Previous DayOftel forces BT to co-mingle for ADSL
News The watchdog says BT must give rival operators full access to its exchanges, potentially helping roll-out of ADSL services, but BT is putting up a fight
Linux kernel gets quick fix
News A quickly-updated Linux kernel has been issued after the earlier version was found to cause problems with some installations
Windows XP ties messaging to .Net
News Microsoft is planning to upgrade Windows Messenger on 25 October, with closer ties to HailStorm and .Net Alerts
Navy set sights on Linux programmers
News New initiative to explore open-source software use in US Naval Oceanographic Office
Nokia calls in sick with rad new phone
News The 5510 looks more like a Gameboy Advance than a mobile phone, and will make its first outing at a snowboard show - just the demographic that Nokia hopes to attract
Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News European Commission predicts that ADSL usage will peak in 2005, and promises that broadband issues will be a top priority in 2002
Web search error adds Muppet to Bin Laden cause
News A search for Osama Bin Laden on Google's new search engine returns a picture of him sat alongside Bert from Sesame Street, a fact which seems to have escaped some anti-American protesters
Symantec admits to LiveUpdate security hole
News German hackers have warned that an intruder could redirect the virus update to an illicit server of their choice, creating a major security breach
Record labels targeted in Napster suit
News The spotlight is turned on the record companies in the long-running fight over swapping music files on the Internet
HP quits CD-RW for DVD
News Hewlett-Packard is pulling out of the add-on CD-RW drive market in favour of DVD recorders
Storage giant sues former executive
News EMC continues its trend of suing former executives who join rival companies as it pursues Doron Kempel, a former executive who recently joined a startup called SANgate
US government mulls an Internet of its own
News The Bush administration wants GOVNET to be fully encrypted, and immune to worms, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other Internet hazards
Radeon graphics board gets speed boost, price cut
News As the launch of the high-end Radeon 8500 approaches, ATI is cutting the price and hiking the clock frequency in an effort to make it more attractive to buyers
The UK's new fibre provider
Comment If the government is serious about boosting broadband, why don't they use the several thousand miles of railway track they have re-acquired? Its nicely fibred up for data communication and we'd...
Why choose one wireless standard when you can have them all
Comment Bluetooth, 802.11b, and DECT may all move into your home or office in the next twelve months. Guy Kewney sees one big happy family
More job cuts ahead for Yahoo?
News Yahoo! reports a net loss of $24.1m, but still hits Wall Street targets. The company warns that gloomy revenue projections could lead to more layoffs
Microsoft backtracks on Xbox hard drive
News Upcoming console will have less storage than earlier promised, in an apparent move to cut production costs
MS blocks peephole into customer data
News A security gap in a Microsoft Web site leaves customers' confidential data exposed to viewing by anyone with a browser, before the company closes the hole
Intel slaps Via with new patent lawsuit
News The courtroom battle over chip patents heats up as Intel files a countersuit claiming that Via Technologies' C3 processor infringes on five US Intel patents
Sites aim to get around ad blockers
News Struggling dot-coms may have a weapon to protect their banner ads. MediaBeam said it's testing AdKey, which seeks to detect ad-blocking software and charge the people using it a fee to view a Web...
Five Years Ago: Apple QuickTime warps to OS/2
News Apple today announced a version of its multimedia QuickTime tool for OS/2 Warp.
