UK top for mobile downloads

UK music fans are Europe's biggest mobile downloaders. Twelve per cent of UK consumers play music on their mobiles, more than anywhere else on the continent, according to figures released by the UK music industry trade association, the BPI. Up to 1. ...more

Senior Microsoft engineer jumps ship to Google

A senior Microsoft engineer, responsible for the development of the .Net web services platform, has quit to join Google. Mark Lukovsky is the latest in what is becoming a steady stream of high profile engineers to make their way to Google's research labs. ...more

European anti-trust case against Microsoft falters

The judge hearing the Microsoft appeal against this year's anti-trust ruling has taken the unusual step of calling a meeting of the parties involved. The European Court of First Instance's President Bo Vesterof is said to want to discuss the implications of the withdrawal from the case by two of Microsoft's most intractable opponents, the industry trade body the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and Novell. Microsoft is appealing against a ruling by the European Commission that it acted improperly by using its monopoly of the Windows desktop operating system to force other companies from related markets in server operating systems and media players. ...more

NTL bids for Virgin Mobile

The cable television company NTL is bidding to take over Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile business in a deal thought to be worth over ?800 million. Under the terms of the deal Branson would swap his 72 per cent holding in Virgin Mobile for a 14 per cent stake in the new business. The assets of the new group would offer the trendy 'quadruple' play of telephone, broadband, TV and mobile, which is being sought by media groups across the world. ...more

Twenty-eight broadband dates

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