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



