Nvidia hits back in Intel patent suit
Nvidia has filed a countersuit over a cross-licensing spat with Intel. Intel first filed suit against Nvidia last month over the cross-licensing agreement the two companies had agreed to in 2004. Nvidia is stepping up its resistance to Intel by filing the countersuit and seeking to bring an end to Intel's access to its patent portfolio.
VNUnet

Faster Payments too slow: Consumers lose £38m
Almost a year after its launch, consumers are still not getting the benefit of the Faster Payments Service, according to the Office of Fair Trading - and could be losing millions as a result. On one day in March, only 69 per cent of payments that should be made through FPS were, the OFT found, and it's expected to be June before the figure hits 100 per cent. As a result, consumers have lost between £38m and £82m
Silicon

Voicemail management with me2me
me2me announced its new voicemail service. me2me's voicemail service prompts callers to specify keywords when leaving messages to indicate the content material. These keywords will then be delivered to the recipient via an SMS along with the caller's details and time and date of the message. Users will then be able to access that specific voicemail when they dial into their account.
Mobile Choice

42% of UK unhappy with broadband service
A new survey released today by uSwitch, has revealed more than 40% of the UK population that has a broadband connection, were unhappy with it. The three companies that came out worse in the survey were AOL, Orange and BT - which hold a combined total of half of the market.
TechRadar

Europe to cut mobile roaming rates again
The European Parliament and the 27 Member States of the European Union have come to an agreement that will soon result in another set of reduction in EU mobile roaming rates. The working draft of the new regime calls for price caps on voice roaming to be extended until 2012 and for roaming voice calls to continue to brought down in stages.
Telecom TV

Google jobs cuts hit sales & marketing arm
Google has announced that it plans to make 200 people from their sales and marketing group redundant, according to their official blog.  These come just two weeks after Tim Armstrong, head of North and Latin American advertising sales and operations left the company to take up the position of CEO of AOL.
PC Advisor

Apple developers event set for June
Apple have scheduled their annual developers conference from 8-12 June in San Francisco.  The focus of the event will be around the new iPhone 3.0 software, plus the forthcoming operating system for Mac computers, Snow Leopard.  It is unconfirmed if Steve Jobs will be attending.
Yahoo News

Vodafone UK launches full Twitter SMS service
Vodafone and Twitter will partner to offer a full SMS service across the UK, enabling users to receive messages on their mobile phones for free.  Other networks will be under pressure to follow Vodafone in this move in the near future.
T3