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  • 20 December 2005

  • News: RIM on offensive in patent dispute with NTP

    Despite expectations by industry and legal analysts that RIM (Research in Motion) would settle its ongoing patent dispute with NTP, the BlackBerry maker came out swinging yesterday, bolstered by recent decisions by the US Patent and Trademark Office that call NTP's claims into question.

  • 19 December 2005

  • News: Wireless USB creeps nearer

    The wireless replacement for USB has come a step closer to reality - and some questions on migration have been answered - with the release of a reference design from Wisair.

  • News: Microsoft to use Firefox RSS icon in IE 7.0

    Microsoft plans to use the Firefox browser's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) icon in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, according to the company's IE team blog.

  • News: Tele2 sells UK, Irish operations to Carphone Warehouse

    Swedish telecommunications operator Tele2 has sold its operations in the UK and Ireland to Carphone Warehouse for £8.7 million, Tele2 said today. Tele2 has 223,000 customers in those markets.

  • News: Patch causes glitches with beta version of IE

    Microsoft is receiving scattered reports that one of the security patches issued last week for Internet Explorer is causing problems for users testing a new beta version of the browser alongside the existing version, according to a company blogger.

  • News: Mr and Mrs Gates win Time accolade

    Time magazine has named Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and the musician Bono as its 'Persons of the year' for their charitable work, it said over the weekend.

  • 18 December 2005

  • News: Analysis: the top online shopping gotchas

    Online shopping is nearing fever pitch as Christmas approaches. 'Tis the season for shoppers to get saddled with mystery charges on their credit card, delivery no-shows and bait-and-switch sales techniques.

  • 17 December 2005

  • News: Analysis: the top 10 stories of 2005

    New pricing and business models are forcing established players to reinvent themselves, while old-line companies that have failed to meet the challenges of the new millennium are cleaning house – sometimes starting with the chief executive.

  • 16 December 2005

  • News: Opera dismisses Google takeover talk as rumour

    An Opera spokesman said on Friday that the Norwegian browser company has not been approached by Google about a possible acquisition.

  • News: On Dasher!

    Just in time for the festive season, a worm called Dasher has hit the internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft's software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or slow down the Internet Explorer browser.

  • News: Xbox 360 Japan launch sales estimated at 44,000

    Microsoft's Xbox 360 console sold just under 44,000 units in its first two days on sale in Japan, a market research company said today.

  • News: Visto sues Microsoft over wireless email patents

    Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing email from phones and other wireless devices.

  • News: Orange to launch Wi-Fi in UK

    Orange plans to launch a Wi-Fi service in the UK on Monday, the company announced yesterday. It also said it will deliver a unified mobile data and Wi-Fi service in the UK, modelled on an existing service offered by the firm in France, starting in January.

  • 15 December 2005

  • News: Google tunes up music searches

    With a revamp of its web search engine announced on Thursday, Google is aiming to make it easier for users to find music-related content such as lyrics and track listings. But the firm is pushing into an area that has been raising eyebrows among record labels.

  • News: Kazaa owners face contempt charges in Australia

    Executives of Sharman Networks, operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer filesharing system, could face jail time after record companies asked an Australian judge to find them in contempt of court, saying Sharman has failed to implement certain filtering technologies by a court-ordered early-December deadline.

  • News: Xbox team to play bigger role at Microsoft

    Microsoft plans to restructure its entertainment division and hand more control over its strategy in this area to executives that oversaw the development and launch of the Xbox 360 game console, The Wall Street Journal reported today.

  • News: Adobe launches monthly security patch

    Adobe is taking a leaf out of Microsoft's book. Next year, the Californian company will begin releasing security patches on a predictable, monthly basis, much as Microsoft has been doing since October 2003.

  • News: Microsoft: one open document standard good, two better

    Microsoft believes a future with more than one open document standard is preferable to a single standard.

  • 14 December 2005

  • News: Software 'pirate' pleads guilty to charges

    A California man who operated a website selling millions of dollars of pirated software has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal copyright infringement, the US DoJ (Department of Justice) said.

  • News: EU approves two-year data retention policy

    Telecommunications companies and ISPs face a massive increase in data storage requirements after EU lawmakers voted today to require companies to keep data for up to two years.

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