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British Telecommunications PLC (BT) plans to extend its hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service from the U.K. to Ireland, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands this year, it said at the Cebit trade show here in Hanover, Germany, on Thursday.

HANOVER, GERMANY - Most security issues and virus outbreaks happen because people don't know how to protect themselves or don't bother to do what they know they should. In the latest update to Windows XP, Microsoft Corp. has focused on helping people become more aware of what they need to do, and encouraging them to actually do it, lead program manager for Service Pack 2 Ryan Burkhardt said Thursday.

The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has pulled out of a 10-year,

Open source software needs to be more widely used if the next wave of technology is to fully take off, IBM Corp.'s vice-president of technology and strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, said Monday.

IBM Corp. launched an Autonomic Computing Toolkit on Monday, to help developers build self-healing computer systems.

Microsoft Corp. is continuing efforts to sell software upgrades to the Israeli government, despite the government's recent decision to stop buying Microsoft applications in protest over the Redmond, Wash., company's sales policies.

RealNetworks Inc.'s media player software contains vulnerabilities that could let an attacker take control of a PC on which the software is used to download multimedia files, the company confirmed this week.

British Telecommunications PLC's (BT) Global Services unit has launched a service to monitor and manage customer's networks, hoping to boost sales in its networking business at the same time.