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Archive - 04 Jul 2005

Keeping track of the rolling stock

News If your machines can talk to each other, they can save you money, as Bombardier have learnt

North London: Cleaner, thanks to Orange

News Mobile email and fleet management systems have helped LondonWaste raise responsiveness and improve the productivity of its exec team

International roaming, domestic standards

News Orange now offers seamless roaming to more than 140 networks in 73 countries with the same service you'd expect in England

Orange and Microsoft roll out free phone trial

News Free smartphones are being offered jointly by Orange and Microsoft to let businesses see the benefits of technology for themselves

Keeping Staffordshire safe

News Raising visibility of the police and freeing up officers' time to fight crime are high priorities for any force. Orange GPRS systems are helping achieve these goals in Staffordshire

Java under the microscope

Q&A Builder: James Gosling has had a unique view of Java's development, and a unique perspective on the language's future. We took some time to talk to him about both

XP Starter under fire from all sides

Feature Microsoft is being faced a lot of tough questions about the stripped-down version of Windows XP intended for developing countries

IBM sells LCD patents

News Brief: AU Optronics has bought 170 patents from IBM

Smartphone-breaking Symbian Trojan found

News A Trojan that travels with the CommWarrior.B mobile phone virus poses a danger to users of Symbian smartphones

Criminals send malware levels soaring

News Nearly 8,000 different pieces of malicious code have been detected by Sophos this year - mainly emanating from criminal gangs

IBM deal averts strike action in Bradford

News Strike action has been averted at Bradford council's IT department and a £158m outsourcing deal with IBM has been signed

i-mate PDA2

Review Although its battery life could be better, i-mate's PDA2 is a well-specified SIM-free Pocket PC/phone that's VoIP-ready out of the box.

IT consultant fired over BBC interview

News Comments made on 'Newsnight' about intellectual-property rights have cost a British IT contractor his job

£750,000 paid up for unlicensed software use

News Microsoft is now three-quarters of a million pounds richer after settling out of court with two firms that were using unlicensed software

The Gates of Perception

Leader Bill Gates is for open minds, open standards and not that unhappy about open source. What he means by that is open to discussion

Dixons dragged into AMD vs Intel

News Dixons has been accused by AMD of limiting its share of the business to below 10 percent

IBM Global Services slims down to grow again

Analysis IBM Global Services recently unveiled a new organisational structure which the company hopes will provide much of its growth for the coming decade

IBM launches free Java toolkits

News Builder: Four sets of tools that are meant to make it easier to write Java-based Web applications are now available for download

Vodafone and MSN IM: a taste of things to come

Analysis Vodafone has been offering IM over its mobile network for around two years but this new tie-up should push it into the mainstream

London to get 24Mbps broadband

News Analysts have questioned whether there are services that warrant such high speeds, however

Motorola announces mid-range Linux phones

News Half of Motorola phones should be running the open source operating system by the end of 2007, according to one of the firm's senior executives

Pen pioneer sues Microsoft

News The founder of Go alleges that the software giant 'undertook to kill' his firm

New IE flaw details published

News All versions of Internet Explorer 6 are affected by a vulnerability that could allow for arbitrary code execution. A patch is not yet available

Gates: Internet needs improvements

News Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman

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