Maps show UK fibre rollout plans 
Photos The research firm Point Topic has drawn up maps based on its predictions of UK fibre coverage by the end of 2012 [12 Nov 2009]
- UK fibre rollout? my eye! - tHeClAw
Thunderbird 3: Near-final version due next week
News Mozilla Messaging plans to issue release candidate 1 of Thunderbird 3 as soon as Monday, with the final version expected later in November [06 Nov 2009]
700 jobs to go as Ericsson abandons UK R&D
News The networking infrastructure firm will move its R&D, along with some of its global services, to countries that are more 'high-growth' [10 Nov 2009]
Mozilla storms email chaos with Raindrop
News Raindrop will aggregate multiple online communications media, according to Mozilla, and sift the stuff you want from the less important [23 Oct 2009]
Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share
News Microsoft's mobile operating system lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share over the past year, according to analysts at Gartner [13 Nov 2009]
IT managers told: Don't block social networking
News Analysts at the Gartner Symposium advised attendees that trying to lock down communications with the outside world is futile and not to be recommended [20 Oct 2009]
- No! - Tezzer
3 goes Android with Spotify-bundled Hero
News All five major UK mobile operators now offer Android handsets, after 3 announced it will bundle the HTC Hero with a Spotify Premium subscription [19 Oct 2009]
UK unaffected by Nokia recall of 14m chargers
News The handset giant has set up a charger exchange programme after several models were found to have poor build quality that creates a risk of electrical shock [10 Nov 2009]
TV spectrum to be used for mobile broadband
News The European Commission has given countries a two-year target to switch to digital TV and so free up analogue spectrum for wireless broadband [30 Oct 2009]
Mozilla takes email closer to the cloud
Analysis Mozilla Messaging, while about to release the Thunderbird 3 desktop email software, is also turning its attention to cloud computing with its Raindrop project [09 Nov 2009]
Symbian show hints at future user interface
Photos Presentations at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2009, held this week in London, suggested how the future mobile OS might look [30 Oct 2009]
Bradshaw: Courts must OK P2P disconnections
News People suspected of unlawful file-sharing will not have their broadband service cut off without a court order, culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has told a House of Commons committee [22 Oct 2009]
Nokia files patent suit against Apple over iPhones
News The Finnish handset maker is suing Apple in a US court, alleging that iPhones infringe 10 of its patents related to networking technology [22 Oct 2009]
- Apple buys Nokia - DavidA
Sign-ups begin for BT's cloud-phone Ribbit service
News Ribbit Mobile, which will let users make or answer mobile-phone calls on the internet and convert voicemails to text, will open to the public as a beta trial early next year [04 Nov 2009]
Sony Ericsson goes Android with Xperia X10
Photos The manufacturer has unveiled the Microsoft Exchange-supporting X10, its first handset to use Google's open-source mobile operating system [03 Nov 2009]
Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
News The VoIP company's founders will regain some control over the firm and eBay will be able to sell off a majority stake in Skype, after settling an intellectual property dispute [06 Nov 2009]
MPs call for one, simplified privacy law
News The All Party Parliamentary Communications Group has issued a slew of recommendations covering privacy, file-sharing, broadband speed advertising and online safety [16 Oct 2009]
European 'internet freedom' law agreed
News Lawmakers agree to protect internet users from disconnection without due process, a move that means a raft of EU telecoms reforms can pass into law [05 Nov 2009]
Mobile industry decides on LTE voice standard
News LTE, the successor to 3G, will use a technology based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework to carry voice and text messages [06 Nov 2009]
3 to throttle P2P traffic in peak periods
News From Monday, file-sharers using 3's mobile network will take second place to other users in some areas [13 Nov 2009]
Tandberg shareholders lukewarm on Cisco bid
News Only a small group of Tandberg shareholders have so far backed Cisco's bid to acquire the video-conferencing company [11 Nov 2009]
Samsung launches 'Bada' open mobile platform
News The mobile platform will allow developers to create applications for millions of Samsung mobile phones [11 Nov 2009]
More Virgin trains get on-board Wi-Fi
News Virgin Trains launches of Wi-Fi broadband services on its fleet of 21 Super Voyager Trains travelling from Euston to North Wales and Chester [06 Nov 2009]
Gov't mobile working project saved from axe
News Project Nomad, the local government scheme to support mobile and flexible working, has been protected from closure [05 Nov 2009]
- Another Quango that continues - 1000215420
Olympics digital radio system gets funding boost
News The Home Office has announced a £39m investment to increase the capability of the emergency services' Airwave system for the London 2012 Games [04 Nov 2009]
