Previous DayRural broadband drive 'hit by fraud'
News Someone is submitting false entries to BT's broadband registration scheme in an attempt to get a local exchange ADSL-enabled, and the practice could be widespread
Return To Sendo
Comment Sendo spent time, money and company reputation building a Windows-based phone, and then killed it moments after launch. Nobody's saying why, but Rupert Goodwins has a few ideas.
W3C recommends online forms standard
News The online standards body has made a candidate recommendation on its preference for which forms developers use on the Internet
IT managers - logs can save you
Comment Peter Judge: What's the biggest security risk in enterprise? Open ports, easy passwords? It could just be something that is normally beneath your notice - poor logfiles.
Companies trip up on log tests
News Four out of five companies don't have good enough logfiles to keep them out of trouble, according to a security testing firm
Microsoft delays server OS plans
News While the software giant is continuing to work on it's 'Longhorn' version of Windows for the desktop, the server version has been pushed back to 2005/6
Cable & Wireless axes 3,500 jobs
News The majority of the job losses will be from outside the UK, with the bulk of cuts from America and continental Europe. Data centres could also be at risk
Hopes raised for Internet grooming ban
News The British government plans to update the laws on sexual offences, including taking account of the way that paedophiles are using the Internet to contact children
HP DeskJet 450
Review The DeskJet 450 is compact, and battery power allows you to use it in unlikely places. However, despite its good print quality, it's neither a budget printer, nor the fastest way of printing photos.
Greeting card virus brings bad tidings
News Users are getting angry about an electronic greeting card from FriendGreetings that acts like a mass-mailing virus - but a licence agreement may protect the company from prosecution
Opera aims for speed over substance
News The latest version of the Opera browser is using speed to take on Microsoft's dominance, with a rewritten version that loads pages more quickly
Q&A: Xbox Live in Europe
News GameSpot recently caught up with the European head of Xbox Live and the UK head of Xbox marketing to talk about the future of Microsoft's console in Europe
Start-up brings PC movies to TV
News A Singapore firm is to release a DVD player that can also play films encoded in the DivX, one of the most popular computer formats
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Review Although it’s not a justifiable upgrade for existing Audigy owners, Creative’s Audigy 2 is superb product for audiophiles or gamers looking for the best audio performance on the market.
SETI@home looks for user funding
News Despite recent assurances that the distributed computing project isn't running out of funds, the director of SETI@home is asking users to donate
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News A London man has been charged by a grand jury in the US with hacking into military computer systems and shutting them down
Microsoft debuts corporate IM
News News of Microsoft's licensing hikes will be able to speed around corporate IT departments as never before, thanks to MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises
Test-driving Office 11
Comment Eric Knorr offers his first take on the beta version of MS Office 11, with an eye toward the XML features that will make it an essential part of the .Net initiative.
Chips weigh heavily on environment
News A single 2-gram chip used for memory in personal computers requires at least 1.7 kilograms of fuel and chemicals, according to a new report
IBM offers SMEs 'computing on demand'
News Smaller businesses are the latest focus of IBM's computing model designed to offer computing power as it's needed
AMD adds more flash to its memory
News AMD is expanding its MirrorBit products to keep up with the call for more complex features in devices such as cell phones and PDAs
ICANN ponders new top level domains
News The body responsible for overseeing the Internet wants to expand its role and the number of domains. It just doesn't know what they should be
Ballmer: We'll meet antitrust guidelines
News In his first public remarks since the settlement in the long-running antitrust case, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer says the company will meet the guidelines set down by the court
Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier
News Intel's new Pentium 4 chip, due this week, should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. But they won't be cheap
