Previous DayBroadband fixed wireless auction flops
News Three months on, and not a bidder in sight. Is the 28GHz auction doomed to failure?
Yopy survives death rumours
News Despite offhand comments by Samsung that the Linux PDA has been cancelled, Yopy lives, according to its developer
Scottish council pays up for Microsoft licence breach
News Clackmannanshire Council was forced to pay up after being found to be in breach of its Microsoft Select licensing agreement
News Schmooze: Lamp-like iGadget rings in the new year
News Jobs lit up the new iMac, Gates drove us to despair and the DeCSS hacker got hacked
BT broadcasting plans get City thumbs-down
News Financial markets feel that attempting to emulate BSkyB could distract BT from the serious job of generating cash
NForce chipset drops graphics
News A new version of Nvidia's nForce chipset strips out the integrated graphics for a more cost-effective motherboard option
DVD cracker indicted for DeCSS program
News The indictment marks the first time Norwegain law has been used to pursue someone for breaking into material he already owns
UK to miss EU e-commerce deadline
News Only five EU countries are set to meet the 17 January deadline for implementation of the E-Commerce Directive. The UK is not one of them
Ultra-cheap Linux portable targets developing nations
News The Simputer is slightly larger than a Palm, but runs on the Linux operating system stored in its 32MB of ROM memory
Alcoholics Anonymous not awarded .org site
News The organisation has lost its battle to take control of AlcoholicsAnonymous.org domain name
InterTrust to protect tunes on Sanyo device
News Sanyo has signed up InterTrust to copy-protect songs on a portable music device
MS aims for the heart of your home
Comment Microsoft wants to make your PC the hub of your digital home - David Coursey sets some benchmarks for the process
CES: DVD formats face off
News Two groups are striving to make their rewritable DVD format the standard, as prices finally come within reach of consumers
IBM tops US patent list again
News Big Blue maintains its position at the top of the US patent list for the ninth year running
Five years ago: Toshiba mulls UK release for world's smallest PC
News Toshiba is mulling the UK introduction of what has been billed as the smallest Windows 95 PC in the world
SteadyHand
Review Although it's not perfect, DynaPel's SteadyHand is an inexpensive and extremely useful addition to your digital video editing suite.
