France attacks Britain over Echelon
News France points the finger at Britain for its involvement in Echelon
Merrill Lynch staff sacked over porn, say reports
News Stockbrokers Merrill Lynch gives staff the boot over email abuse
By any other name...
Comment Names convey meanings; our choice of names determines the meaning of what we say. An inappropriate name gives people the wrong idea. A rose by any name would smell as sweet -- but if you call it...
ZDNet ADSL reader poll
News Have you applied for an ADSL connection from BT? Have you got it yet?
Half all small firms will be hacked by 2003
News One in two small companies will get hacked by 2003, says a Gartner study
Microsoft bigwig slams Oracle and Sun
News The head of Microsoft Europe disses the software giant's rivals as 'devious'
Dell recalls 27,000 notebook batteries
News Batteries in some Latitude and Inspiron models are being pulled on fears they could break into flames. One incident reported so far
Sega adds DVD to Dreamcast
News In theory, throwing in a multi-region DVD player balances the differences between PS2 and Dreamcast, but will it work?
Sun: Open source for the masses
News Developers, rev your engines. Sun is jettisoning nine million lines of StarOffice code into open source on Friday
The Day Ahead: Scenes from Intel's e-business lovefest
News Is it back to the 80s with Intel and Huey Lewis and the News? Or did we catch a glimpse of the 'new, new computer industry'?
France attacks Britain over Echelon
News France points the finger at Britain for its involvement in Echelon
Jane Wakefield: A spoonful of Internet medicine
News Has the backlash against the Internet finally begun?
UPDATE: Oil price fears hit tech stocks
News Tech stocks take another bashing as Middle East crisis sparks fears over oil prices
Technological revolution causing depression
News Email, instant messaging, voicemail, faxes and text messaging are creating a 24 hour office
Taxi company hails 'robot' bookings
News An Australian taxi company has employed a voice recognition technology system to take bookings, but officials say no human staff will be made redundant as a result
Venture capitalists to tech bigwigs: Mea culpa
News Venture capitalists take some blame for the implosion of 'dot-bombs' they pushed to go public too soon
Microsoft .Net for Linux?
News An SEC filing says Corel could port .Net to Linux. And -- surprise -- Microsoft was threatening to sue Corel, not vice versa
Why Microsoft might help Linux
Comment Could it be even vaguely possible, even thinkable, that Microsoft might be about to start developing a version of Visual Basic that generates Linux code?
Scour files for bankruptcy protection
News Hopes to "recapitalise, restructure and improve its business protection"
Software as a service: More than another buzzword?
Comment The problem: Just about every software vendor, save Microsoft, claims it already offers software as a service. In an uncharacteristic show of modesty, Microsoft says that it's only on the cusp of...
Landmark ruling in email case
News Harassing email pest linked to Hotmail account after £100,000 investigation
News Burst: Oil price fears hit tech stocks
News Tech stocks take another bashing as Middle East crisis sparks fears over oil prices
A Year Ago: The future of chip design
News First published: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:01:04 GMT
Tiny MediaBook Extreme
Review Despite its 933MHz desktop CPU, the MediaBook Extreme fails to outshine current 750MHz SpeedStep notebooks.



