1. Demand for converged services to rocket

Converged services are rising in demand with changing consumer lifestyle, where single-service telco offerings are becoming thing of the past, says analyst.


2. Satyam bullish under 'umbrella of governance'

update Rebranded Mahindra Satyam, and armed with new governance model, Indian IT services firm guns for new contract and client wins in the Asia-Pacific.


3. Silicon Valley star readies new venture capital firm

Company of Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications, has attracted lots of interest, and US$300 million. Can he deliver with his innovative approach?


4. Google sued by makers of Finally Fast

Lawsuit pending over advertisers bidding on keywords involving trademarks they don't own, while also alleging Google has unfairly manipulated search results.


5. Net neutrality gets boost from US govt

The Obama administration includes the FCC's net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.


6. British Airways won't retrofit for mobile communications

Airline is planning to launch a mobile e-mail, Web browsing and texting service on two new Airbus A318 planes this fall. But retrofitting old planes is too costly, CEO says.


7. RHEL 5.4 beta arrives

Red Hat releases a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualization based on Qumranet's KVM.


8. Mozilla's crowdsourcing mystique

For-profit companies such as Google and LinkedIn, strain to copy the Firefox Web browser maker's model of relying on volunteer developers.


9. AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch

Carrier sells more phones the first day the iPhone 3GS went on sale than it ever has, even on the two previous iPhone launch days, according to an internal memo.


10. Orange launches managed videoconferencing

Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks.


Last updated: 03 Jul 2009 06:45 PM