An unusually broad coalition of tech companies, investors and civil liberties groups published an open letter to the government to change the Patriot Act. Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a major cyber-security bill that would change how companies like Facebook can share personal information. Privacy advocates are in uproar and the Obama Administration is… Read more »
This report is intended to provide ISVs with guidance on partnering with hosting companies, establishing criteria for selecting a hosting service, metrics for measuring hosting performance as it relates to cloud… Read more »
Sean Gallagher has a piece on Ars Technica this morning, which suggests that Microsoft lost a deal with European defence contractor BAE Systems… because of fears about PATRIOT Act-endorsed snooping. Microsoft,… Read more »
A long-running clash of legal approaches to the handling of personal data is coming to a head, as European countries begin to act. In Germany, Deutsche Telekom is calling for more stringent… Read more »
A Microsoft executive’s answer to a question during the London launch of Office 365 last month has caused a bit of a storm. As Zack Whittaker reported for ZDNet, Microsoft “admitted”… Read more »
Cloud computing solutions of various flavors continue to grow in popularity, as individuals, small startups and global corporations turn to the cloud in order to store data, distribute computing tasks, or… Read more »