Previous DayEmpire-building Vitaminic swallows Peoplesound
News Vitaminic hopes that its latest acquisition will give it the power to match Napster and MP3.com
News Schmooze: Labour surges to victory on text messages
News The Conservatives spammed, Microsoft infiltrated your brain and Intel practiced karaoke...
Products through the looking glass...
Comment You hear of a new product, and it sounds good. How do you know when it's something you can buy?
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 8/6/2001 We should be used to it by now, but every so often Hollywood manages to astonish by its lack of self-awareness. There are fewer atoms of irony in its glitzy soul than there are...
European telco watchdogs plan greater unity
News Telecoms regulators including Oftel want to streamline policy, but with the least interference from Brussels. Their solution? To get on the phone
Internet World exhibits signs of dot-com deflation
News Exhibitor numbers were up this year on 2000, but potential attendees stayed in the office to keep their flailing dot-coms afloat
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment My loosely connected 'news view' on the week that was...
Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire
News In the wake of the Napster battles, ISPs are being asked to take more responsibility for subscriber actions - even cutting off service
Lonely free ISPs agree to marriage
News The last two independent ISPs offering free Internet access, NetZero and Juno Online Services will become a single company called United Online
Gameplay axes remaining staff
News The beleaguered e-tailer completes the sale of its Spanish operations to Electronics Boutique
GSM health risks won't be known for a decade
News Reassurances from the mobile industry that there is no proof that mobile phones are dangerous may be premature, warns top scientist
Via unveils world's smallest mobile chip
News It may be aimed at the low end, but Via has taken the high ground with its shift to the cutting-edge 0.13-micron manufacturing process
Privacy group shines light on Web bugs
News With Bugnosis software, consumers who value their surfing privacy may be able to scare Web bugs out of hiding
HP ups the ante in printing-press market
News Will Hewlett-Packard's Digital Press 6600 cause enough of a stir to shake up the print industry?
Intel delivers financial 'comfort'
News Intel's slowdown is part of overall US cutbacks, but also shows new strength of competition
Mobile microbrowser taps into full Web
News ThunderHawk is disruptive technology says creator Bitstream
3Com warns, discontinues cable, DSL
News Ailing network equipment makers become second firm to abandon high-speed modem business
A Year Ago: Judge rules that Microsoft must be split in two
News Judge Jackson follows DoJ recommendations closely in ordering Microsoft to be broken into two companies
Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe Edition
Review A good choice for getting started with Linux, or for developing a small network of Linux clients.
