Ofcom won't cosy up to BT, says Hewitt

E-minister Patricia Hewitt has said that new regulator Ofcom will have less of a cosy relationship with BT than its predecessor Oftel. The new regulatory body, which covers the IT, telecommunications and broadcasting industries, will keep its distance, said Hewitt in an interview with Silicon.com. ...more

Dell leads fleet for mobile ships

Preliminary results from Gartner put Dell at the top of the charts for mobile PC shipments with a 10.6 per cent burst for the quarter, ahead of HP - down 0.4 per cent. ...more

W3C adds to its Jigsaw Web server

The Internet standards body W3C has updated Jigsaw, its reference Web server platform. Version 2.2. ...more

QuickTime 6.3 adds 3GPP support

Apple has announced QuickTime 6.3, the 'first mainstream solution to support the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard', designed to deliver a foundation for the creation, delivery and playback of rich multimedia content over wireless networks. QuickTime 6. ...more

Microsoft to give advanced warning of security alerts

Microsoft has announced that in future it intends to give three days notice of its security alerts in order the IT managers can prepare to apply the patches. Currently, security bulletins are scheduled to be released on the second Tuesday of each month. The company says that it is making the move in response to customer requests So as not to tip of the hackers who are avid readers of the security bulletins, the company says it will only be providing general information on the products affected, how many and the level of severity rather than go into the details of the vulnerability itself. ...more