BenQ Mobile still seeks buyer for bankrupt German unit   02 Jan 2007 12:36 GMT
A Munich court has opened insolvency proceedings against BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG after the mobile phone maker failed to meet an end-of-the-year deadline to find a buyer.
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Alcatel-Lucent completes buy of Nortel 3G business   02 Jan 2007 12:23 GMT
Alcatel-Lucent SA has closed its acquisition of Nortel Networks Corp.'s UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) mobile infrastructure business, the companies announced Tuesday.
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Apple's new iPod could bolster music dominance (USATODAY.com)   02 Jan 2007 11:43 GMT
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - After absolving its current management team of any wrongdoing in an ongoing stock-options scandal, Apple shifts its attention to next week's Macworld conference here, and the much-speculated unveiling of an iPod with cellphone-like features.
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German court opens insolvency proceedings against BenQ Mobile (AFP)   02 Jan 2007 11:31 GMT

AFP - Insolvency proceedings have been opened against BenQ Mobile, the German mobile phone arm of Taiwanese electronics maker BenQ, a court in Munich has said.

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French send SMS surge across mobile networks on New Year's (AFP)   01 Jan 2007 22:25 GMT

AFP - French mobile phone users set a new national record for text messages overnight, as they sent New Year's wishes surging across cell networks, the major operators said.

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Technology of the Gods   01 Jan 2007 11:00 GMT
January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007.
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Security: A year of reassessment   01 Jan 2007 11:00 GMT
New products and press fascinations come and go (mobile worms, anyone?), but IT security managers will stick with what works -- until it doesn’t. A few years from now, we may look back on 2006 and 2007 as that kind of turning point, when enterprise IT security folks took a good hard look at some of the products that were mainstays of their defensive strategy and asked whether they are pulling their weight.
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Applications: SaaS breaks down the walls   01 Jan 2007 11:00 GMT
The one major exception to business as usual in the enterprise software arena for 2006 was SaaS (software as a service), which under the de facto leadership of Salesforce.com demonstrated that a hosted service can offer the kinds of capabilities once reserved for the giants of the enterprise software industry.
Source: InfoWorld