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Fear of China's and India's growing strengths as outsourcing and development centres permeated the U.K. government's enterprise conference in London Monday, where top technology executives and government leaders met to discuss strategies for developing more business at home.

Fear of China's and India's growing strengths as outsourcing and development centres permeated a recent enterprise conference put on by the U.K. government in London, where top technology executives and government leaders met to discuss strategies for developing more business at home.

Six of the U.K.'s largest mobile phone operators announced plans Monday to censor content and services delivered over new third-generation (3G) handsets as part of an effort to keep minors from accessing adult material such as gambling sites, pornography and unmonitored chat rooms.

Fresh from a profitable quarter, IBM Corp. has announced plans to hire 15,000 additional employees worldwide.

PeopleSoft Inc. is once again extending a customer refund offer aimed at fending off Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover attempt.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. extended its line of Athlon 64 processors Tuesday, rolling out three new mobile chips and a processor aimed at desktop PCs and desktop replacement notebooks.

Wireless network provider T-Mobile USA Inc. has signed an agreement allowing corporate users of virtual network operator iPass Inc. to access its public Wi-Fi network in the U.S.

A set of new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser which used together could allow hackers to compromise user PCs, researchers warned Tuesday.