Laura Rohde

Hungarian mobile operator Westel Mobile Company Ltd. on Thursday launched what it called the first full-fledged commercial MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phones.

IT security breaches cost U.K. businesses billions of pounds last year, with 44 per cent of U.K. companies reporting at least one "malicious" security breach in the past year, according to a study published Tuesday by the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Microsoft Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. have combined their certification programs for service providers, the companies announced Tuesday.

The Federation Against Software Theft Ltd. relies on the kindness of strangers in its effort to short-circuit pirates selling illegal software over the Internet, so in its effort to encourage the reporting of such pirating, the organization wants to make whistle-blowing as simple as the push of a button.

Motorola and Siemens have formed an alliance for the development of third-generation mobile phones, the companies announced on April 15.

In an effort to streamline its marketing efforts, Sun Microsystems Inc. has re-branded its product lines iPlanet, Forte, StarOffice and Chili!Soft, bringing them all under the Sun Open Net Environment

In its continued efforts to cut costs, British Telecommunications PLC (BT) will close 53 of its call centres and eliminate 2,200 jobs, a company spokesman said March 26.

After the device has spent just five months on the U.K. market and one month in Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland, European corporate users are beginning to warm up to the BlackBerry mobile e-mail service.