Microsoft Wireless Desktop
Review If wires on the desktop annoy or restrict you, this is a good solution.
Scots warned over .sc domains
News An Internet domain name registrar has come under fire for promoting the .sc domain to Scottish businesses when it really belongs to the Seychelles
3G phones become crime-fighting tools
News Police officers believe that smartphones can be used by the public to capture video footage of criminals in action
Uncertainty clouds broadband price cuts
News Oftel still hasn't decided if it will give a thumbs up to BT's ADSL price cuts, even though ISPs are embracing the change
Tech workers left out of economic recovery
News Many tech workers are feeling left out of the nascent economic recovery, but historically the job market lags behind other indicators as the nation pulls out of a recession
Yahoo! to charge for email service
News Mail forwarding, or POP3, is the latest service to have a charge introduced as part of Yahoo!'s revenue drive
Cult forces Google to remove critical links
News The Church of Scientology is using the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove links to a critical Web site from the Google search engine
EC cracks down on local-loop unbundling
News Failure to give access to local junction boxes could delay video over broadband, says the European Commission as it takes action against Ireland and four other states
The Tomb Raider returns
News Eidos has announced the latest model to be the 'real-life' Lara Croft, and revealed that Lara isn't dead after all...
Spam: Still out of control
News Junk email is increasing steadily, and businesses are faced with a choice between filtering and missing out on important messages or being bombarded with spam
Sun adds price tag to StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems has revealed its pricing strategy for StarOffice, the formerly free competitor to the Microsoft Office monolith
Two-way video: One of life's disappointments
Comment The Internet promised a great deal in terms of two-way video, but, says Rupert Goodwins, it is failing to deliver.
Phone users hang up on m-commerce
News While functions like text messaging are becoming increasingly popular, purchasing goods via mobile phones has not yet taken off
Apple upgrades iPod, shows Bluetooth
News At Macworld Expo Tokyo, Steve Jobs has unveiled a new iPod with PDA features, Apple's larget flat-panel display yet and Bluetooth software for Mac OS X
Pioneer cuts the cost of recording DVDs
News The A04 will be able to read and write to DVD-R, DVD-RW (DVD-rewritable), CD-R and CD-RW discs
Wireless gadgets lift off at CTIA
News Reporter's Notebook Inflatable phones and untied executives are some of the sights at one of the strangest telecoms conventions in years
Signs of new iPod from Apple
News Apple will introduce an expanded, snazzier revamp of its iPod music player at Macworld Expo in Tokyo this week, say sources. There'll also be a new flat-panel monitor on show
Houston, we have a merger
News Compaq shareholders voted 9-to-1 in favour of the mega-merger with Hewlett-Packard, says the Houston-based computer maker. The formal HP count is the only hurdle left
Chip-equipment orders rise slightly
News Semiconductor equipment orders creep higher in February after a slow start, according to a trade group, which says the market picture 'has brightened'
Putting too much trust in open source?
News The open-source community has long prided itself that the 'many eyes' approach will catch flaws in the code - but some are worried that the checking isn't being done
Five years ago: MS to parade IE 4.0 beta on Easter Monday
News Microsoft is planning to hatch the first 'public preview' beta of Internet Explorer 4.0 on Easter Monday



