Orange 'Anytime' browsing capped to 30MB a month

Orange has placed an incredibly stingy 30MB download cap on its so-called Monthly Anytime Browsing package. The mobile phone operator was widely congratulated when it announced the new unmetered tariffs last month, which allowed customers to surf 'without worrying about the cost' for up to ?8 per month. However, Orange has now confessed the cap on downloads is limited to just 30MB - which is hardly the data Shangri-La customers may have been expecting. ...more

Overture Launches 'Content Match' contextual ad service

Leading pay per placement company Overture Services has jumped on the contextual advertising bandwagon with Content Match. The new product places the company's search results - which have been paid for by advertisers - on relevant content-based pages of its distribution partners' Web sites. The first 'distribution partner' to roll out the new service will be MSN with others to follow. ...more

IBM gets DSP technology

IBM is to license DSP (digital signal processor) technology from a rival chipmaker - LSI Logic. The core involved is the ZSP400 DSP, together with associated software development and verification tools. DSPs - by processing digital audio and video data - play an important role within such items as cell phones, digital cameras and networking products. ...more

UK company scoops technology 'Nobel Prize'

A UK company is one of three grand prize winners of this year's EU 'Nobel prize' for ICT Transitive Corporation is the only UK company to receive an award this year. It was awarded the prize, which includes a €200,000 bounty, for its pioneering QuickTransit translator that can adapt applications for different operating systems and hardware architectures without the need for changing either binary or source code. The company claims that the resulting applications run as fast and efficiently as a native port. ...more

iPod pushes 200 per cent Apple profits leap

Apple's profits increased by 228 per cent, year-on-year, driven by a 909 per cent rise in iPod sales. The company's latest quarterly financial results - Q2 2004 - showed a profit of $46mn, compared to $14m a year ago. As a result the all-important earnings per share figure rose from $0. ...more