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



