GSM cellular services are 20 years old today

Nokia Siemens Networks has reminded us that the first GSM call on a commercial network was made between Finland's former prime minister Harri Holkeri and vice mayor of the city of Tampere Kaarina Suonio on1 July 1991.

AVG Technologies, a leading provider of internet and mobile security, has announced free anti-virus research for Amazon EC2 users. The preconfigured software bundled within an Amazon Machine Image is now available on the Amazon Web Services Community AMIs list, free for everyone to download and use.