As more businesses make use of “free” / open source software to build commercial products, friction between the communities is inevitable. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software, particularly the GNU operating system and variants (including Linux).
Last year the FSF filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco, specifically around [...]

Mitel has announced the  Mitel Series X, building on the Mitel Communications Director software. This new fixed-mobile convergence capability in their IP Communications Platform allows users to set up simultaneous ringing to multiple phone lines and enables PBX functionality from remote phones.
“Mitel’s Series X software provides location independence for employees, enabling a true ability to ‘work where you are.’ This allows [...]

So, after IBM Declines to buy Sun, Oracle has stepped in to the fray (via CNet News). Oracle President Safra Catz said in a statement:
 
 We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will [...]

So, having failed to sell it’s UK broadband business, Tiscali now appears to be in big trouble. Ernst & Young raises questions about future of Tiscali and refused to sign off the companies annual results (See Tiscali piece in the FT) and they still haven’t found a buyer after talks with British Sky Broadcasting fell through. The [...]

After Phorm’s town hall meeting last week, things seemed to be going well for the BT supplier of behavioural marketing, however the light might not be green after all:
 
The European Commission has started legal action against Britain over the online advertising technology Phorm. It follows complaints to the EC over how the behavioural advertising service was [...]