

Vancouver-based Absolute Software hopes its involvement in a new McAfee partnership will help give IT mangers a consolidated and simplified platform for dealing with enterprise security.

When Seattle, Washington resident David Ruggiero heard about an opportunity to get his hands on the innovative XO laptop made by the One Laptop Per Child charitable organization, he hopped on it. Within two hours after the promotion began on Nov. 12 he snapped one up.

Microsoft has started updating files on computers running Windows XP and Vista, even when users have explicitly disabled the operating systems' automatic update feature, researchers said today.

Microsoft Monday declared that a technique to delay Vista's activation as long as a year just "doesn't work." The researcher who published the activation extension claimed otherwise.

Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft's key antipiracy measures, according to Windows expert, Brian Livingston.

Windows Vista can be used for as long as 120 days without agreeing to its product activation antipiracy software, the company confirmed Friday. That's four times longer than the 30 days the company has widely used as the maximum time span the operating system can be used before it shuts down.