But will Steve Jobs lose any sleep?Mobile handset giant Nokia has signalled its intent to take the fight to Apple's iPhone, after launching its first ever touch-screen handset.

No ditching of existing equipment.Tandberg has introduced room-based telepresence package that it claims will integrate with existing videoconferencing gear, so that businesses can upgrade, without ditching their existing equipment.

Joins VMware, Citrix and others.Microsoft has this week released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualisation software as it continues to chase the virtualisation market leader, VMware.

App server for the cloud.The company behind the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, has begun offering this week an OSGi-based application server that runs enterprise Java and Spring applications.

But the public are told to 'chill out'.Internet infrastructure vendors are rushing to develop patches for a set of TCP/IP security flaws, which could help hackers knock servers offline with very little effort.

War of worlds on maintenance claims.Red Hat has released Linux clustering that it claimed would undercut Microsoft's equivalent offering

Researcher tired of waiting for Apple response.An Israeli researcher, frustrated with the lack of response from Apple, has disclosed technical details about two iPhone security flaws he first uncovered more than two months ago.

German techie discovers nasty flaw.Bitmaps stored inside encrypted backup files could be vulnerable to a sophisticated 'comparison' attack, a German security researcher has discovered.

We were aware that adjusting the pensions would demand an increased need to provide information to our customers. Particularly when this would involve complex calculations like in 2008," Director Gabriele Eichhorn, Head of the Vienna bureau, explained the situation. An

There are several hurdles to any acquisition of the Nextel digital network unit, not the least of which is its poor rankings in customer service polls.

The software updates address security issues and better syncing with iPods, and include improved Genius playlists.

A document obtained by InformationWeek reveals that the state is the latest organization to shun the most current version of Microsoft's flagship operating system.

The companies announced in June their nonexclusive advertising deal, which would allow Google to run ads alongside Yahoo search results.

The software maker will offer a bundle of educational software and services for use on Portugal's low-cost Magellan laptop for students.

The decision follows detailed discussions with "various interested parties" over the last five months.

In marketing the appliance, "Windows Server on WAAS" targets companies looking to avoid a full-blown deployment of the software, which is more than is needed in most branch offices.

The chairman of the U.S. Senate's antitrust committee is recommending any deal between Google and Yahoo receive ongoing scrutiny from the Department of Justice.

Microsoft has made a deal with Portugal to put Windows XP and Office 2007 on inexpensive notebooks aimed at Portuguese primary and junior high school students.

Promises of the paperless office have been circulating ever since the first IBM clones started showing up on desks in the early 1980s. Yet we're still tied to printed documents and there's no sign that's going to change.With that in

AT&T Inc., the country's largest telecommunications company, is reorganizing to put one executive in charge of both its wireless and consumer fixed-line phone businesses.The shake-up disclosed Wednesday could make it easier for the company to hold off competition from cable