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Following Ofcom’s net neutrality discussion paper released this week, the EC has launched a consultation on the issue. The consultation will looking at traffic management practices, such as prioritising one kind of traffic over another and conditions under which this is unfair, and whether or not competition between ISPs and the transparency requirements of the [...]

A European Commission interim report on mobile roaming costs has said that prices charged by mobile operators for voice calls abroad are still not low enough. European Commission digital agenda vice president Neelie Kroes said: "Even after the first rules on roaming tariffs and the June 2009 amendments to these, most operators propose retail prices [...]

It pays to work smarter not harder. According to a recent study by the IBM Institute for Business Value, organisations that are significantly outperforming their industry peers also happen to be making more headway on newer approaches to work. They’re using dynamic, collaborative and connected ways of working to get things done effectively within a [...]

MPs have agreed a timetable for detailed discussion of the identity documents bill and it is likely to become law by the end of July. The identity documents bill aims to scrap the ID cards scheme which was implemented by the last government. A detailed timetable for line-by-line discussion was adopted by the Commons committee [...]

Published: 2:00PM BST 30 Jun 2010 George Osborne has defended the Budget measures as necessary Photo: PA Job losses in the public sector are expected by the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) to total more than 600,000 by 2016 as massive spending cuts are imposed in a bid to cut the UK’s record deficit. The [...]

It’s splitting season in Hollywood. Stars’ breakups and divorces seem to be heating up as temperatures get warmer. The actor’s ex-wife, Diandre Douglas, may be entitled to proceeds from the film. More Photos Currently holding the title for the nastiest battle of them all: Mel Gibson vs. Oksana Grigorieva. Gibson, 54, and Grigorieva, 40, split [...]

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green: a picture of marital bliss? Actress Megan Fox marries longtime boyfriend Brian Austin Green. More Photos Fox, 24, and Green, 36, got married on June 24, after six years of dating and two engagements. Looking at the newlyweds on the beach of Hawaii’s Big Island, she in a red [...]

BANGALORE, INDIA: PC signer of a promissory note Dell, which has fallen in a soup of controversy following the excuse that it had sold faulty PCs, said that it is one “old news”. While responding to the news unearthed by ‘The New York Times’ from thoughtful court documents, the PC maker told Austin American-Statesman that [...]

BANGALORE, INDIA: Though 70 by means of cent of social media users in India identify Orkut as their preferred conversable media site, Facebook is gaining market share with 50 per cent of companionable media users claiming to use Facebook most often, compared to 38 for cent for Orkut, market researcher Nielsen’s inaugural Asia Pacific Social [...]