Previous DayEasynet's trigger scheme aims to close broadband divide
News Public sector demand is the key to increasing the availability of high-speed Internet services, and Easynet may have cracked how to do it
BT: Regulators hold back universal broadband
News BT wants the whole UK population to have broadband, but it says it can't do it alone
ARM and Microsoft tie up chip makers at summit
News Eight silicon vendors are joining Intel, Texas Instruments and other influential companies in supporting Microsoft's latest embedded software
Football clubs to get Wi-Fi 'by January'
News Toshiba is planning to outfit Football League clubs across Britain with wireless LAN access over the next few months
Customer churn indicates VoIP static
Analysis The voice over IP market is still a growing one, but major providers are having to work increasingly hard to keep their customers
Mini Wi-Fi chip fits in mobiles
News Texas Instruments has developed a Wi-Fi chip small enough to go inside mobile phones and handheld devices
Apple picks aluminium over titanium
News Apple's entire PowerBook range is now encased in aluminium
We're all (egg-wielding) terrorists now
Comment The recent use of the Terrorism Act to police demonstrations indicates that traffic data stored under the Act will be used for much more than just fighting terrorism
Software patents need shelter from the storm
Comment Standardisation of European software patent law may be a noble aim, but copying America is not necessarily the answer
Movies on Web 'leaked from studios'
News According to new research, the vast majority of films circulating online are preproduction copies that could have been made only by studio insiders
VeriSign condemned for domain-system changes
News People making typos or searching for nonexistent Web sites are being redirected to VeriSign's homepage, a move that is generating anger in the Internet community
Microsoft may delay response to EC
News The company has said it may be months before Microsoft allows the EC's competition decision to proceed to the next step
HP boosts China presence
News HP is to open a financial services centre in Shanghai, as part of $200m in investment planned for China
Knights of the Round Table
Comment Intel's developer forum proffers both close-mouthed executive talking heads and voluble back-room techies
Text messaging takes to the skies
News Plane passengers will soon be able to text in-flight, though from in-seat handsets rather than their own mobile phones
Orange dials up new smartphone deal
News Orange's latest 'signature phone' is from the newly reunited Palm and Handspring
New Microsoft Wi-Fi gear runs on latest standard
News The company's wireless-networking products due out at the end of September operate on the 802.11g standard
Outsourcing conference draws protests
News Unemployed IT workers picketed a conference in San Francisco to protest at the shifting of jobs offshore
Apple iMac G4 1.25GHz: a first look
Preview Apple's upgraded 15in. and 17in. iMacs offer a better specification for the same price.
Computers 'too expensive' - McNealy
News Sun's chief executive says industry pricing is heading for a correction, with technology costing ten times as much as it should
Flaws set to spawn another Blaster
News Tools exploiting a new Windows flaw have started to appear, prompting warnings of imminent virus attacks
Intel raises cache on Pentium 4
News Intel's latest Pentium chip offers an extra helping of cache, in a pre-emptive strike on AMD's release of the Athlon64 next week
Intel untangles dual-core chips
News IDF: Intel on Tuesday unveiled its first dual-core Xeon and Itanium processors, together with a raft of upcoming technologies
