Previous DayFaster WLAN promise may obscure benefits of current products
News Suppliers rushing to offer 54Mbps wireless LANs - which cannot be used in Europe yet - may distract users from the benefits of 11Mbps systems
No. 10 Web site collapses from heavy demand
News The Downing Street Web site has been offline since it published evidence linking bin Laden to the US terrorist attacks
What value are metropolitan area networks if everyone's gone to the sticks
Comment MAN's, or metropolitian area networks will boost productivity of city based workers. But what if the workers aren't there anymore?
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 5/10/2001 To Microsoft's Soho HQ, where yours truly and a selection of other IT hacks are led into a seminar room cunningly disguised as a swimming pool, with tables made of white pebbles...
BT defends download limits
News Update: Industry experts are unimpressed by BT's plans to restrict peer-to-peer downloading on its broadband service, but the company insists it is trying to maintain service quality
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment In this week's round-up Rupert congratulates Cisco and Intel for attempting to sell us gigabit Ethernet to the desktop, contains his excitement over PocketPC 2002, and gets told why product...
News Focus: BTopenworld in the dock
News 'Watchdog' is preparing to air an investigation into BT's treatment of broadband customers, the culmination of long-running complaints
Microsoft extends deadline for license change
News Update: The software giant extends the deadline for signing up for a licensing program after backing off a provision that forced some to pay twice for software they purchased
PC makers put price tags on Athlon XP
News Resellers begin to list new AMD processor ahead of its launch on Tuesday
AOL is keeping an eye on you
News New policy allows the world's biggest online service to compile information on users
Sharp hones new Linux handheld
News Consumer Intel/Linux device enters fragmented market
BTopenworld throttles P2P applications
News The UK ISP admitted to its users over the weekend that it is imposing traffic controls on popular peer-to-peer applications
Intel plan: Use gizmos to push PCs
News Gadgets like digital cameras and audio players encourage buyers to upgrade their computers
AMD blames Intel for sales plunge
News Intel inflicts damage on its competitor with price war
Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News New technology will allow computers to handle 20GHz processors
Sun ready to show messaging software
News IPlanet software will get corporate messaging later this month
Five years ago: Lotus plans Organizer for Notes
News Lotus will finally plug the group scheduling hole in Notes with a version of its Organizer PIM that runs under the company's flagship workgroup software
AMD Athlon XP
Review A worthwhile upgrade, if only for the reduction in power consumption and resulting need for less cooling technology.
