Singapore Telecommunications, or SingTel, has announced that it would be selling the iPhone in Singapore and many other markets with its associates.

The markets as of press time have been said on a press release were India, via the Bharti Group, The Philippines by Globe Telecom.

As well, rumours have been true, Optus will sell the iPhone thanks to this new deal.

This brings Vodafone and Optus having contracts to sell the iPhone, via region-wide deals. Rumours about Telstra being the third provider have been proven false as of this time, but it is still unknown as of this time.

SingTel owns 100% of Optus, but less than 50% stake on both Bharti and Globe.

Windows XP users who just upgraded to the new service pack will not be able to downgrade back to Internet Explorer 6 after that option would be impossible. This also applies to those who are running the beta version of IE8.

Jane Maliouta, deployment manager for IE8, has written on MSDN that the decision to prevent downgrading was "by design".

Those who have the Beta 1 version of IE8, you will not get SP3 in your Windows Update to dissuade users from finding themselves not able to downgrade.

Microsoft and the European Union have not had a best relationship, especially on Microsoft’s business policies. After alleging that the giant engaged in price fixing, the European Commission handed down massive fines.

The first was handed down in 2004 after losing their case with the Commission and was handed down a USD$690M. The second was handed down after an appeal and not paying the first fine and handed down a record USD$1.4 billion.

Now it looks like the Commission want more money, as it has currently two investigations against the giant.

But Microsoft is fighting back, after announcing that it will be fighting the latest fine; appealing to the European Court of First Instance (How many courts do they have?), hoping it could be reduced or dropped.

A spokesperson of the Commission, Jonathan Todd, has defended the decisions, saying that the courts upheld that Microsoft refused to comply with the ruling for 3 years.

But if that does not work, Microsoft is trying to get on the good side; with trying to create an “open” standard to help defend itself against one investigation launched, which is about Microsoft engaging in anticompetitive behaviour in the word processing market with Microsoft Office.