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Gala online gaming firm awards C&W £300,000 network contract

Online gaming firm Gala Networks Europe (GNE) has awarded Cable & Wireless a £300,000 two-year contract to manage its European gaming platform.

Mobiles and blogs help fight for freedom in Burma

Mobile phones and blogs are playing a key role in bringing the plight of the people of Burma to the attention of the wider world as events within the secretive military dictatorship are revealed via technology.

Financial firm moves SQL Server off DAS to Clariion

StoreFinancial reports faster response for its SQL Server database and has set up a new tiered storage scheme using one of EMC's Clariion disk arrays; Purdue picks BlueArc.

Eight councils sign up for Northgate mobile working system

Northgate Information Services has signed contracts worth a total of £650,000 with eight local authorities and one housing association.

Ofcom calls for new regulatory regime to govern next generation broadband

Ofcom is consulting over how next generation networks - including fibre - should be regulated, to protect supplier investments and ensure end-users can benefit from a competitive market.

Vonage loses another patent case and is fined £34.75m

Loss-making voice over IP provider Vonage has been fined by a court for a second time for infringing the technology patents of a telco.

Bassetlaw signs £90,000 deal with Northgate

Bassetlaw council has signed a £90,000 deal with Northgate Information Solutions to deliver a new combined environmental health and public safety system.

Home Office spends £2.3m on biometric scanners

The Home Office has awarded a £2.3m contract to a biometric technology provider as part of its new visa system.

Regulation drives broadband growth says analyst

Regulatory involvement is a key factor in boosting a country's broadband penetration rate, says analyst Ovum.

First open source GPL violation lawsuit filed in US

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed the first ever US lawsuit for the alleged violation of the open source GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
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