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Archive - 10 Dec 1999

Jane Wakefield: Scrooge comes out of the cold

News BT's unmetered announcement, and Psion's Microsoft battle...

Egg admits to flaw in security measures

News Error allowed access to account even after user had logged off

Intel already making 800MHz chips - report

News Breakthrough may give Intel edge over rival AMD

X-Stream to trial free Net access

News UK free ISP approaching 0800 Net access trial cautiously after troubled CallNet launch; blasts BT flat-rate offer

News Burst: X-Stream offers free Net service

News First there was CallNet; now X-Stream is jumping on the free-Internet access bandwagon with another completely free 24-hour, seven day a week Internet service.

ITC approves NTL-C&W deal

News ITC finds that proposed merger would not operate against interest of viewers by limiting the competition for pay-TV services

Jungle.com to rejoin Consumer Association scheme

News Site has agreed terms with The Consumer Association under which it can be readmitted to the Which? program

News Roundup: Microsoft v Psion on wireless Internet

News Ericsson says it remains committed to Symbian venture, but investors not so sure

Police crack down on Net child pornographers

News Two dozen addresses across the UK raided following six month police investigation

Psion hits back at Microsoft-Ericsson alliance

News Deal with Ericsson shows Microsoft has 'thrown in the towel' on Windows CE, Psion claims

Barclaycard trials voice Web banking

News Tests voice access to balance, available credit, recent transactions information

Study: Computers beat sex for some Britons

News Britons enjoy talking to their computers, while Swedes like to stroke their machines

Nuggets: Posh mice get USBed

News Get your mouse-in-a-box while it's hot

Intel demos Bluetooth products

News Demo utilises Intel's Ambler radio module and a software suite

W3C and WAP Forum team up on wireless Web specs

News Organisations will work together to incorporate WAP Forum's Wireless Markup Language (WML) into W3C's next generation Internet markup language

Web site lets tube travellers blow off steam

News Site lets commuters rant and rave to their heart's content and find similarly miserable travellers

Run an Internet search engine from your PC

News Juggernaut can serve 10 million unique Web pages running on just a Pentium II machine and Slackware Linux

Sun backs down on Blackdown

News In a breach of open-source etiquette, Sun falls in hot water by failing to credit work by the Linux Blackdown Porting Team

Virus writing: end of an era?

News Computer security specialists say the stiff penalty meted out to the Melissa creator -- years in prison and a $150,000 fine -- will cause other virus writers to think thrice before unleashing their...

Is the Web sending you subliminal ads?

News Privacy advocates petition FTC to stop Web sites from placing ads based on viewers' preferences

A Year Ago: Jobs promises smaller, cheaper Apples

News Originally published Thu, 10 Dec 1998 09:56:30 GMT

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