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RSS friday in newsReliability race: Microsoft OS beats Apple, Ubuntu
News Microsoft's Windows Update was available 100 per cent of the second quarter of 2008, Pingdom said in a blog posting on Friday. Pingdom, a company that measures internet service reliability, has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating... [15 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G sales hit one million mark
News Despite the outages, shortages, and related hand-wringing associated with last Friday's iPhone 3G launch and Thursday's release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple says there were nevertheless 10 million downloads from its new App Store in its first... [14 Jul 2008]
Malware threat for iPhone 2.0
News The company's report, released on Friday, on the security threat landscape for the first half of 2008, and in its outlook for the second half of the year, warned that "iPhone customers will likely suffer from mobile malware threats until security... [14 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! rejects latest Microsoft deal
News The joint proposal, issued on Friday night, gave Yahoo! Yahoo! announced on Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal by Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo! [14 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News The 3G iPhone goes on sale this Friday 11 July and the launch hype is already in overdrive - but is the device really going to take the corporate world by storm, as O2 hopes? O2 has warned consumer customers intending to purchase an iPhone on... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News Many European countries have already deployed fibre to the home (FTTH), and a European body that deals with NGA issued a report on Friday in which it said such improvements in broadband speeds clearly resulted in more usage. [07 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News However, a spokesperson for Nominet, the organisation that runs the .uk TLD, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that applying to set up a new TLD would involve "a significant investment". The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare... [30 Jun 2008]
The Bill Gates era ends at Microsoft
News Bill Gates leaves Microsoft on Friday 27 June after more than 30 years in charge of one of the biggest and most influential technology companies in the world. Bill Gates steps down from full-time work on Friday after more than 30 years in charge. [26 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs
News Bill Gates formally steps down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft on Friday 27 June to pursue his philanthropic efforts through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and IT chiefs have hailed his legacy to the industry. [26 Jun 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News A Soca spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday: "We are aware of anecdotal evidence of organised criminals [who are] moving into e-crime targeting people at an academic level. As organised criminals move from more... [23 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News Chia Yong Choon, regional marketing director Asia-Pacific and Korea at NXP Semiconductors, said at an NXP briefing on Friday that with mobile markets in Europe and the US growing saturated, the next great opportunity lies in emerging nations such... [09 Jun 2008]
Ofcom: Digital dividend up for grabs to highest bidder
News The regulator said on Friday that it would hold an auction next year, after which 128MHz of spectrum would be "freed up for new uses in phases". Ofcom's consultation on the matter opened on Friday, and will close on 15 August. [09 Jun 2008]
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... [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... [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... [28 Apr 2008]
