Previous DayMicrosoft may disable upgraded PCs
News Users who upgrade their PCs may find they will not work when switched back on, under the software giant's plan to use an artificial intelligence engine to deactivate illegal copies of Windows XP
Scotsman fights off multinational's domain name claim
News Owner of chess site check-mates insurance giant in domain name dispute
News Roundup: Psion's trouble-filled week
News Losses, job cuts and a major product cancellation adds up to a whole lot of bad news
HP confirms death of OpenMail
News HP moves away from desktop, leaving mail market to Microsoft and Lotus
MSN to take over WebTV
News Microsoft confirms shift of responsibility for failing WebTV service
Bad news for travel Web sites
News Travel site shares had a crash landing Thursday after Northwest and KLM news
Napster's loss could be Gnutella's gain
News Ever-popular Napster faces loss of half its audience
Crackers deface Burger King Web site
News Burger King's website tells visitors to eat at rival McDonalds instead
Sex-game death streamed in Net chatroom
News Webcam broadcasts accidental hanging in cybersession
Transmeta chief executive to step down
News Ditzel plans to focus on technology rather than management
Yahoo! strategy to avoid takeover
News Yahoo! seeks to avoid a hostile takeover as shares dip to new low
Oh Wintel, why there will never be another you
Comment People like to focus on Microsoft--especially its legal problems and constant new releases of this or that software--but the real power in computing over the past 20 years hasn't been Microsoft....
Napster could close today
News Time is running out for music-swapping company Napster, which faces the possibility of a court order effectively shutting its service down as soon as today.
Itanium shipments begin to slip
News The slow arrival of Intel's upcoming Itanium processor for high-end servers just got a little slower
Desktops: Kiss Pentium IIIs goodbye
News The Pentium III will fade out of desktops this year, an accelerated exit that could rearrange the chessboard in the processor world
Microsoft profits from death of Odin
News Demise of Psion wireless handheld device means fewer competitors for Microsoft's wireless Pocket PC
Fourteen-year-old girl raped by Net paedophile
News Another Net paedophile convictedA 45-year-old man has admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl that he met in an Internet chatroom.
Handspring VisorPhone
Review A Springboard module that makes the Visor a truly mobile information appliance.
