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Archive - 21 Jun 2001

Gateway Solo 9500xl

Review Solid enough in terms of performance and battery life, but you'd expect a few more features for the price.

PC Expo? Searching for the trends behind the tedium

Comment I've been asked to write the show "scene-setter" for PC Expo and I plan to pursue it in my usual "make them sorry and maybe they won't ask again" fashion. I'll do my best to set expectations low...

Researchers create single electron memory cells

News Coulomb blockage could hold the key to radical memory designs that could pack 100,000 times more memory than is possible today into a given space

Intel: Linux has 'no place' on desktop

News As the open source OS increasingly comes under attack by Microsoft, Intel says Linux is not suited to general-purpose PCs

When the chips are down...

Comment The time has come to look to the future -- the bright future. When will the clouds clear from our technology world? I think the signs are good for the end of 2002. And yes, I really do think that...

Atari arcade games to reappear on mobile phones

News A UK company is planning to release mobile phone versions of 12 classic video games later this year

HP to announce Linux MP3 stereo

News Hewlett-Packard's Digital Entertainment Center is the latest attempt to combine the ease-of-use of consumer electronics with the flexibility of the PC

Nokia gets on the mobile banking bandwagon

News We've started so we'll Finnish: Nokia takes on the United States with its new mobile banking software

Solaris bug gives hackers free rein

News Printer daemon contains glitch that could allow attackers to gain root-level access and execute malicious code

Trial date set for Kournikova suspect

News The Dutch authorities schedule the trial for a police court, reducing the maximum sentence from four years to six months

Gameplay site goes down

News Company Web site vanishes barely a month after the announcement that it would lay off most of its staff

The biggest security threat? Insiders

News Chief information officers fail to know their enemy, as a new survey shows they greatly underestimate the threat posed by insiders to security

Where's all the new art?

Comment The Internet is a source of many things. One of them is intense disappointment: with 400 million people connected together as never before, where's all the new art?

Vint Cerf: Launching an interplanetary Web

News The man widely regarded as the father of the Internet talks about plans for an interplanetary version, the dot-com malaise, and whether we really need Web-surfing fridges

DoCoMo's i-mode user base hits 24.6m

News Japan's mobile Internet service - tipped to appear in Europe shortly - puts WAP in the shade

States examining Microsoft behaviour

News Two of the prime movers in the antitrust case against Microsoft have 'serious concerns' about the monopolistic tendencies of Windows XP, but observers say their case is doomed

HP dents IBM supercomputer dominance

News Hewlett-Packard's Superdome is rapidly challenging IBM's dominance of the definitive list of the world's most powerful computers

IM archives raise security concerns

News With the addition of archiving features, instant messaging becomes another example of the Net's potential for taking private conversations public. Do you think someone's listening?

Network Solutions accused of privacy breach

News The company that runs the .com, .org and .net top level domains is guilty of forwarding private e-mails to others who sent in help requests, say customers

HP: First laptop with Athlon chip coming

News The PC maker will unveil its long-awaited Athlon 4 Pavilion notebook later this month, say sources. It's a vote for chip maker AMD

Kodak opens Silicon Valley office

News The film giant's venture group opens an office in San Jose, California, as it looks to tap into new digital technology companies

Crusade to light Game Boy Advance

News Got a dim view of the new Nintendo player? An Iowa State engineering student is drumming up support to persuade the company to add backlighting to the Game Boy Advance

Online cons slipping past Trading Standards

News Regulatory body demands more resources and a national coordinator to beef up its role in protecting online consumers

DrayTek Vigor2200E Broadband Router/Switch

Review Provides everything you need to share a broadband connection securely among several PCs - but beware the complex setup procedure.

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