BT unveils converged enterprise product

BT has announced it will offer a converged comms solution for the enterprise as its BT Fusion initiative gathers momentum. BT Fusion allows a mobile phone to use a local fixed-line or mobile network for making calls depending on the environment - converging fixed line and mobile voice services. With BT's Fixed-Mobile Converged (Enterprise FMC) service, the convergence proposition will be expanded to focus communications on a converged all-IP network, with commercial pilots expected early next year. ...more

Nokia and Vodafone announce joint Java standards partnership

Nokia and Vodafone have announced a new initiative designed to simplify the development of future Java applications for mobile phones. The mobile service architecture initiative has already been given Sun's blessing as well as other operators and device manufactures such as Orange, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sun Microsystems and T-Mobile International. The initiative will create its specifications within the Java Community Process (JCP), which is the closest Java gets to an open standards body. ...more

File sharing has no impact on CD sales - research

File sharing has had a negligible effect on the decline in CD sales over the past five years, according to a detailed study by two academics, Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard University and Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas. Their statistical analysis of file sharing activity in 2002 found that contrary to music industry claims, there is no evidence that sharers would have bought CDs containing the music that they had downloaded over p2p networks. According to p2p research firm Big Champagne, there were an average of 10 million simultaneously active file sharers in 2006. ...more

FBI gets the marketing bug

FBI's infamous Internet monitoring system, Carnivore, is no more. But it hasn't ceased to exist; it's just got a new name. The surveillance tools - that are installed on a US ISP's network with federal authority - are to be called DCS1000, which is certainly nicely anonymous. ...more

Robots seize control of World Cup in Germany

There's an international football tournament going on right now in Germany. But you might not know about it. You see, it's been overshadowed somewhat by the FIFA World Cup. ...more