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Submission + - Symbian Supporters Rally After Gartner Comment (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Supporters of Symbian have responded quickly to a Gartner analyst who has said the mobile operating system is doomed without a new user interface.

“I think the Symbian foundation is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and ignoring the Android iceberg ahead,” said Gartner vice president Nick Jones in a blog post last week.
Security

Submission + - BlackBerry Consumers To Get Enterprise Security (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is poised to offer consumers several features that until now have been extended only to its enterprise customers.

RIM introduced BlackBerry Protect on the company’s Inside BlackBerry blog on 12 July, announcing that the software is currently being beta tested and will launch later the same week as a limited beta to certain members of the BlackBerry Beta Zone programme.

Submission + - Orange Hits Back at 3G Advert Ruling (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Orange has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to pull an advert which claimed it had a bigger 3G network than its rivals

Orange has become the latest mobile operator to incur the wrath of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after it ordered Orange to pull an advert that claimed its 3G network had a better reach than its rivals.

Rival operator 3UK complained after a regional press advert for Orange mobile broadband showed an image of a dongle on top of a prize podium, with the title “top dongle”.
What raised 3’s hackles was the claim which said that “The Orange 3G network covers more people in the UK than any other operator. And, from under £5 a month, you could be one of them.”
Intel

Submission + - Freedom4’s WiMAX Licence Sold For £12.

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: The WiMAX licence held by Freedom4 was sold last week in a deal that leaves PCCW with all the UK's WiMAX licences

The WiMAX spectrum licence in Great Britain, that was held by Freedom4 (now owned by Daisy Group), has been sold to UK Broadband for £12.5 million in a cash deal.

Freedom4 used to be known as Pipex Wireless, and was created back in 2006 by the ISP Pipex Communications and Intel Capital in order to develop and roll out WiMAX-based networks in the UK. However, the Pipex ISP business was sold off to Tiscali in 2007 and, for the next two years, Freedom4 went it alone as the principle driver of WiMAX in the UK.
IBM

Submission + - Neon Complains To EC About IBM’s Business Pr (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Neon Enterprise Software, already suing IBM in the US, says it will file a similar complaint in Europe accusing IBM of anti-competitive practices

Neon Enterprise Software, which already is in a legal dispute with IBM over the tech giant’s business practices surrounding its mainframe business, will now file a complaint with European regulators.

In a brief statement released on 24 June, Neon officials said the company will file the complaint with the European Commission—the antitrust arm of the European Union—alleging “ongoing anti-competitive and abusive conduct” by IBM to do with its Series z mainframe business.
The Internet

Submission + - WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: British company claims to have solved the problem of delivering a reliable broadband connection to people in rural communities.

Deltenna has developed a small, self installable gadget called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler), which uses the 3G mobile network to create a 2Mbps web hotspot. The device sounds similar in concept to devices like Novatel’s MiFi — but Deltenna claims it works even in places where a 3G mobile phone wouldn’t register a signal. The WiBE has five-times the range of a 3G dongle, and can deliver 30-times data throughput as well compared to a 3G USB modem dongle, Deltenna believes
Iphone

Submission + - Symbian 3 Is Ready To Go (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: The Symbian 3 operating system is ready but Nokia's N8 smartphone will be a bit late to take on Apple's iPhone 4

The Symbian Foundation has said version 3 of the Symbian open source mobile phone operating system is finished and ready for use by device makers and developers.

The new version will run on the Nokia N8 phone due to appear shortly, and improves the Symbian operating system — the most widespread smartphone OS in the world — in various ways. Symbian 3 (also called Symbian^3 or S^3) was demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in February, when the second version of Symbian was released as open source.
Intel

Submission + - US Suspends Legal Action Against Intel (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: Intel and the Federal Trade Commission have suspended legal proceedings related to the lawsuit filed by the federal regulators against the chip maker while the two sides try to negotiate a settlement.

