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Tens of thousands of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are not being diagnosed or treated quickly enough, says a watchdog.

Twitter is the hottest internet startup on the planet. Over the last few months, the messaging service it provides has morphed from a social networking tool into an instrument of revolution. So what's life like for the 52 employees at its San Francisco headquarters?• Read the interview transcript• Laura Barton's guide to Twitter etiquette• Stuart Jeffries: a how-to for late adoptersIt's a sunny, breezy afternoon in San Francisco, and I've just stepped inside the offices of one of the city's many, many web companies. Indeed, the first thing you notice is how much the large, open space looks just like any other dotcom. To one side there's a huge flatscreen TV that staff can use to play videogames during their breaks; in one corner stands a lonely red British telephone box; a pair of life-sized, green plastic deer stand in another, for no discernible reason. It definitely has all the hallmarks of a web startup.And if you didn't know any better, you might guess that thi

There’s something afoot. Microsoft is trying to sell the world a service. It’s packaged under the innocuous name: “cloud computing”. But, it’s nothing short of something harmful to people, businesses, and maybe even mankind in general. Microsoft has this vision for the next big thing. To enable that vision, the supportive framework called “Windows Azure”, an [...]

Microsoft's CEO urged partners to believe in the company's long-term strategy, while also dishing out some of the finer details behind the Azure cloud computing service.

Britain's National Health Service has a message for teens: Sex can be fun. Health officials are trying to change the tone of sex education by urging teachers to emphasize that sexual relations can be healthy and pleasurable instead of simply explaining the mechanics of sex and warning about diseases.

Smartphone maker Research In Motion has launched a new social network service for its BlackBerry App World store -- hoping to help grow its online marketplace virally and gain ground on rival Apple's popular App Store.

Cloud Servers API users will have control panel and programmatic access to all three of Rackspace's cloud infrastructure services: Cloud Servers, Cloud Files and Slicehost. The API for standards-based cloud servers is designed to give IT managers and software developers better control over their cloud infrastructures. - Cloud services provider Rackspace on july 14 released the public beta of a new application programming interface for software developers interested in better and more direct control over their own hosted computing structures. The new API immediately becomes an alternative to Amazon EC2, an onli...

Residents in north-east Tasmania say their health services are at dangerously low levels.

Verizon has launched two products that fall into what it is calling the 'social TV' service category: the Widget Bazaar application store and Internet Video on TV. The latter is a collection of widgets that Verizon has developed in conjunction with Facebook Connect, Twitter, ESPN, Veoh, Blip.tv, and Dailymotion that let FiOS TV subscribers connect with others while watching TV.

Rail service across New England would be faster, include more stops and attract twice as many riders by 2030 under an improvement ...