Previous DayUK still lags in broadband extensiveness
News Price cuts and progress in wireless and satellite have helped to make Britain the third most competitive broadband market in the G7, but that only tells half the story
Small problems make big trouble for next generation processors
Comment Rupert Goodwins: The chip industry thrives on making things smaller, but nothing's guaranteed.
Orange fights back in war against spam
News As an increasing number of mobile phones are used for accessing email, Orange has decided to protect 14,000 of its users from viruses and spam
BEA partners HP to fight IBM App Server
News Software maker BEA Systems got a boost in its ongoing application server battle with IBM through a bundling deal with Hewlett-Packard
National Semi closes phone-chip plant, sheds 340 jobs
News As part of its restructuring plan, National Semiconductor is closing its mobile phone chip unit, which will result in 340 job losses
Monitor hard drive health with SMARTDefender
Feature With hard drives, it is merely a question of when they will fail. Determining when a failure will occur may be difficult, but it is not impossible
Nextel may expand 'push to talk' service
News Although currently a US-only service, the 'push to talk' feature for mobile phones may be expanded through the use of satellites in the future
Administer large numbers of users with UserManagemeNT Lite
Feature Adding users to your network and administering their accounts can be a cumbersome chore, but a freeware tool called UserManagemeNT Lite can help
MPs to hold spam summit
News One of the Internet's ugliest sides will come under the glare of parliamentary scrutiny this summer
Outlook 2003 offers many new features, but it will cost you
Feature Outlook 2003 is the best version of Outlook yet, but to take advantage of all its new features, you will need to upgrade to Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003
Oasis approves Web services 'directory'
News Oasis, a Web services standards body has approved version 3 of UDDI, a technology that helps diverse applications to work with each other over a network
O2 halves the value of its UK 3G licence
News The mobile operator admits that its third-generation licences are worth nearly £6bn less than it paid for them
PC makers embrace new Intel chipset
News Intel's new chipset enables faster internal data transfers, hyper-threading processor functions and better memory access
Inventor celebrates 30 years of Ethernet
Interview On 22 May, 1973 in Xerox's research centre, Bob Metcalfe wrote a memo describing a new fangled technology called Ethernet
HP beats forecasts, but will cut jobs
News Despite improvements in its profits, Hewlett-Packard is set to cut over 1000 more jobs in the next six months
Juniper's sub-£500 'hot spot in a box'
News Network hardware maker Juniper is about to launch a Wi-Fi 'hot spot in a box' product for less than £500
Q&A: PeopleSoft CTO on Linux and enterprise software
News Rick Bergquist explains why PeopleSoft is porting its applications to Linux, and how it sees the ERP market developing
Xbox chips ordered, despite slack sales
News Microsoft has finally confirmed a purchase order for some processors used in its Xbox games console. The delay is suspected to have been due to slow sales
Six new desktops lead Sony's PC charge
News Sony is preparing to launch six new desktop PC systems in an effort to regain some lost market share
Chip sales up in 2003, forecast improves
News Improved processor sales in Q1 of this year surprised analysts, who have increased their forecasts for 2003
Seagate sets out to shrink storage
News Seagate is driving an 'industry-wide shift' to smaller storage units - aiming to replace server drives with notebook-sized ones
IBM launches Linux-based blade cluster
News The eServer Cluster 1350 is the first first prepackaged Linux-based blade cluster from IBM