In a statement released on 21 June, Intel officials said the two sides agreed to file a joint motion to suspend the administrative trial proceedings to give the parties time to negotiate. According to Intel, the motion calls for suspending the proceedings until 22 July.
Apple

Submission + - What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) for Business (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman investigates what businesses can expect from Apple's new iOS 4. Multitasking, the biggest new capability, is for now simply a promise, as apps will need to be retrofitted to make use of the capability. The other big new capability for IT, a set of APIs that allow BlackBerry-like management of the iPhone, such as auditing of policies and apps, over-the-air provisioning of apps without iTunes, and over-the-air configuration and policy management, also remains in the realm of promise, as the various mobile management tools that have been reworked to take advantage of the new iOS 4 capabilities won't be available until July or later. And despite the fact that email works more as it does on the desktop, iOS 4 still fails to deliver several email capabilities key to business users, including zipped attachment management, junk mail filtering, message rules, and message flagging."

Submission + - Vodafone Told Off For Femtocell Ad Claims (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: The advertising regulator has rapped Vodafone over the knuckles concerning an advert claim about its Sure Signal femtocell

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has reprimanded mobile operator Vodafone over advert claims concerning its Sure Signal femtocell.

Vodafone was the first European operator to launch its Vodafone Access Gateway back in June last year. Then in January, Vodafone renamed the femtocell as Sure Signal and also dramatically cut the price of the device to just £50, from £160.
Education

Submission + - Cambridge University To Cut Internet Energy Use (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Two British Universities will investigate how to reduce the energy consumption of the Internet, which currently consumes 3 to five percent of the world's power

The Internet and other networks use an increasing amount of power, and Leeds and Cambridge Universities have received a £5.9 million, five-year grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to look into ways to reduce this
Open Source

Submission + - Tablet version of Ubuntu to launch next year (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by nk497
nk497 writes: Tablets running Ubuntu should be on shelves by the beginning of next year. Canonical said the Light version of Ubuntu 10.10 — codenamed Maverick Meerkat — will be developed to work on tablets, alongside netbooks. Canonical is also in talks with ARM manufacturers to ensure the OS runs quickly on tablets without using too much power, and is also in talks with Pixel Qi about displays. The move puts Ubuntu in competition with Google's Android and Chrome OS, as well as Intel's Meego, Apple's iOS4 and Palm's webOS. Chris Kenyon, Canonical's vice president of OEM, admitted: "It's a crowded space with a lot of powerful players."

Submission + - Biodegradable Sugar-Powered Batteries, Coming Soon (physorg.com)

Submitted by srsguy
srsguy writes: In the past, we've seen cell phones powered by cola. Now, researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri are attempting to commercialize batteries powered purely by sugar — not from just one source, either. The team is making claims that "[d]evices could be instantly recharged by adding virtually any convenient sugar source, including plant sap". This should keep the world's sugar-fueled youth with plenty of power — up to 4 times longer on a single charge, in fact.

Submission + - Another arrested in Japan for using anonymous P2P (animenewsnetwork.com)

Submitted by
renrutal
renrutal writes: "A 43-year-old man is the second known person arrested in Japan for using Perfect Dark to share copyrighted material in its encrypted P2P network.

According to the [Kyoto-based] High-Tech Crime Task Force, the Okayama police, and the Saga police, the Osaka-based suspect uploaded about a thousand files, including anime. The suspect admitted that he thought he would not get caught because he was using Perfect Dark.

Perfect Dark is the third generation of japanese anonymous P2P network clients, developed with the intent to fix the security flaws found in its predecessors Winny and Share, in spite of also adopting a "Secure through Obscurity" closed-source model. In 2004, Winny's developer, Isamu Kaneo, was charged 1.5 million yen for assisting in copyright infringement, but he was acquited last October. Since 2008, at least 15 people were arrested in Japan suspect of uploading copyrighted material to those "secure" networks."

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