Ericsson launches GPRS mobile phone

There's one-button mobile access to the Internet with Ericsson's latest offering, the T65 GPRS phone. Ericsson launches GPRS mobile phone There's one-button mobile access to the Internet with Ericsson's latest offering, the T65 GPRS phone. To be available in GSM900/1800 (European) markets before the end of the year, the T65 is supposedly designed to attract "younger customers". ...more

AOL's refusal to unhand users hobbles sell off plans

AOL's efforts to sell off its UK business has run into difficulties, because the ISP insists on retaining some contact with its 2.5 million users. The Time Warner-owned company is prepared to hand over the less lucrative Internet access side of the business, as long as the buyer continues to direct users to the AOL portal website. ...more

Sony increases Memory Stick

At the moment, Sony's proprietary storage device, the Memory Stick, only comes in a maximum flavour of 128Mb. But with digital devices requiring more free memory, Sony has announced that it is to expand the range. Next year, the company is to launch 256Mb and 512Mb versions of the Memory Stick with a 1Gb model appearing in 2003. ...more

RIM staves off shutdown order

The three million Blackberry users in the United States can continue using their devices a judge said on Friday. It had been feared that US District Judge James R. Spencer would order Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion to cease all operations in the US, following the failure to have its appeal heard by the US Supreme Court. ...more

Tech giants club together to fight child exploitation

Tech giants have clubbed together with the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to form a Technology Coalition to combat child exploitation. AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online will work with the NCMEC to build tools for law enforcement agencies, use their expertise and technology to create solutions to detect and prevent the distribution of child porn, and share information and carry out research into the methods used by those exploiting children in this way. A conference to initially organise the coalition will be held next month and funding is kicked off with the members scrabbling around the backs of their sofas to pool just $1m to the effort. ...more