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For the record 30 July 
Tuesday, July 30 2002
by Sylvia Leatham


ODTR opens the way for unlicensed fixed wireless broadband | California court
forces open ICANN books 

Telecoms regulator Etain Doyle has exempted a number of wireless
short-range devices from licensing, including some for the provision of fixed
wireless access (FWA) in the 5.8GHz band. The exemption will enable the rapid
deployment of FWA services such as wireless Internet provision and will
complement existing licensed FWA services. Enhanced power levels are being
permitted to enable higher capacity and flexibility of use.





E-learning company SmartForce has announced a multi-million dollar
agreement to provide a solution covering information technology topics to the
Foreign Service Institute (FSI), the training division of the US Department of
State. The SmartForce solution, developed and implemented through FSI's School of
Applied Information Technology (SAIT), will be offered in 10 languages and made
available to 30,000 State Department personnel in over 250 countries. The
program's goal is to decrease employees' time to competency on technology-related
topics and to accelerate the agency's IT infrastructure upgrades.



Nortel Networks, the University of Ulster and re-seller FastActive
Networks have teamed up to implement an IP-based network spanning the
university's four campuses at Jordanstown, Belfast, Coleraine and Derry. Students
at each location can access video conferencing and video-lecture streaming,
saving on time and travel for both students and lecturers. The IP solution will
allow the university to converge its voice and data network onto one solution.



Novell Ireland, a provider of Internet business solutions, has appointed
re-seller DSS as its first Irish Business Expert Partner, an accreditation
within the Novell PartnerNet 2002 Programme. Under the programme, DSS will
receive additional technical and sales training, advance notice of Novell's
latest products and technologies and preferential support and back up.





Troubled US telecom WorldCom is to be delisted from the Nasdaq stock
exchange on Tuesday. Nasdaq said the ousting of the firm was due to its failure
to comply with the "listing requirement that a company must remain current in
its periodic filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission." Nasdaq
said the decision was also based on concerns related to the company's ongoing
bankruptcy proceedings.





Germany's Infineon Technologies has teamed up with AMD and
Taiwanese foundry United Microelectronic Corp to develop technology to
produce the small structures in next-generation chips. Infineon said the
development program on 65/45 nanometre manufacturing platform technologies would
take place at UMC's facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The nanometre technology will
help produce logic products on next-generation 300 millimetre wafers. The first
chips using structures made from the technology are likely to be produced in
2005, an Infineon spokesman said.







A court in Los Angeles has ordered the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet's governing body, to open its books for
inspection. Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs ruled that ICANN board members
could not be denied their right under California law to review financial records,
travel logs, legal contracts and other internal documents. ICANN board member
Karl Auerbach sued the organisation in March after being rebuffed in his request
to review records.

 





Xiam has announced that ITV Multimedia, a provider of value added
mobile services in the former Yugoslavia, is to use Xiam's mobile messaging
applications to launch SMS services to Telekom Serbia's more than 1 million
subscribers. ITV Multimedia is introducing a range of SMS-based value added
services under the name SMSPlus, including ringtones, logos, horoscopes, jokes
and weather reports. In the future, it plans to launch SMS chat and TV-related
votes and competitions. 





Camera-enabled mobile phones will outsell digital cameras by 2007, according to a
report by Strategy Analytics. The report predicts that 147 million camera
phones will be sold in 2007, while the projected worldwide sales figure for
digital cameras is 95 million. Japan and Korea are currently the world's leading
camera phone markets, and the report suggests the two countries will account for
almost 90 percent of 16 million sold by the end of the year.





Symantec has unveiled a hybrid software product that combines a firewall,
anti-virus features and an intrusion detection system in one. The product, called
Symantec Client Security, features a single update mechanism that automatically
updates virus definitions, firewall rules and intrusion detection signatures.
Gail Hamilton, executive vice president at Symantec, said so-called "blended
threats" were on the increase.





The implanting of microchips into children is being advocated in the US as a way
of preventing parents from losing their kids, according to vnunet.com. The idea
came from Applied Digital Solutions (ADS), a company that claims chips
with Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology could be used to locate
children. ADS says a wristwatch-sized device could be used to find kidnapped
children, locate young kids who wander away from parents or track teenagers who
participate in risky behaviour. The company is set to launch a prototype later
this year.