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O2 hits 3G target at last

News On Friday, Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, said the operator had now rolled out 3G coverage to at least 80 per cent of the UK population, as it was obliged to do. O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence...

Tags: 3g, o2, ofcom

[06 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News In a Friday press conference, SAP president Bill McDermott referred to the idea of making SAP applications natively available on BlackBerry smart phones as "record-breaking and ground-shaking". SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year

News Rich Sands, Sun's group manager for developer marketing, confirmed on Friday that Sun expects the work to be completed by the end of this year. The hold-out elements that made up the remaining four per cent comprised "some encryption libraries...

Tags: linux, java, sun

[28 Apr 2008]

O2 to launch mobile broadband offering

News O2 will launch its mobile broadband service on Friday, becoming the last major UK operator to do so. However, the service initially will be made available only to O2's existing customers. Opting for an 18-month contract, users will get a free USB...

Tags: dongle, mobile, broadband, o2

[17 Apr 2008]

AMD tech chief resigns

News He said: "We don't have any plans to continue that global CTO position," adding that last Friday was Hester's last day at the company. AMD, the second-largest maker of computer processors after Intel, has said Phil Hester, the company's chief...

Tags: cto, intel, amd

[15 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News A spokesperson for the parliament told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that, while the reports were recommendations and not legally binding, they summed up "what the mood is now" in Europe.

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

Bill Gates: Windows 7 coming 'in the next year or so'

News Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expects the latest Windows operating system, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so". The software giant has been aiming to issue more regular updates of the operating...

Tags: microsoft, bill gates, windows, vista

[07 Apr 2008]

Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals

News The PSIR finished taking submissions on Friday 4 April, including from major outsourcing providers like LogicaCMG, and is being headed by DeAnne Julius after being commissioned by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Tags: compass, outsourcing

[04 Apr 2008]

EC examines Nokia bid for Navteq

News The proposed TomTom-Tele Atlas transaction is under review by the Commission, which on Friday extended the deadline for its decision on that deal. The European Commission has said it has opened an in-depth investigation into plans by Nokia to buy...

Tags: eu, ec, navteq, nokia

[31 Mar 2008]

Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation

News When the Future of Web Apps conference (Fowa) wound down on Friday, a few things were clear, not the least of which is the fact that open standards are a big factor. Google engineer Kevin Marks gave a talk at Fowa about APIs and Google's role in...

Tags: google, myspace, social networking, open source

[03 Mar 2008]

Some to get Vista SP1 this week

News Yesterday, Microsoft reversed course and said it would make the code available to volume licence customers on Friday, with Technet and MSDN developer programme members having access to the software later this month.

Tags: microsoft, sp1, vista, drivers

[12 Feb 2008]

Confusion over Office streaming service

News Michala Wardell, head of anti-piracy at Microsoft UK, said on Friday last week: "Fasthosts is a valued Microsoft partner who we have a great relationship with. However, in a statement late on Friday, Fasthosts said it had "not been contacted by...

Tags: office, fasthosts, microsoft, installation

[11 Feb 2008]

Microsoft/Yahoo! 'internet competition' hearing postponed

News Just hours after word of the proposed deal emerged last Friday, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust task force said it planned to hold a hearing on 8 February to examine "the state of competition on the internet...

Tags: antitrust, yahoo, microsoft, committee

[08 Feb 2008]

HMRC waives late fee after site crash

News As a result of the problem, the deadline was initially extended by 24 hours to the end of Friday 1 February, with users not being fined for filing after the original deadline. But with many people also unable to access the website on the Friday and...

Tags: fines, hmrc, outage, website

[05 Feb 2008]

Yahoo! bides its time with Microsoft bid

News The company issued a brief statement on Friday morning but said only that it was reviewing Microsoft's offer and the company declined all further comment. Yahoo! has said its response to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn takeover bid will not be...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, bid, stories

[04 Feb 2008]

Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 01.02.08

Round-Up Podcast Funeral '2.0', email-free 'stress down' Friday, wearing slippers to work and a Rubik's cube-solving robot are all featured on the silicon.com Weekly Round-Up podcast this week. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Tim...

Tags: friday, web 2.0, funeral, email

[01 Feb 2008]

Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day

News An HMRC spokesman told silicon.com the organisation takes disruption of any service very seriously and to reflect this, the self-assessment deadline has been extended by 24 hours to midnight on Friday 1 February.

Tags: hmrc, deadline, government gateway, tax

[31 Jan 2008]

Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?

News On Friday Accenture will launch the beta of its Green Data Centre Calculator, aimed at helping companies tame energy hungry centres, bringing huge cost savings and environmental benefits. Data centres are computational workhorses which can greedily...

Tags: green, accenture, data centre, savings

[30 Jan 2008]

Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records

News The MoD admitted the breach on Friday following the theft from a Royal Navy recruitment officer's car in Edgbaston in Birmingham on 9 January. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) laptop containing personal data about 600,000 people has been stolen in the...

Tags: mod, ico, security, data loss

[21 Jan 2008]

Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld

Photo The Mac conference and expo is running until Friday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The Apple display at Macworld 2008 features MacBook Airs - the latest addition to the MacBook family - hanging from the ceiling.

Tags: steve jobs, ipod, apple, mac

[17 Jan 2008]

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