The service will allow customers to send SMSes via their Microsoft Outlook, directly to mobile devices.
Student programmers can submit their tech ideas to Microsoft for the chance to gain international recognition.
Contractors will be out of work by the end of the month, following a restructuring of the department.
What exactly is this cloud, what does it offer, and who stands to benefit?
'Hyperbolic map' saves the Net, adult movie worm spreads worldwide, Wikileaks to post biggest military leak, and MS tool mitigates Adobe vulnerability.
Security is one of the hardest things to address when considering moving applications or infrastructure into the cloud.
In this World Wide Wrap: VLC applies for iPod capabilities, Open source advocates call for protest, and
In this World Wide Wrap: IBM builds greenest data centre, HP rolls out solutions for SMEs, and global storage growth rebounds.
In this World Wide Wrap: BBC World in financial strain, ministry settles on ISDB-Tmm standard, and engineers get 3D TV boost.
Traditional security systems have failed as the industry considers network monitoring as an alternative solution.
Cybercriminals are creating nearly 60 000 fake Web sites to trick and infect users each week, reports PandaLabs.
The country's standing in the World Economic Forum's annual Global Competitiveness Ranking has lost nine places.
Local start-ups Cognician, iSigned and GetAGreatBoss, have been invited to London to compete for a possible seed investment of EUR50 000.