The mobile sector will account for over half of all broadband connections by 2015. That’s according to a report from Analysis Mason. The online analysis company believe that by that point Europe will boast in excess of 148 million mobile broadband connections. The current growth-rate of 46 percent year on year will even see 3G and 4G connections becoming more prevalent than DSL.
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Earlier in the week we reported that many companies who had chosen not to update to Windows Vista were finally prepared to update to Windows 7 when it came out. In response to this softening of attitude amongst the business community, Microsoft immediately began managing expectations warning that those users who skip Vista may experience compatibility issues from upgrading straight to Windows 7. Today they have made themselves clear about exactly what was meant by that.
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Facebook is redoubling its efforts to make the world’s leading social network available on a range of mobile devices by discussing a partnership with Nokia. Nokia are the world’s biggest handset manufacturer, so any deal with them would represent a massive step into the mobile market for Facebook, maintaining, even possibly extending their current meteoric growth rate.
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Corporate law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, have slipped up by revealing exact monetary details of a legal settlement paid by Facebook to smaller social networking site, Connect U. The leak revealed that Facebook paid the princely sum of $65 million dollars to the site after they accused CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas in Facebook’s early development stages.
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It seems, if early corporate reaction is to be believed, that the unnaturally extended life of XP is set to be finally extinguished with the advent of Windows 7. The positive reaction to Windows 7’s beta tests has sparked a flurry of interest in upgrades from companies that had been clinging on to XP due to the perceived issues with Windows Vista. Microsoft is doing little to stand in the way of this interest, stating openly that it will allow direct upgrades from XP to Windows 7.
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Analysts are widely predicting a changing of the guard at the upper end of the email provider tree. Usage of Gmail, Google’s popular email service is growing at such a rate that, if it continues, the email service will overtake Windows Live Hotmail by the end of 2009.
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SAP, the biggest business software company in the world, has announced that it will be cutting 3,000 jobs whilst warning that cuts may go even further. It has also frozen the wages of the entire 51,500 person workforce.
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When an entire country wants to take you to court, you know it might be time to start re thinking some of your policies. This is essentially the situation in which Apple found themself in 2006 after their iTunes DRM (Digital Rights Management) software angered the Norweigen authorities so much that they decided to file a legal complaint.
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As anyone who has ever looked at the year-end stats for Google searches and noticed the preponderance of Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus enquiries will know, celebrities mean a lot to internet users. Finally one of the big online names has decided to properly cater to this market and it’s not the one you’d think.
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Despite the fact that the Smart Phone market is already hugely crowded, the launch of the latest addition, the Palm Pre, really is a highly anticipated event. The pre-release publicity and reviews have been almost uniformly positive and an impressive showing at an otherwise fairly boring CES has left people champing at the bit for a release date.
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It seems another company is jumping on the App Store bandwagon. Amazon, the popular online retailer, has launched an online game download store. A beta version of the store is currently available, showcasing around 600 games, of which three are available for free. The illustrious gratis titles are, Jewel Quest II, Build-a-lot, and The Scuffs, users can download these games as soon as they have installed the Amazon Games software.

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Yesterday Google released a new version of the popular Google Earth mapping service that lets users explore the ocean floor as well the continents. For the fists time users are able to see the canyons and volcanoes that exist thousands of metres below the surface of the sea.

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Another day, another story about somebody suing somebody else in the technology sector. This time it’s the turn of Intel to flex their legal muscle as they take on pithily titled insurance provider, American Guarantee and liability insurance.
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Proof that Microsoft wants Windows 7 out this year is mounting steadily. Microsoft has confirmed on their blog that it is planning to give us a release candidate of their new operating system before the final version is ready. What this basically means is there will not be a second beta of the new OS before the final version. This goes a long way to backing up the standard thinking in the industry that Windows 7 will be with us somewhere in the third quarter of 2009, early 4th at the latest.
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