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Archive - 06 Jun 2001

Inside Intel: Otellini proclaims end of Internet age

News Chip giant puts its hopes on PC-based devices to boost flagging sales as people stop buying PCs for the Net

Sage loses rights to US brand

News A successful injunction against Sage's US subsidiary means it will not be able to use the Sage brand in its product names from next January

Eidos faces lawsuit from Columbine parents

News Parents of those killed in the 1999 US shooting claim that games such as Doom and Final Fantasy VII are partly to blame - and want billions in compensation

BTopenworld extends reach of ADSL

News Despite its new focus on business, BTopenworld is to extend the reach of its ADSL service for both firms and homes

Online voting could be answer to electorate apathy

News Cable firm ntl finds half of employees would be more inspired by politics if they could vote from their PC screens

Help and How-To: Dealing with the MsWorld virus

Help/HowTo Virus alarm as Miss World spreads: This 'cute' Flash image not only floods your Outlook contacts with mail, but it might erase your C: drive as well

Split decision on iMac look-alikes

News The litigation never ends for Apple - this time it accused Future Power of copying its iMac design

Text messaging is on the wane, warns Logica

News The 'stellar growth rate' which Logica's mobile networking business has enjoyed in recent times is over

A fresh brew: JavaOne Developers' Confererence

News Software language to feature in server developer kits, to be used in 100 million phones and to control Lego robots

Sony slashes the price of its PlayStation2

News Changes in exchange rates across Europe mean UK consumers have been paying proportionally more for a PS2, so Sony has chopped the price of its console

Snow White: Who's been sleeping in my Inbox?

News New variant of email virus promises to have serious staying power in 2001

Radiohead 'buddy' extends a hand

News Worldwide fans of miserablist band Radiohead now have a friend in IM, in one of the first commercial uses of the medium

Smart cards get boost from Sun, Compaq

News The computing giants get behind a push to tempt shoppers to adopt microchip-equipped credit cards. Sun's providing Java, and Compaq is bundling readers with its PCs

Napster signs up record labels

News It's official. Napster announces a distribution deal with MusicNet that should see it selling - not swapping - music from three major record labels in the future

Sun: Java gets easier for Cobalt servers

News The company introduces a developer kit for its Cobalt servers that it says makes it easier to use Java software on servers that deliver Web pages

Nokia to pour Java into 100 million phones

News Nokia announces ambitious plans to sell 100 million phones using the software language by the end of 2003, increase the number of existing Java phones by a factor of more than 30

AMD faces tough fight with dual Athlons

News AMD's launches its first chipset able to handle dual Athlon processors, but the Palomino-based Duron could be the real winner

Electric shock game controller has great potential

News Multi-player combat games just got even better. Now, when you shoot your opponent, they will really feel it

Tele2 extends broadband fixed wireless service

News As conventional broadband flounders, one company is extending its fixed wireless broadband services to cities across the UK

Banks must move fast to embrace mBanking

News Banks will have to built close relationships with mobile network operators if they are going to offer consumers decent mBanking services

A Year Ago: Europe's farmers begin to embrace Internet

News Farmers are gradually taking their agricultural business out into cyberspace

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