Previous DayPanasonic breaks £200 DVD-RAM barrier
News The DVD Burner II is less than half the price of its predecessor, and offers a lot more features, but Panasonic faces an uphill battle to establish DVD-RAM in Europe
Scottish law firm hit by malicious email hoax
News Police and ISPs are investigating an email - set up to look like it was from a senior Scottish lawyer - that offers to 'screw the opposition to the wall'
AOL may eject CD division
News As part of its cost-cutting measures, AOL Time Warner may sell off its CD and DVD manufacturing business
Swisscom buys Megabeam
News Swisscom Eurospot, to be formed from the purchases of Megabeam and WLAN AG, will spread wireless hot spots across Europe
Friday
Blog Friday 7/3/2003If you've been paying attention -- wake up at the back there -- you'll know that location-based services are going to be huge. Stuff that tells the network the whereabouts of your...
BT outsourcing move brings strike threats
News BT has decided to go ahead with outsourcing call centres to two locations in India, but the move is looking like a good example of how not to get buy-in from employees
Xbox Linux team issues antitrust plea
News The programmers who got Linux to run on Microsoft's gaming console now want the EC's antitrust body to head off a legal response
The Week in Review: Fighting back against spam
News Two bodies stepped up to the plate in the anti-spam battle, Wi-Fi came down to the pub, and Microsoft promised to send the DLL packing
Massive ID theft nabs 55,000 student records
News The University of Texas at Austin has been hit by an attack on its database servers that accessed the records of students and staff
Sun considers Linux partnerships
News The server seller is in talks with a UnitedLinux member and other Linux companies about a partnership to provide Linux software
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro: a first look
Preview Capitalising on its market lead, ATI is hoping that this new high-power graphics card will solidify its gains over Nvidia. Prospects look good.
IT Anthems: Asera rules the world
Feature Riles the world would be more like. Two of the most disliked, and most requested anthems we've ever hosted are back!
IBM opens up on 'self-optimising' software
News Big Blue has released further details on its autonomic computing initiative - software that helps businesses use their computing resources effectively
Wireless broadband threatened by licensing plan?
News Pressure from the Ministry of Defence means that 5.8GHz probably won't be licence-exempt, which some claim will make it harder for wireless to close the digital divide
Samsung puts a microphone in your ear
News The human head's resonating properties allows the creation of a microphone that can pick up human speech from within the ear
New group to build Asian Linux
News Engineers and programmers have met in Thailand to discuss beginning to develop an open-source system for the Asia-Pacific region
US state may open doors to open source
News Cash-strapped Oregon is considering a bill that would require government agencies to consider open-source software, potentially turning up the heat on proprietary software companies such as Microsoft
US court rejects Web porn law
News A court has struck down for the second time a US law that would imprison commercial Web site operators who do not cordon off sexually explicit material from minors
Intel says first-quarter sales on track
News In its quarterly update, the company said sales of PC-related chips were beating expectations, a potentially good sign for the PC business. But flash memory sales are disappointing
SCO sues IBM over Unix, Linux
News SCO Group is accusing IBM of illegally appropriating Unix trade secrets and building them into Linux, and wants £630m. The move is a desperate one, say industry observers
