As predicted on these pages, Vodafone has bought land-lubbing ihug. It's not such a surprise move given that Vodafone worldwide has been looking for landline partners for its cellphone business - the better to be able to offer the so-called convergence 'triple play' of voice calls, broadband data, plus on-demand music and video (the really bandwidth-hogging, cable-necessitating part of the equation (incidentally, founders Tim and Nick Wood originally sold ihug to iiNet for around $70 million. Aussie-based iiNet has been in financial strife recently).

Read Computerworld's coverage here.