Previous Day3 UK set for pre-pay 3G offering
News A pay-as-you-go plan could boost sales of 3G handsets, following a drought of devices in 2003
Open source 'pressuring Microsoft pricing'
News Competition from Linux and other open-source software appears to be helping enterprises negotiate a better deal with Microsoft, despite the company's 'no discounts' policy
Bulldog planning 20Mbps broadband
News Broadband Britain could be turned on its head later this year, if Bulldog's plan to offer a 20-megabit-per-second service comes to fruition
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
Review Notebook owners looking to boost their audio and increase their home entertainment capabilities should check out the new Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX.
Sanders to step down as AMD chairman
News W. J. "Jerry" Sanders III, who made AMD a force to be reckoned with in the chip business, is to retire and assume an honorary role
Operators signal 3G watershed
Analysis As Vodafone and T-Mobile launch 3G services in the UK, with the other operators soon to follow suit, we're likely to see a broader range of services for business
Wi-Fi gets its Spurs with soccer rollout
News Tottenham Hotspur have beaten other Premiership football teams in the race to install wireless Internet access at their stadium
Arming Linux against hackers
Help/HowTo A more secure version of Linux created by the US National Security Agency is free to download
Intel comes clean on 64-bit server chip
News IDF: Intel will release a server chip later this year that incorporates 64-bit processing power
Sun co-founder returns to fold
Q&A Andy Bechtolsheim comes back to the server marker and to designing computers
Autodesk redrafts architectural applications
News The software firm has added collaboration and organisation features to its flagship software
Web services to weave devices together
News Microsoft and Intel are supporting an effort to standardise the connections between all devices via Web services
PeopleSoft triples Indian workforce
News The software maker will hire another 1,000 people at its Bangalore centre
AMD slashes Opteron price and power
News AMD has begun shipping lower-power versions of its Opteron processor for servers
Wacom Graphire3 Studio XL
Review This graphics tablet is excellent for its primary purpose, and also has distinct ergonomic advantages as a more general input/navigation tool. It carries a hefty price tag, though.
Apple sends out iPod Mini
News Apple has started shipping the cut-down version of its digital music player, saying more than 100,000 orders have already been received
IBM claims server-speed victory over Intel
News IBM says a Unix server running its Power processors beat an Intel Itanium system in a key speed test
RIAA scales up legal attack
News Another 531 individual file-swappers are being targeted by the Recording Industry Association of America
Adobe locks down documents
News Adobe has introduced server software that restricts access to electronic documents
Oracle appeals to PeopleSoft shareholders
News A letter from Oracle's chief executive to PeopleSoft's 'true owners' instructs them to discard advice from the takeover target's management
HP Scanjet 5530
Review If you need to scan lots of photos and negatives -- and you have plenty of desktop space -- the Scanjet 5530 is a good choice.
Sun set to preview Creator
News Sun is about to launch a testing programme for its next Java development tool
Another Bagle does the rounds
News A variant of mass-mailing worm Bagle has started spreading
Code leak reveals old IE flaw
News A security hole in an older version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been uncovered after Windows source code was posted online
Lindows adopts new name for Low Countries
News The Linux seller has dropped several letters of its name so that it can resume trading in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Yahoo bids farewell to Google search
News Yahoo has relaunched its search services with its own technology, dropping Google
Apple iPod Mini
Review Apple comes through with another near-perfect MP3 player, which will be available in the UK in April.
