LineOne and SurfTime - your questions answered

This afternoon LineOne announced the details of its new Internet service. Available from the 14th September, LineOne SurfTime will cost ?9.99 per month, with subscribers able to access the Internet for 1p per minute during weekdays and for 'free' (unmetered) at weekends and in the evenings. ...more

Map your network

Neon Software has announced LANsurveyor 7.0, a tool for mapping network configurations and monitoring data usage. LANsurveyor enables system administrators to map, manage and report on network configurations and track and manage software deployment. ...more

Nokia backs mobile wallet plan

Nokia, the world's biggest handset maker, and mobile telecoms carriers have agreed on a global initiative to turn cell phones into wallets, a wireless telecoms interest group said on Wednesday. Consumers will be able to use a phone as a wallet or as an access card simply by waving it over a wireless reader - and in some cases punching a PIN number into the phone - similar to how travellers in Tokyo and London access public transport. 'The phone becomes a wallet, after that you can pay with it just like you pay with your bank cards,' Kai Oistamo, head of Nokia's main cell phones unit, told Reuters. ...more

EU threatens to get tough over roaming charges

Don't go a-roaming in Slovenia. It's not the rousing chorus of a sea shanty, but rather the message from the European Commission to T-Mobile customers in the UK. According to its updated website highlighting extortionate fees charged by European operators to subscribers when abroad, T-Mobile users on prepaid tariffs pay ?7 for the privilege of making or receiving a four-minute call to or from the UK. ...more

EMI withdraws from DRM-free downloading talks

EMI has withdrawn from talks about the possibility of selling DRM-free music downloads, after online store operators baulked at the advance payments that the record company was demanding, according to Bloomberg. The business news service says that EMI was asking for the payment to compensate it for the 'risk' of releasing unrestricted MP3s. It claims that operators including Apple, Microsoft and Real Networks had countered with a lower offer, but this was rejected. ...more