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Archive - 19 Apr 2001

BT creeps away from consumer broadband

News BT favours business customers - at least for the time being

Games boost chip industry

News Amid sluggish sales from PC chip giants, the games business could offer a ray of hope

AMD beats targets but sees slowdown

News Intel rival is OK for the moment, but sees hard times on the horizon

Broadband revolution on hold for next five years

News US and Europe are going to remain hooked on dialup for the next five years at least

MandrakeSoft packs new Linux distribution with goodies

News Newest distribution comes with all the bells and whistles that desktop users could want

Another flat-rate ISP bites the dust

News Connect25 is the latest in a line of flat-rate ISP failures

Microsoft may dodge tech-industry bullet

News Analysts say that Microsoft could sidestep the PC slowdown that trampled other companies' earnings, but the future is unclear. We'll find out later today

£35,000 for hackers to crack Web server

News A live hacking competition that begins tomorrow in London is intended to publicise the UK's lackadaisical attitude to security

T-Online rejects chatrooms from its IM service

News ISP steers clear of the chatroom feature that has proved a controversial issue for other instant messaging providers

Bluetooth developers get new tools

News Extended Systems promises to bring Bluetooth to market more quickly

Intel adopts new Foster chip

News The latest the Pentium 4 chip designed for workstations and servers will make its debut at the NAB Conference next week

Keep thinking inside the box

Comment When a perfect technology comes along, I may be willing to let it protect me from myself. Until that happens, I'll insist that every black box has to give me a way to look inside.

News Roundup: April brings showers of job losses

News So far this month, at least 45,500 high-tech job cuts have been announced

XP Office volume customers get upgrade discount

News Those buying multiple copies will get a discount price, according to Microsoft

IBM hits mark in gloomy week for techs

News Big Blue pull off a big coup - meeting expectations in a grim tech market

Pocket PC is now a year old. Will it rule the PDA kingdom?

Comment It's happy birthday today for Microsoft's Pocket PC, which was introduced a year ago at a big event in New York.

Celebrity sites defaced by Brazilian hackers

News Prime Suspectz strike again - this time Mel Gibson, Jennifer Aniston and Denzel Washington are the targets

Palm begins hefty job cuts

News Suffering from a sharp drop in demand, the handheld maker starts doling out pink slips and finding other ways to tighten its belt

UK immune from TiVo bug

News A software bug is causing some set-top boxes to reboot repeatedly, though the company says it recently began uploading fixes

Vote-swapping site aims to defeat Tories

News Tactical voting for the UK's coming general election is moving online with the launch of a new Web site

Apple tops estimates

News Apple says healthy shipments that kept distribitors well-stocked helped the results, but the next six months don't look so rosy

HP expands server appliance push

News They're still built by Intel, but Hewlett-Packard hopes eventually to start doing more of its own design

New Pentium 4 to debut next week

News Foster, Intel's high-end processor for workstations and servers, will help capture the media market

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