Previous DayTechnical literacy divides a nation
News The Web threatens to divide people into two classes according to IDC's director of European Services Industry Research. And we're already beginning to see it.
News Burst: NATO forces two tier system - and Serbs are better off
News The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia could force the country to adopt satellite communications systems thereby leapfrogging their European counterparts according to IDC's director of European Services...
Update: Acer signs IBM and promises more
News Acer signed its $8bn product exchange pact with IBM as expected today, and hinted that another deal could come hot on its heels.
News Burst: Web threat divides population
News The Web threatens to divide people into two classes according to IDC's director of European Services Industry Research Puni Rajah.
Mitnick gains friends in high places
News Under the watchful eye of local police and a fly-by skywriter, supporters of imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick gathered outside federal courthouses wielding picket signs and passing out leaflets.
News Burst: Show me the money
News Forget about half-hearted efforts to test e-commerce, embrace the portal model and join the second chapter in the Internet's evolution -- if you want a share of the honey pot.
Dataquest Predicts: Biometric chips pioneer growth
News Growth in the semi-conductor market will be fuelled by emerging technologies like Biometrics according to Peter Bauer, executive vice president of sales for Infineon Technologies.
US scientists build brainy leech computer
News Forget artificial intelligence and neural networks, computers of the future could be based on little blood suckers.
Office 2000 heads for the Web
News Microsoft will use San Francisco as a launch site today to show off technology that will hook Office servers further into the Internet, a strategy also being explored by Corel.
Bristol: Microsoft aggressive, not anti-competitive
News Microsoft gave more hints of its defence strategy in the antitrust case brought by Bristol Technology, claiming Bristol was being hypocritical, mimicking Microsoft's behaviour and at the same time...
NatWest banks on Cyber commerce venture
News International bank NatWest last week dipped its toe into the e-commerce pool with the launch of Magex, a system for buying and selling online content.
S3 aims Savage graphics at portables
News S3 has announced two new chips for the portable PC market that will bring powerful 3D graphics to gamers and business users on the road.
Microsoft tips nod at Wink
News Wink Communications might not be all things to everybody in interactive TV, but Microsoft was sufficiently impressed with the company's technology to hand over £30 million in return for a...
Watchdog slams flipper format
News Warner HomeVideo, distributors of blockbuster movie Armageddon, has agreed to replace all copies of the DVD film following a BBC Watchdog programme last week complaining about the format.
Public Enemy prefers Zip to MP3
News Online record company Atomic Pop will release the latest album from rap group Public Enemy on Iomega's Zip disks, marking another departure for the recording industry from traditional ways of...
Online gambling ban advised to protect minors
News California's National Gambling Impact Study Commission will be recommending to Congress that Internet gambling be halted in the US.
Viruswatch: PrettyPark
News Anti-virus companies warned Friday that W32/PrettyPark, a new e-mail worm program with Trojan horse characteristics, poses a potentially high risk to Internet users on Windows-based systems.
Events Diary
News JUNE7-8 E-commerce Forum: Monaco, France.
