T-Mobile’s decision tocap customer data allowanceson its networks has sparked so much outrage among its subscribers that UK regulatory body Ofcom has decided to look at the recent service changes to make sure that customers are adequately protected. The company amended its data policy, leaving customers unaware of whether they will be affected. A monthly allowance that once totaled 1GB has now been slashed in half to 500MB, to provide “a better experience for all our customers who use internet on their phone”....

2011 promises to be an active year for the social e-commerce industry in the Middle East from the very beginning as Egypt gets its first group buying service by Offerna (meaning ‘our offer’). The group discount/buy model offers a discount from a local vendor allowing you to sign up for the purchase if you’re interested. If enough people show interest, the offer goes live and consumers can buy the coupon until the deadline is reached or it sells out....

WinRumors is reporting that the first service pack for Office 2010 will bereleased on Tuesday morning. Tomorrow also marks the formal public release of Office 365, the event for which will provide a very fertile platform for Microsoft to release the update for its current version of Office. Again according to WinRumors, the software should be available at 9 am Pacific Standard Time. The service pack was promised by the company to land no later than the end of June, a deadline that Microsoft is set to keep....

The time is now: The first service pack for Office 2010 is live. If you are looking for the 32 bit version, gohere. If you need the 64 bit version, headhere. Yesterday webrought you the newsthat the service pack was due today, in keeping with a previous Microsoft promise that the update to its premier productivity suite would come before the end of June. The service pack contains mostly bug fixes and small, incremental upgrades, as opposed to new features....

This morning Microsoftofficially released Office 365. The productivity suite matters as it represents the market leader’s view on how such applications and the cloud can best work together. Whether you agree with Microsoft’s vision of the future or not, Office 365 is an important product simply in terms of the precedent that it sets. To catch you up, if you are in the dark, this is how we described Office 365 earlier today:...