From the BBC:

A UK village which raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver has launched its network.

From DailyTech

Palm reportedly has 1.5 million unsold Palm Pre and Pixi units. It has halted sales, a sign of the company's deep problems.  (Source: Palm via VentureBeat)
Bad news continues for veteran mobile device maker

Palm, maker of the Pre and Pixi smartphones, is facing desperate times.

From TechRadar:

A new report, 'Building a Digital Economy', which claims that web piracy will lead to the loss of 1.2 million jobs, has been rubbished by the UK Pirate Party.

From Computer World

Apple tries to divert attention from patent dispute with antitrust charges, Nokia argues in federal court

Nokia last week asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's antitrust claims, saying the iPhone maker indulged in "legal alchemy" when it tried to divert attention from its "free-riding" of Nokia's intellectual property.

From InformationWeek

The multi-year, $243 million project is part of a larger IT transformation effort, and could spark military-wide e-mail consolidation.

The Army plans to migrate almost 250,000 users currently using numerous, separate e-mail systems onto a single enterprise messaging and collaboration managed service over the next two years, according to new procurement documents released this week.