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Symbian Foundation launch: What members said

Representatives of the major mobile-phone manufacturers joined mobile-operating-system vendors and even operators on Tuesday to announce the Symbian Foundation. The Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  24 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Motorola, Inc.,  Sony

Firefox 3 reaches six percent market share

The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, acheiving a final tally of 8,290,545 downloads of the new browser, and reaching a market share that peaked at over six percent. Mozilla was aiming to set a ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  19 Jun 2008

O2 releases iPhone 3G pricing for UK

O2, the operator with the exclusive UK distribution deal for the iPhone, has released tariff information for Apple's handset. O2 said it will be launching the iPhone 3G in the UK, as expected, on 11 July, with an increased focus on business ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  10 Jun 2008

Unveiled: The 3G iPhone

Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited 3G iPhone at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday with prices starting at $199 for the 8GB storage model. This is half the price of the original iPhone (which started out at $599). ...

From MATT LONEY, Silicon.com,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Steve Jobs

Quad-core Xeon laptop gets 1.5TB storage

The upgrade also includes an Nvidia 9800GTX graphics card with 1GB of RAM. The company plans a further revamp later this year, with a 3TB model made possible by doubling the number of hard drives to six, said Eurocom president Marc Bialic on Tuesday. ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  14 May 2008
Related Topics: Intel

MySQL co-founder clarifies closed-source strategy

Clarifying reports that emerged from the MySQL conference in Florida last week, MySQL co-founder David Axmark took to the stage in London to talk about the future of the database now that it is owned by Sun, in front of a large audience of several ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  25 Apr 2008

Trampoline bounces into enterprise social computing

UK social-networking start-up Trampoline Systems has announced the launch of its enterprise social-computing software, which seeks to help workers find and track others in their organisation with specific knowledge. The software, Sonar Dashboard, ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  23 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Facebook Inc.

Media lobbying 'watered down' data-misuse laws

It will take another data scandal before tougher sentences are imposed for data misuse, according to the information commissioner.  Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London on Tuesday, information commissioner Richard Thomas used his ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  23 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Richard Thomas

ICO: Data-protection spot checks due this year

Companies in the UK will face spot checks on their compliance with data-protection law this year, with the Information Commissioner's Office almost certainly relying on independent contractors to carry out the checks. Speaking at the Infosecurity ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  22 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Richard Thomas,  ICO, Inc.

Gaps found in Microsoft Exchange API documentation

Brian Joseph, chief executive of Zarafa — which makes an email server that is compatible with Outlook, having ported, as he put it, "all the Exchange features to the Linux platform with full MAPI [messaging application programming ...

From MATT LONEY, ZDNet UK,  10 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

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