Carnivore system revealed to be just part of "Dragonware"

A senior Congressman has criticised the independence and scope of the Justice Department's review of the "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system. In a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, House Majority Leader Dick Armey has cited documents that indicate Carnivore is just one of a group of monitoring systems. This group is, apparently, known to the Justice Department as ''DragonWare''. ...more

Sun's Scott McNealy steps aside

Sun's Scott McNealy has stepped aside to hand the CEO seat to Jonathan Schwartz McNealy will continue in his role of chairman of the systems giant, which he co-founded in 1982, while Schwartz is elevated from COO to CEO and retains his title of president. McNealy is now tasked with pushing market expansion and Sun's government and academic relations, heading up Sun Federal Inc., which focuses exclusively on US government business. ...more

BT trials radio broadband

BT is to trial broadband over the air as part of its effort to bring broadband access to everyone by the end of 2005. 105 triallists from four regions (Ballingry in Fife, Scotland, Pwllheli in Wales, Porthleven in Cornwall and Campsie in Northern Ireland) will test the new technology in the pilot that will last until March of next year. Pierre Danon, chief executive, BT Retail, said: 'We want to make broadband services available to everyone in the UK - whether they live in town centres or rural communities should be irrelevant. ...more

Microsoft ruffles anti-trust feathers with IE-only documents

The MHT file format 'significantly limits the practical usability' of the relevant documents, claims the US Government and the seventeen states who were part of the final settlement. Microsoft, which has been forced to publish details of its software as part of its antitrust settlement, is providing the information in a form which can only be read by Internet Explorer, according to Associated Press. The US Government and the seventeen states who were part of the final settlement have complained that the MHT file format 'significantly limits the practical usability' of the published documents as it doesn't support sufficiently useful search technologies. ...more

Motorola goes text mad!

Following on from our report about the popularity of SMS messaging, it seems that one manufacturer has listened to the consumer and designed the phone that they want. If you can think back to that news report, the survey said that people want more phones with QWERTY keyboards and bigger screens. Well lo and behold, three days later Motorola announces its new V. ...more