BT sets prices for new SDSL broadband services

BT Retail has set prices for its forthcoming SDSL broadband services, although a launch date has not yet been confirmed. The prices also have to be submitted to Ofcom for approval. The SDSL services, which will complete with similar offerings from other ISPs, will be known collectively as BT Business Broadband Advanced and will be available at 0. ...more

Sharp puts hard drive in Linux PDA

Sharp has announced that the next verison of its Linux-based Zaurus PDA will boast a 4GB hard disk drive. As such it will be the first PDA to do so, using a 1in hard disk, leading Pocket PCs and Palm-based devices that currently use solid state storage. The Zaurus SL-C3000 also boasts a fairly hefty 128MB of RAM memory for running applications and so on. ...more

Big demand for net names

dotTV has spent over $50 million buying up .tv web addresses from the remote Pacific island of Tuvalu. Since April, the American company has registered over 100,000 . ...more

Penicillin and Pentiums

Over 9,000 people heard Clinton give a speech on the opening day of Oracle's AppsWorld conference in New Orleans. Clinton used the event to call for increased spending on technological research and development. The New York Times reports him as saying: "I know there have been a few dot-coms falling on the NASDAQ for the last several months, but don't kid yourselves, the Internet is still our future. ...more

FSF to tweak GPLv3 to bust up MS Novell deal

The Free Software Foundation, non-profit group that owns rights to much of the Linux operating system, says it will seek to undermine a controversial deal between Microsoft and Novell through a new software licensing agreement to be unveiled on Wednesday. The two companies announced a business partnership in November that included a cross-patent protection agreement that some critics say implies Microsoft has legal rights to Linux, the cooperatively developed software that is gaining ground with corporate users. 'We need to make sure such deals don't make a mockery of the goals of free software,' Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, said in an interview with Reuters late on Monday. ...more