i-mode rolls into Europe

Today marks the first roll out of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Europe, courtesy of KPN Mobile, part-owned by DoCoMo. Germany is the first to enjoy an i-mode service, with the network made official today, and punters able to sign up for a handset and subscription from 8 March through KPN Mobile subsidiary E-plus. The service will launch on the high street on 16 March. ...more

Google offers AJAX kit

Google has released a set of tools designed to simplify the process of developing websites using AJAX. Google Web Toolkit is designed to take AJAX applications in written in Java code and compiles them in browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. 'AJAX has the power to make your site more compelling and more dynamic, but AJAX development is often complicated, with much of the development time spent working around browser quirks and the fragility of AJAX components,' said Bret Taylor, product manager. ...more

Red Hat Linux 7.1 released for Intel's new Itanium

Linux developer Red Hat has announced the availability of an Itanium-compatible version of Red Hat Linux 7.1. The new release will support systems running with up to 64Gb RAM and over eight Intel Itanium processors. ...more

Copyright holders welcome new generation of P2P services

It wasn't so long ago when the phrase 'peer-to-peer' (P2P) was practically a curse word in the music and movie industries. But in the past month, two new services have emerged to utilize the technology for the legal, protected distribution of content - specifically video. One of them is BitTorrent, which developed the technology that at one point was used for one-third of all P2P traffic on the Internet. ...more

Crazy Frog under investigation for duping kids into subscriptions

The UK regulator for premium rate phone lines is investigating whether the Crazy Frog ringtone duped children into signing up for a subscription plan. Icstis said that it has received more than 100 complaints that people trying to buy the ringtone inadvertently agreed to pay a ?3 per week subscription through Jamster's service provider, MBlox. The complaints said that the company's terms and conditions were hard to understand and misleading. ...more