Previous DayBertelsmann plans Napster takeover
News Reports suggest the German giant could be prepared to spend up to £21m to buy the legal profession's favourite music-swapping service
News Schmooze: Gigahertz gigabattle
News AMD and Intel socked it out, Microsoft and Unisys crashed, and Kazaa skulked
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 5/04/2002 So, Kazaa and Morpheus are both caught out, Kazaa for including a secret distributed processing system on their peer-to-peer file sharing system, and Morpheus for secretly...
Holographic DVD adds new dimension to storage
News InPhase Technologies will be showing off a holographic video recorder next week with a new type of 3D storage that can hold 20 movies on a single disc
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Corporate Anthems take over the Web, while Morpheus and Kazaa get rumbled and chip-based tracking gets closer...
Mandrake defends user club
News The Linux distributor argues that its club shouldn't be seen as a charity system, but as a revenue model supplementing traditional packaged software and services
Celine Dion disc could crash European PCs
News Sony is releasing a copy-protected version of Celine Dion's latest album in Europe, using technology that won't allow it to be played on computers
Apple slices off a small number of jobs
News Despite the layoffs the company's total number of employees has grown in the past year
What to expect during an XP migration
Feature Migrating client PCs to Windows XP this year will likely take longer, and cost more, than you'd expect.
Understanding the Win2K implementation of IPSec
Feature One of the many exciting new features introduced in Windows 2000, and perhaps one of the better ones, is support for IPSec
We own Windows trademark - Microsoft
News Having been told by a court in the US that it has no rights to the Windows trademark, Microsoft is fighting back
Public should benefit from e-government savings
News A report by the National Audit Office recommends that passports and driving licences should be cheaper once they are available online
IBM printing unit hoping for MAGIC
News Big Blue has invested in Aprion Digital, which sells components for digital inkjet printers
Qualcomm owns up to faulty chips
News A small percentage of chips supplied for use in mobile phones were faulty, confirmed Qualcomm.
Microsoft expected to stay with Mac
News Although the two companies are not expected to sign another formal contract, Microsoft looks likely to continue developing for the Mac
DivX plots course to block pirates
News DivX continues to move away from its bootleg past with work on a digital watermark system to protect video and audio
Is your email watching you?
News While cookies are well known as data gathering tools on the Web, consumers may be unaware of the amount of monitoring undertaken via email
Poor little rich execs
Comment Or how to nab hard cash in hard times. High-tech fat cats have shown enviable skill at making sure they get theirs - despite ditching salaries and bonuses.
Microsoft preps content locks for devices
News New software will extend tighter copy protection to portable media players, in a move to ease the music industry's piracy fears
Brilliant: Nothing to worry about
News Q&A: Brilliant's Kevin Bermeister has a lot of explaining to do to repair damage done to his impressive P2P service, which piggybacked secretly on Kazaa's file-trading software
Handhelds to get leg up from RIM designs
News Other manufacturers will be able to use Research in Motion's designs in handheld products
AOL buddies up to increase IM wingspan
News Web sites could have embedded instant messaging capability, widening the possibilities for making contact on the Web
Five years ago: IE 4.0 up for download everywhere... except MS site
News Microsoft's comedy of errors over the release of the Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 'Platform Preview' continues
DVD Workshop
Review This is a very useful and well laid-out DVD authoring tool that will suit advanced users, but most consumers will find it too pricey to justify.
