AOL, Yahoo! plan to charge bulk emailers

AOL and Yahoo! plan to start charging for sending emails. The optional service is aimed at large companies such as banks, which send out large amounts of email. In return for payments, Yahoo! and AOL will guarantee that the mail will not end up in spam folders and mark the mail as legitimate. ...more

Mozilla 1.6 beta released

The Mozilla Organisation has released the latest beta of its eponymous Internet software suite. The release focuses primarily onfixing bugs in the previous alpha version, though there is one new feature - a cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism - and one restored - the Translate Page functionality is back. Mozilla 1. ...more

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Consortiums circle BT

A German investment bank, WestLB, is leading a consortium to take BT's fixed-line network off its hands. The consortium has apparently already offered ?18bn for the take-over. While BT has not yet rejected the offer, the deal is not close to being done, as it is believed that WestLB has still to finalise the make-up of the consortium. ...more

UK LinuxWorld 2003 cancelled

The first LinuxWorld Conference and Expo UK, due to take place on 3-4 September at the Birmingham NEC, has been cancelled. Despite sponsorship from the likes of Oracle, SuSE and Computer Associates, the show was having trouble gaining traction against a blizzard of Linux shows this year. At the end of June the Linux & Developer Expo ran alongside the Networks for Business show at the NEC. ...more