Londoners to benefit from wireless city next year

Westminster City Council has been given the green light for becoming a wireless city, following the conclusion of successful trials of the technology dating back to early 2003. Work will begin by the end of the year, initially focusing on the central business and government area of the city, covering a square mile in and around the West End. Wireless connectivity will then be expanded, during a 12-18 month period, across the rest of Westminster, including residential areas, with the aim of transforming council services and reducing costs. ...more

BT quietly launches GPRS

BT Cellnet has launched its consumer GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) service with handsets from Motorola. GPRS is the mid-point between GSM phones and the new, high-speed 3G phones due next year. Although GPRS won't allow futuristic applications such as wireless video, it will speed up the mobile Internet and make using text-based systems like Wap a lot faster. ...more

Netscape's eighth incarnation set to offer strong competition

A little over two weeks since delaying its release, the Netscape team have unpacked the first public beta of Netscape 8. The browser component should certainly be much improved on Netscape 7 as it is now based on Firefox 1.0. ...more

Nokia goes button crazy

Nokia's newly launched 5510 looks like no other mobile phone on the market, with a full keyboard either side of a largish screen. An obvious ploy to get people SMS messaging on a full time basis it may well be, particularly as Nokia is looking to roll out its multimedia messaging service. But the handset also packs a digital music player that supports AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) and MP3 formats, backed up by 64Mb of memory. ...more

New OS X security flaw identified

A new security flaw in Mac OS X has been identified, in which a series of 'seemingly innocuous' default settings can cause an affected machine to trust a malicious machine on a network for user, group, and volume mounting settings. According to www.carrel. ...more