Previous DayHusband-seeking dot-com exec ditched by eBay
News Kay Hammond had hoped to pull a rich businessman, but instead she's been pulled off eBay's auction service
Artificial intelligence gets ready to party
News A San Diego company has created AI software that can assign gender to faces and pick voices out of a noisy babble. And it could have serious applications too
Via claims victory in Intel suit
News One chipset lawsuit is settled between the rival chipmakers, but many others continue
Dot-com boss on offer at eBay
News A Birmingham woman is offering herself for marriage on eBay, and promises to tie the knot with the highest bidder over £250,000
Can IBM's Regatta take on two rivals?
News IBM's new server will have to take on Hewlett-Packard and Sun in the Unix market, but Big Blue is confident it can rise to the challenge
Microsoft weeds out Office XP bugs
News New downloads fix vulnerabilities in Word, Excel and PowerPoint and prevent remote manipulation of data by hackers
Bin Laden tape draws Net viewers
News A video that allegedly proves Osama bin Laden's involvement in the attacks of 11 September is being shown widely on the Web
ECMA ratifies C# as standard
News The ECMA standards group has endorsed Microsoft's C# programming language as well as its Common Language Infrastructure
Sweet-talking worm lowers defences
Help/HowTo Shunning sex references, a new Internet virus named Gokar uses poetically cryptic email messages to intrigue potential victims. Once you're hooked, it'll disable your antivirus protection
Sun sets deadline for StarOffice
News No more feedback, please. To lay the ground for the final release of StarOffice 6, Sun will halt downloads of the beta version on 31 December
Microsoft gets backing for .Net tools
News The European Computer Manufacturers Association has ratified Microsoft's C# programming language
