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Blog Thursday 17/05/01 Rarely have I seen an idea so breathtaking in all its aspects -- the European Commission wants to make ISPs keep all data they transfer for seven years. The practical aspects...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Rupert's review of the week that was...
EU consumer law to defy industry opposition
News Industry is overreacting to legislation that would allow consumers to rely on local laws in the event of a dispute, say legal experts
Consumers find interactive content on TV a turn off
News Less than one in ten digital TV owners use interactive content, and only half are aware that they have access to it
IBM to build Europe's biggest supercomputer
News The supercomputer, capable of performing 3.6trillion calculations per second, is due to be switched on by the end of 2002
BlackBerry maker hits rival with lawsuit
News RIM prepares to do battle over patent infringement
Picture this: New Sony PC records TV shows
News Sony Electronics unveils a Vaio PC that can receive and record television programmes on its DVD-rewritable drive
Palm's Q4 losses expected to double
News The cost of a Palm V or m100 has come down as the company tries to cope with a big drop in sales
Trojan Horse defrauds online shoppers
News A Trojan Horse, disguised as a program that pays people for viewing adverts, is in fact scanning their systems for e-wallet passwords
Labour u-turns on broadband promises
News Despite promising to boost Broadband Britain, the Labour Party barely makes a mention of the issue in its election manifesto
Consumer GPRS: right here, right now, quite slow
News BT Cellnet rolls out the UK's first always-on mobile phone service for consumers -- but it won't be quite as fast as the hype suggested
Transmeta completes Japanese invasion
News The US might be cautious, but Japan welcomes Transmeta with open arms
RealNetworks unveils Napster-like service
News RealNetworks is building a subscription-based file swapping service in league with the big music labels. But as expected, there are many limitations.
Intel touts month-long battery life for mobiles
News Intel plans to integrate flash memory, logic circuits and analogue processors to speed up mobile phones and extend battery lives
Intel finds role for Itanium in telecoms
News Later this year Intel will ramp up its efforts to move into the RISC space with Itanium based servers targeted at the telecoms market
Porn fills police educational Web site
News Russian porn baron takes control of children's Web site
A Year Ago: Red Hat releases 64-bit Itanium Linux
News This first alpha public code release of a full 64-bit Linux gives software developers the goods for some serious Itanium development
