SMS still powering ahead in UK mobiles

For one, we still haven't got over our love affair with the text message. Revenues from SMS are up 7 per cent sequentially for the quarter ending September 2002. Meanwhile volumes showed a 37 per cent year on year increase at nearly four and a quarter billion. ...more

IBM trumpets new file transfer record

IBM is claiming a new world record in file transfer technology. Recently the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using Big Blue's new General Parallel File System software achieved a staggering read and write throughput of 1.2Gbytes per second to a single file of 1. ...more

Internet sees new Web revival

The Web is back, according to Internet monitoring company Netcraft. In its study of numbers of websites online during the last six months, it has noted phenomenal growth 'approaching the torrid growth rate of 2000'. From May to June Netcraft counted nearly 65 million active sites, an increase of 1. ...more

Ericsson launches GPRS mobile phone

There's one-button mobile access to the Internet with Ericsson's latest offering, the T65 GPRS phone. Ericsson launches GPRS mobile phone There's one-button mobile access to the Internet with Ericsson's latest offering, the T65 GPRS phone. To be available in GSM900/1800 (European) markets before the end of the year, the T65 is supposedly designed to attract "younger customers". ...more

UK PTO workshop divides lawyers and engineers over patents

The extent of the division between attorneys and software engineers over software patents was crystallised at a series of workshops run by the UK Patent Office. Delegates comprised a mix of patent attorneys and software engineers and were tasked with testing a number of patent applications against different definitions of the 'technical contribution' criteria. It is this test that determines the approval of software patents in current law and within the formative CII directive on the issue at the EU. ...more