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Archive - 08 Feb 2006

Borland segues from coding to lifecycle management

News Builder: The company that created many famous names in software development is quitting the coding tools market and will concentrate purely on the process of software creation, backed by its...

Wanadoo rebuked over 8Mbps broadband claims

News An advertising watchdog has ruled that Wanadoo was wrong to promote an 8Mbps service that was available to just 5 percent of the population

Europe to fight mobile roaming fees

News Roaming Rip-Offs: The European Commission has lost patience over the excessive fees levied by mobile operators on customers when calling abroad

Mobile TV's picture still fuzzy

Comment 3GSM: Operators are keen to promote mobile TV — just as soon as they sort out the whats, whens, wheres, hows and why bothers

Blinkx eyes up video search market

Q&A Q&A: Can a start-up corner the video search market? Suranga Chandratillake, Britain's answer to Google's Page and Brin, says Blinkx is doing a good job of applying enterprise tech to the consumer...

3G fuels boom for advanced services

News 3G users in the UK are five times more likely to use advanced data services than their second-generation counterparts

Mobile users vent bile online

News Customer service and network quality get poor marks in users' online discussions

New software gathers dust in IT departments

News Most IT managers wait a year before they get around to deploying software they've already paid for, according to a study

MoD gives scores of applications their marching orders

News A consolidation programme will save the Ministry of Defence millions in testing and licensing costs

Think tank urges 'm-government'

News A study urges the UK to follow the lead of Norway and Sweden in using mobile IT to provide better services

Symbian makes mobile email 'simple'

News The smartphone software maker will give its seal of approval to email providers that play nicely

ITN selects start-up Blinkx for video search

News Blinkx may have come late to the search party but the upstart hopes to beat rivals like Google by focusing on video

Samsung SGH-i300

Review This Windows Mobile smartphone is remarkable for its internal 3GB hard drive, which, although primarily targeted at music fans, could prove useful to business users too. Samsung's bundle of...

Gartner: tread carefully as IM doors swing open

News The analyst firm has said that businesses should deploy 'hygene services' in order to protect their users from public messaging networks

It's a sin to lie to spiders

Leader Telling search engines one thing and site visitors another is not smart. Google is right to put BMW off the road

Browser toolbar wars get underway

News Browser add-ons from the likes of Google have become the latest source of extra income for cash-strapped PC makers

Emergency response team picks open source telephony

News Asterisk got the nod over a traditional PBX system because of its lower cost and richer features

Microsoft security service to arrive in June

News Microsoft's OneCare service will undercut established rivals on price, targeting consumers who don't run antivirus software or have let it expire

New Sun unit lines up partnerships

News An OEM unit set to launch next week will take aim at telecoms, mobile phone handsets and health care, among other industries

Google's 'death penalty' strikes another company

News The penalty for manipulating search results has been levied on Ricoh's German site, but the policy has come under criticism from some users

Toshiba debuts Duo-based Tablet PC

News The company hopes Intel's dual-core magic will keep the tablet dream alive

New Windows security issues surface

News A new Windows Meta File bug has emerged, alongside a flaw in Windows XP and a public exploit for HTML Help Workshop