Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
Stories of the month - June 2009
June was a month full of Apple-related news with the launch of the latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, coming at the Mac maker's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
O2 wasted no time in sharing details of the iPhone's UK pricing - revealing the new version would be offered at a higher price than its predecessor was when it launched a year ago.
Apple also took the opportunity at WWDC to announce that it was to slash the price of the year-old iPhone 3G to a mere $99.
But despite the hype around the newest iPhone, silicon.com's CIO Jury said they feel the handset still isn't quite up to the job for business users, with the vast majority of members saying they're not planning to include the touchscreen device as one of the corporate mobile phones they offer staff.
Prior to Apple's WWDC silicon.com's guru on all things Apple, Seb Janacek, made some bold predictions about what would be unveiled and what would be the big talking points at the event.
And during the event itself, silicon.com's sister site CNET News turned detective to unearth five clues that Cupertino is working on a tablet PC.
Moving away from the Apple roadshow, BT revealed this month that it had throttled download speeds for BBC iPlayer and called for content providers to take on more of the costs for provisioning content.
Issues around content are also being tackled by the government's Digital Britain report, published in June. One of the plans laid out by the report was a 50p monthly charge on all fixed copper lines to fund the expansion of broadband.
Meanwhile, the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed that its e-crime group was in discussions to deploy PC crime 'breathalysers' which can detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs.
Turning to India, the country's outsourcing industry is using education to maintain its edge in the global recession. Find out what silicon.com's Indian correspondent, Saritha Rai, discovered when she visited Infosys's training centre in Mysore, three hours from Bangalore.
Meanwhile India outsourcer Satyam revealed that UK customers are beginning to spend money with the company again. Following revelations in January that the company's revenues had been inflated, UK businesses had been reluctant to put their hands in their pockets, according to the company's UK and Ireland boss - a situation he said is now starting to change.