Lindows can keep its name, court rules

A Dutch court has ruled that Linux vendor Lindows will not have to change its international business name.

Microsoft sued the company for infringing on its branding name, reports Yahoo, but the Amsterdam District Court ruled in favour of Lindows. "Not every use of the business name Lindows infringes on the Windows trademark," said Judge S.A. Rullmann in her ruling.

An earlier court ruling went against Lindows, and it was forced to rename its OS product and web site, calling it Linspire. However, it kept Lindows as its company name.

New products from messaging service providers Zinek allows Microsoft users SMS plug-in access to Outlook and an SMS sending client.

According to Zinek marketing VP Paul Kinsella, the Mobile Manager and Mobile Buddylist PC Client SMS clients will combine established communication channels into an even more effective tool.

"Many leading analysts have reported that SMS will become as mission critical to business as e-mail, but until now companies have not had access to the kinds of tools needed to integrate SMS into their businesses."

The products will provide global messaging coverage and the ability to push and receive all forms of mobile data, says Kinsella.

Clients of Sungard Availability Services will benefit from a 500-seat call centre that it has installed at its backup office in Randburg.

The AVAYA call centre was installed by Business Connexion, and contains a call management system, automatic call distribution, messaging and voice recording. It is also computer telephony integration (CTI) enabled for individual client applications integration, and fitted with 500 desktops and LCD monitors.

Business Connexion sales executive Godfrey van Wyk says it is confident that "a client company could be up and running with their essential call services within two hours of the BCP being invoked."

Macromedia has released an update for its open-source operating system in a bid to keep up with its Windows counterpart, eWeek reports.

In the Linux version of Flash Player 7, Macromedia has included support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web services and for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), said Macromedia Flash Player product manager Waleed Anbar. "Our fundamental driving force was to bring the Flash Player to as many desktops as we can."

This latest version of Flash Player was developed in partnership with Sun Microsystems.