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Archive - 31 Jan 2006

Orange roaming rates claim another victim

News Roaming Rip-Offs: Another Orange customer has come home to a staggeringly large bill after downloading a small amount of mobile data abroad

NHS hits back at critics over IT delays

News 'Suppliers take risks, not the taxpayer', says the NHS, amid allegations that its massive IT project is in a state of disarray

Massachusetts picks new CIO

News Following the departure of Peter Quinn, Massachusetts has turned to a technology strategist to drive its move to OpenDocument

MPs savage taxman's IT farce

News An ‘inflexible IT system’ supplied by EDS has been blamed once again for serious problems with the tax credit system

The open source techie who means business

Q&A Alan Cox is one of the most respected figures in the open source community but he is also no stranger to the machinations of big business and recently completed an MBA

Can Bill even give his software away? A hundred dollars says he can't

Leader The most curious effect of the $100 laptop isn’t how it’s affecting the very poor, more what it’s doing to the very rich

Software file-sharers face crackdown

News ISPs have been ordered to supply the details of 150 people accused of software copyright infringement

UK Linux guru backs GPL 3

News Linus Torvalds may have his doubts, but Alan Cox is supporting the next version of the GPL

Centeris brings Linux and Microsoft together

News Unix and Windows system managers and administrators often occupy two different worlds, but one company is trying to bring them together

Microsoft merges corporate communications divisions

News Email and IM are now managed under the same banner in Redmond

SAP preps for hosted CRM launch

News Three months later than planned, the German firm's hosted CRM offering is almost ready for the public

$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'

News Putting an open source-based laptop in the hands of millions of users around the world will help drive home the importance of non-proprietary development and applications, says Red Hat

Winamp gets critical patch

News A serious flaw in the popular MP3 player has been patched by Nullsoft

SpinVox

Review If you find handling voicemail on your mobile a chore, check out SpinVox's impressive voicemail-to-SMS (and/or email) service.

Europe gets Microsoft technology licensing boost

News Small firms in Europe and Asia should now find it easier to license Microsoft's intellectual property

Satellite failure fallout continues

News The loss of Aramiska's satellite broadband service has left users fuming, as they scramble to restore connectivity

Patent ruling forces Office upgrades

News Microsoft has warned corporate customers that they may need to start using a different version of Office, following a recent legal setback

IBM gives the iSeries more Power

News IBM's Rochester-based iSeries division has set out its stall for 2006 with some new software, a faster processor and iSCSI compatibility