Oracle has unveiled the next generation of its middleware suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Fusion Middleware is Oracle's name for a variety of products - many acquired through company buyouts - that fall outside of its main database management and application product lines.

BT reckons a government plan to put a 50p tax on copper lines in order to fund fibre broadband to the country's hard to get to places can only go so far - and will probably never reach the last fifth of the UK.

The plan, unveiled last month in the government's Digital Britain report, is aimed at ensuring superfast broadband is rolled out to areas likely to be ignored by the market.

Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook.

The social network's privacy controls had reached the point where they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 different settings, according to a conference call the company held on Wednesday.

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.

The computer security industry historically borrows military defence concepts to combat digital threats, literally creating war rooms where experts follow attacks in progress on huge screens with phones ringing off the hook.

Not so at Google's Postini email security service provider unit. Instead, computerised systems monitor three billion messages per day that flow in and out of customer systems and pass through Postini's thousands of machines in datacentres around the US and in Europe before hitting the internet. The Postini system is highly automated, distributed and scalable, characteristic of all of Google's operations.