IBM brings wireless printing to the office

Wireless-enabled laptop users no longer need to plug into the office network to print documents. IBM has introduced a plug-and-print Wi-Fi adapter that enables users of notebooks, personal computers or PDAs to print documents remotely, without the need to purchase a new Wi-Fi-enabled printer or multi-function device. According to IBM, the Wireless Print Adapter plugs straight into a printer's existing RJ-45 Ethernet connection, without the need for configuring software drivers or open PCI expansion slots. ...more

Google fine tunes AdWord campaigns

Google is letting advertisers tweak their AdWord campaigns so they can run only at key times when they expect the greatest interest. The search giant has introduced what it calls ad scheduling, and advertisers can time their campaigns to run based on the time of day or day of the week. AdWords then ensures the campaigns are paused and resumed automatically. ...more

Tiscali ups the anti-BT complaints ante

Tiscali and other communications companies are to drop a complaint against BT made under the Telecommunications Act and relodge it under the more powerful Competition Act. The complaint, from Tiscali, Energis and Your Communications, claims that BT is using its monopolistic weight to unfairly penalise those communications providers that took up its Datastream broadband service by 'multiple tactics', such as cutting the prices of its preferred broadband wholesale offerings. The trio will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Freeserve, who successfully managed to force Oftel to reconsider a complaint of predatory pricing by taking the complaint to the Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal. ...more

Quark shows off QuarkXPress 7

Quark has given a first preview of QuarkXPress 7, describing it as the most significant upgrade in the history of the DTP application and promising that it will ship this year. Speaking at the TypoTechnica 2005 conference in London, Scott Wieseler, product analyst in Quark's product marketing group and Gavin Drake, UK director of marketing, said that the new version is the biggest rewrite the company has ever done, first in order to incorporate support for Unicode and OpenType and secondly to make it easier to add new features in the future versions. Support for OpenType will help to re-establish the application as a pre-eminent typographical environment and may see the end of Passport, the version of the software which provides multiple language capabilities. ...more

FBI nets Internet fraudsters

The FBI has announced that its investigation into Internet fraud, code named "Operation Cyber Loss" has resulted in the arrest of 90 individuals and companies. The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) initiated the investigation and the arrested individuals are facing a number of charges, including fraud by wire, mail fraud, money laundering and intellectual property rights violations. The extent of the frauds constitutes 56,000 victims and a combined loss of over $117 million. ...more