Free to breathe, but not to surf

If you are one of the people who have paid ?50 for a lifetime's Internet access with breathe, you will still be wondering what is going to happen about the service that has now been axed. There has been no official breathe response - over and above the initial announcement posted on its Web site - on what reimbursements will be provided. The breathe announcement simply says that its business model for unmetered Internet access "is no longer viable". ...more

i-mode rolls into Europe

Today marks the first roll out of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Europe, courtesy of KPN Mobile, part-owned by DoCoMo. Germany is the first to enjoy an i-mode service, with the network made official today, and punters able to sign up for a handset and subscription from 8 March through KPN Mobile subsidiary E-plus. The service will launch on the high street on 16 March. ...more

PC World to offer on-the-spot credit checks for leased IT equipment

PC World will be leasing IT equipment to the SME sector, removing much of the red-tape with an on-the-spot credit check in its retail stores. By offering this 'convenience leasing' approach through its network of 120 high street stores, Dixons-owned PC World is hoping to capture business from the 3.5m SMEs in UK, many of which it claims have shied away from the lengthy process of organising equipment-leasing more suited to enterprises. ...more

Adobe updates its Stock Photos service

Adobe has released an update for its Stock Photos service. The update: adds four more stock collections, increasing the total number of images from 355,000 to over 450,000 and provides improved tuning for better search results distribution across stock photo collections. It also incudes software update improvements and bug fixes. ...more

ICANN and VeriSign sued by domain name registrants

The World Association of Domain Name Developers, an association of domain name registrants, is suing the Internet regulatory body ICANN and US domain name registry VeriSign. The suit alleges that a recently signed deal between the two organisations is anti-competitive and violates US anti-trust legislation. Last month ICANN and Verisign settled their differences over a long running dispute and agreed to drop the pending lawsuits against each other. ...more