Ireland struggles with 3G licensing

Four licences available, three applications made... ...more

RSS feeds drive web news traffic

People who use RSS feeds to access online news are three times as likely to visit news websites than traditional surfers, according to figures from Nielsen//NetRatings. In addition to visiting more sites they will also go there more often. Significantly, RSS is more likely to drive traffic to less well known news sites. ...more

Microsoft releases security source code

Microsoft has said it will publish the source code for a new security system, currently titled Palladium, which will be introduced into a future version of Windows, possibly as early as 2004. The reason behind this, according to product manager Mario Juarez, is one of trust. 'We will be publishing the source code because people will need to trust this,' he said. ...more

Ericsson's hand forced to reveal big loss

And it foresees weak demand in the mobile network market for the coming year. The company yesterday reported a pre-tax loss for the third quarter of almost $550m, and was pessimistic for future conditions in 2002. The release of its results was brought forward from today after the company suspected the figures has been leaked to the media. ...more

BT Yahoo! trumps Gmail with 2GB email accounts

BT Yahoo! has announced that all its broadband and most of its dial up customers will now get 2GB of email storage, 40 times the previous 50MB limit. Secondary accounts will also grow from 10 to 100MB. Other changes to the service include better sorting of webmail: 'greenlists' to ensure any emails from the people listed in the recipient's address book will get delivered to the inbox and not to the bulk mail folder, and changes to bulk email handling. ...more