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Blog Wednesday 18/04/2001 Across the entire history of electronic devices, from the first one-valve wireless to the latest gigahertz laptop, one truth has remained universally acknowledged. Batteries...
BT, Intel develop 'instant messaging on steroids'
News The first fruits of the Intel/BT joint development effort is likely to be a range of next-generation instant messaging products
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No free ride for MP3Pro
News Beset with rivals wanting a piece of the action, will MP3 survive?
BT may follow Freeserve with price hike
News When broadband prices were launched a year ago the hope was they would get cheaper. Now it looks like they are getting more expensive
Portable chips from Intel?
Comment Let's get the publicity spin out of the way first: Intel has boasted about an integrated chip with phone circuits, PDA functions, and flash memory -- producing a wireless PDA that would run for a...
Sri Lankan hackers release political virus
News The Mawanella email, which carries a political payload, was built with the same virus writing toolkit used to create Kournikova
Gaming platform wars -- commence!
Comment With E3 expo going on down in LA, this week's news has been predictably gaming-related so far. Microsoft announced Xbox's ship date, price, and various add-ons, Nintendo's announced that the...
Xbox could be another UK rip-off
News Consumer Association says Microsoft should learn from Sony's mistakes and resist the temptation to charge UK consumers too much for the Xbox
The Cheese worm: A welcome helper?
News A white knight or bad code? Opinion varies
Juniper charging hard into Cisco's turf
News Networking giant Cisco is close to being eclipsed by Juniper's rising star, according to analysts
LoveLetter worm variant spams spies
News A new email worm sends out messages from a victim's PC containing a list of words designed to trigger surveillance systems such as Echelon
Intel to unveil its "Internet on a chip"
News Speedier applications and Internet capability is what Intel are aiming for with their new chip
Open-source leaders fire new salvo at Microsoft
News In an open letter to Microsoft, a group of ten open source luminaries lash back at the software giant's criticisms
Napster seeks testers for paid service
News Napster is looking for beta testers for its subscription service, due to launch this summer
Gambling predicted to drive interactive TV
News By 2005 most people will connect to the Net through their TV says research firm -- and gambling could be the killer app
AMD doubles memory capacity
News New design doubles Flash memoryAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) says it has come up with a new design that lets Flash memory chips, used in everything from MP3 players to automobiles, hold twice as...
Intel hits AMD with Tualatin chips
News Intel's Mobile Tualatin processors will compete with AMD's Athlon 4 when they ship this July
Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic
News Under a draft proposal from the European Commission, backed by police, all emails and other Internet traffic would be logged and kept for up to seven years
IBM puts Linux on TV
News Hard Hat Linux will make an appearance on PowerPC-based set-top boxes, competing with Windows, on your television
