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A US judge has ruled against a company that wanted to include obscene words in its domain name. The story begins when National A-1 Advertising of Philadelphia had 30 or so Web names rejected by Network Solutions, as they contained rude words and broke the company's decency policy. National A-1 Advertising weren't happy with this and decided to take Network Solutions to court for violating their rights to freedom of expression under the First Amendment. ...more

RealNetworks unleashes Helix DNA Server code

RealNetworks has made the source code to its Helix DNA Server available. Helix DNA Server is the core source code of RealNetworks' Helix Universal Server, the commercial media server announced in July. The DNA Server is the third component of source code released into the Helix community of developers, adding to the DNA client (player) and producer (encoder) source codes announced last year. ...more

Telecoms and IT hardware posted gains in November

Against a background of a generally flat stock market in November, telecom services and IT hardware bucked the trend and were amongst the best performers in the month. According to figures from the FTSE Group, whilst the FTSE all-share market rose by just 1 per cent, Telecommunication services which includes Vodafone, BT, mmO2, Cable & Wireless, Colt and THUS showed an overall rise of 5.79 per cent. ...more

BitTorrent swarms towards a CE future

File-swapping phenomenon BitTorrent has teamed up with US home networking kit builders to bake in its software into their devices. Asus, Planex and QNAP will include BitTorrent's download manager and client software in their various wireless routers, media servers and network attached storage (NAS) devices. BitTorrent is no longer the maverick it once was, and is cleaning up its act. ...more

City of London to go WiFi

The City of London, one of the biggest financial centres in the world, is to be provided with comprehensive wireless coverage over the entire area. The aim is to make the Square Mile the biggest wireless zone in Europe. The system is planned to launch in the next few weeks in selected parts of the City with full coverage expected over the next six months. ...more