HP and Microsoft, which have always had a fairly tight relationship, just inked another agreement that enables HP to offer Office 365 services and support. The new agreement will allow HP to manage Office 365 and related HP services for enterprise customers, and also allows select HP datacenters to be used by Microsoft for Office 365 email hosting. The services will be administered through HP’s new business, HP Enterprise Services for Office 365. It will include front-end planning and advisory services as well as administration servic...

Two senior Google engineers have written a confusing article explaining what they learned after Google stopped its advanced research and development effort into renewable energy technologies in 2011. The answer they offer — that their effort was not on track to deliver renewable R&D breakthroughs that by themselves would reverse climate change — has always been obvious and thus makes very little sense as a reason for giving up on such an important effort, as we will see. More likely, Google saw renewable en...

Robi Axiata Limited, one of the leading mobile phone operators of the country has launched electricity bill payment service facility for Power Development Board (PDB) at Mymensingh region. Robi believes that this will facilitate a reliable and convenient mechanism for the clients of PDB to pay their monthly electricity bills. Robi’s system for mobile payment of electricity bills will be integrated with the PDB’s electricity billing system. Hence, electricity bills paid through Robi’s electricity bills payment system will be updated on PDB’s billing system on real time basis. From convenience point of view, PDB clients may choose to pay their electricity bills either through Robi Cash Points or through their mobile phone.