Berners-Lee makes the Royal Society

It's official, the inventor of the Internet is a jolly good fellow. At least according to the Royal Society, which has awarded him a fellowship (among 43 others, including Sir Patrick Moore) for his work with the Internet. It's a great paragraph to anyone's biography: "in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web. ...more

CeBIT 2007: Deutsche Telekom aims for UK push

The IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, has unveiled plans for a significant push into the UK market. Speaking at Deutsche Telekom's CeBIT press conference, chief executive Lothar Pauly pointed to T-Systems' recent contract win with Centrica as evidence of his company's ambitions for the UK market. The service provider will no longer limit itself to working with German companies with an overseas presence, such as Deutsche Bank. ...more

Microsoft to reveal source code for Office

Software giant Microsoft has announced that it is to open up the source code of its flagship Office 2003 suite to more than 30 governments worldwide as part of its Government Security Program initiative. The aim, Microsoft says, is to reassure the participating governments that its code is secure and that it will work with other technology systems. The code itself remains Microsoft's intellectual property and governments that sign up to the program have to sign a non-disclosure agreement. ...more

Apple patent suggests Intel Macs to go dual-OS

Apple's latest patent application contains a brief hint that future Intel-based Macs may well be capable of running Windows alongside OS X. Points 20, 22 and 23 of the 'system and method for creating tamper-resistant code' patent describes a method running code interoperably between OS X, Windows and Linux. Almost as soon as Apple announced in June that it planned to migrate its Macs from the Power PC to Intel technology, people began speculating about whether the new machines would be able to run Windows. ...more

Microsoft rings up the purchase of VoIP specialist

Microsoft has acquired VoIP specialist Teleo for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2003, the privately held San Francisco-based company builds software that lets users click on telephone numbers displayed in software and web applications, such as Microsoft's Outlook and Internet Explorer, to make phone calls across the Internet to fixed-line and mobile phones and other computers. Teleo technologies seem destined for MSN, enhancing the voice services of MSN Messenger. ...more