Microsoft Spotlights Opportunity Divide for Youth
New report from the International Youth Foundation outlines actions to better prepare the 1.2 billion global youth entering the 21st century workforce.
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
McCain slams DHS, wants DOD to defend cyberspace
A Senate budget hearing on the Defense Department's Strategic and Cyber Commands became a duel over how the nation's cyber defense should be structured.
GAO: Agencies expose themselves to IT supply-chain threats
The four departments with national security responsibilities haven't identified the threats or developed mitigation policies and procedures, a report states.
All used up: Agency hardware recycling guideline lacks muscle
GSA guidelines don't carry the weight that mandates do with feds, and GAO believes that the rules for electronic waste disposal needs the backing of an agency with enforcement powers.
Online Advertising Startup Competes More Effectively, Spends Less on IT With Cloud-Based Windows Azure
Fast-growing Crumbtag adopts Windows Azure to meet its massive data-processing needs without buying costly IT infrastructure.
Oil and Gas Companies Report Increased Spending on Technology to Aid Global Integration and Efficiencies
Accenture and Microsoft survey of upstream sector shows mitigating risks and new drilling regulations are high on companies’ operational excellence agenda.
Microsoft-led raids disrupt 'some of the worst' Zeus botnets
The company's Digital Crimes Unit, with an assist from the U.S. Marshals Service, confiscates servers and IP addresses and files civil charges against 39 unknown defendants.
FTC recommends Do Not Track be voluntary — or else
The commission calls for greater regulation of data brokers and a Do-Not-Track option that could be made law if not adopted voluntarily.
Farm Service Agency looks to the cloud for imagery data
The Agriculture Department's Farm Service Agency is investigating how geospatial imagery data can be delivered via cloud-based Web services.
Microsoft and Nokia to Invest Up to 18 Million Euros in Mobile Application Development Program at Aalto University
Mobile developers to benefit from funding, training, support and business opportunities as Microsoft and Nokia launch the AppCampus program at Aalto University.