Wireless trains in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley, one of the US`s most wired regions, will soon cast off cables and cords on some of its trains, reports TechWeb. Commuters will connect wirelessly as a result of a partnership between rail operator Altamont Commuter Express and PointShot Wireless. Trains will connect via satellite uplink, and users via access points on each car.

Network Associates, a provider of intrusion prevention solutions, can provide "complete system and network protection" for the recently discovered Cisco IOS and Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) vulnerabilities, the company reports. These are its McAfee IntruShield, McAfee Entercept and Sniffer Network Protection Platform technologies.

Olympus America has taken the wraps off its P-10 and P-440 Digital Photo Printers, reports PC World. Both printers use dye-sublimation technology to produce photo-quality prints. Dye-sub printers use a different method of applying ink to paper that produces more continuous-tone images than inkjet printers. The P-10 will have an estimated street price of $199 and the P-440 should cost $499.

IBM will release software at the end of September to let customers sample some of the promised benefits of the utility computing vision, reports ZDNet.

The site says Big Blue has begun showing off the new product, called Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, acquired when IBM bought Think Dynamics in May. The software lets groups of servers automatically add computing power to jobs that need it, or subtracts it when demand dies down.

India`s telecommunications regulator has ordered cellular service providers to stop forcing voice mail on customers who don`t want it, reports AFP.

The regulator said unless customers confirm they want the facility, "cellular operators should discontinue the voice mail service with immediate effect. Although the service does not accrue a monthly charge, the called party has to pay charges on retrieval of these messages," it said.

Thousands of subscribers to Australian cell network Telstra suffered crossed lines and access to the wrong voicemail servers, following a major software failure on the network yesterday, reports Cellular News. The problems with the network started at 9am and were repaired at 5.15pm (local time), when the entire network was rebooted.