Previous DayReport: Dell to go into handhelds
News Dell is reported to be moving into the handheld market with a communicator-style device, priced to undercut its competitors
Tablet PCs starting to take off
News Fujitsu is set to unveil a prototype tablet PC and Microsoft is likely to reveal more about its Tablet PC operating system at a trade show next week
Royalty fees threaten Net radio
News The royalty rates for online radio have been agreed - they are less than the proposed .14 cent, but some radio stations still fear they will be crippled by the cost
VeriSign backs down over phony alerts
News The registrar has agreed to stop sending false domain name expiry warnings to customers of its rivals
Microsoft trials home entertainment PC
News Early versions of 'Freestyle' have shipped to beta testers as Microsoft moves up a gear in its eHome strategy
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 20/06/2002 KPNQWest corporate anthem: All I Need Is A Miracle Rupert is off today, sampling the delights of historical -- and doubtless hysterical -- Brussels. Whatever happens, you won't...
Supercomputers go even larger
News The most powerful computers in the world just keep getting better, the list of the top 500 systems reveals
HP putting 4,000 contractors in limbo
News The merger with Compaq causes more cost cutting at HP, as contract workers face an uncertain future
Harry Potter at the mercy of pirates
News Copy protection on some new DVDs seems to have disappeared, raising questions about the film industry's anti-piracy plans
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment The decline of Marconi continues, and talking through gritted teeth could become something quite different...
Anti-spam service battles bugs
News SpamNet, the anti-spam service launched this week, is suffering from usability problems, including issues with working where a firewall is installed
Copyright: It's not just a game
News An online game aims to teach Web surfers about intellectual property and privacy issues
Emotional machines - Do we want them?
News An Australian company called Mindsystems has a revolutionary software package they claim can replicate human emotion, and the implications go beyond entertainment
Doing justice to IT projects
Comment IT projects designed to modernise the police service are hard to measure in terms of return on investment, but ROI isn't the only justification for making changes.
'Star Trek' auction beams up to eBay
News EBay will let users participate in an auction for an historic command chair from the starship Enterprise
Study: Open, closed source equally secure
News A scientific paper finds that, theoretically, neither closed-source nor open-source approaches improve software security
Secret Service probes university hackings
News Students at four US universities may have been monitored by criminal 'spyware'
HP to announce post-merger iPaqs
News The newly-merged company will reveal two new handhelds on Monday, the last to come under the Compaq brand and the first to use Intel's XScale-based processor
IBM cuts research jobs
News A sales slowdown has hit Big Blue hard, and its research division is to be scaled back to cut costs
Five years ago: CompuServe rubbishes AOL's flat-rate move
News CompuServe is unimpressed with rival AOL UK's move to flat-rate pricing, announced last week
