Oftel issues PASS notes

Whether at home or in business, finding the best telecoms supplier these days can be a nightmare as customers try to juggle the various tariffs against each other. Oftel has long recognised the problem. Previously it has addressed it with its own phonebills website. ...more

Sun releases developer tools for Sun ONE

Sun has announced the release of its Sun ONE Studio 8, Compiler Collection (formerly known as the Forte Compiler Collection). This is for the development of Solaris-based applications that can run on SPARC or x86 platforms. The Compiler Collection covers the C, C++, and Fortran programming languages. ...more

Uruguay uses Shock tactics to inspire youth vote

Uruguay is turning to computer games to encourage the younger vote in elections. Games have already been used around the world for a variety of purposes, ranging from improving literacy among children to recruiting adolescents for the army. Now it is being used to boost voter turnout. ...more

SCO investor gets cold feet

BayStar Capital is looking to get its money out of SCO and has asked it to redeem its 20,000 shares in view of alleged breaches of the exchange agreement - SCO says it doesn't think it's in breach of agreement. The company made $20mn on a $50mn investment in the Unix company back in October last year, along with the Royal Bank of Canada. BayStar says SCO - which claims ownership of the Unix operating system - is in breach of certain terms of the agreement and wants to cash in its 20,000 shares, in a letter sent last Thursday. ...more

Nokia mobiles to be SD card capable

Nokia is adding Secure Digital (SD) memory card capabilities to its range of mobile phones. It already uses MultiMediaCards (MMC) to add in games and third party software on its phones. The stamp-sized SD cards are already widely in use in a range of high tech kit - from phones, PDAs and cameras, to printers that can print pictures stored on such cards directly, without the need for a computer. ...more