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Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook have been called upon to power their data centres with renewable energy sources.

A massive botnet infection affecting 75,000 systems in 2500<br />organisations around the world has been discovered by a US computer security<br />firm.

In the face of mounting economic and social pressures, businesses are shifting towards cloud computing, spurred by the demand for agility and efficiency.

Catriona Wallace champions offshoring at the CCiNZ conference, highlighting its empowerment of women in developing nations.

Email-based scams are the current attack of choice for phishers, and have prompted widespread warnings about being too casual with your passwords.

Growing signs of a “cyber cold war” as cyber attacks become politically motivated instead of financially motivated, says security firm McAfee.

The hacked accounts of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo users are being used to send phishing spam, reports security company Websense.

Users of Web-based email services such as Gmail and Hotmail are being urged to update their passwords as a major email phishing scam continues to spread.

Hotmail has taken the step of blocking access to accounts compromised in the recent phishing attack which saw users' details posted online.

Google Your Family Tree offers guidance to novice and seasoned genealogists, detailing how to leverage Google's tools for ancestral research.

Unified communications technology is providing a new, flexible working environment and helping achieve work-life balance.

Computing's future sees PCs vanish into a cloud, revolutionising data storage and access, making technology ubiquitous and intuitive.

The Palm Treo 750v blends phone, email, and 3G web with Windows Mobile in a single device, offering seamless productivity and rich multimedia features.