Previous DayVirgin.net cuts unmetered Internet prices
News The ISP is bucking the trend, claiming that cost savings have made cheaper prices for home users possible
PlayStation2 price cut expected
News As Microsoft and Nintendo slash the cost of their consoles, analysts see a price war on the horizon, with Sony next to cut prices
HP integration carries on in merger limbo
News While Hewlett-Packard defends itself in court and the vote count goes on, the two companies are planning for the future
Ultraportable notebooks
Buyer's Guide This group test evaluates five sub-2kg notebooks from leading vendors, and comes up with one winner.
Egg enables cheques-by-email
News Online bank Egg is spurning e-wallets and cybercash in favour of a new method of making small transactions over the Internet - and this one relies on good old email
Former auto exec takes wheel at Segway
News The ex-president of Subaru is in charge of taking the hype generated by the Segway transporter and turning it into business for the company
Online storage could risk your files
News The demise of some dot-coms has left consumers not just out of pocket, but without access to valuable files
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 19/04/2002 Sir Christopher Bland is on the wireless. Ex-chairman of the BBC, now chairman of BT, he's on Desert Island Discs, being terribly hearty and rather annoying in a smug, chummy...
NZ bank joins ranks of Linux converts
News TSB Bank is the latest big company to switch to Linux, and the ranks are swelling: according to IBM, 15 banks in central London alone are running Linux clusters
Ericsson plans job cuts after sales slump
News Falling sales have hit the mobile phone giant hard; the company is now pinning its hopes on its partnership with Sony
Unisys to expand mainframe line
News Unisys is to launch high-end machines as an extension of its ClearPath Plus line, despite competition to mainframes from Unix servers
Open source: How it could serve you better
Comment All good software starts out as a way to make a developer's life easier, according to open-source guru Eric Raymond. But that, says Larry, is why the open source community is not meeting your needs...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Rupert resists the lure of Defender as BT starts looking to insects to cure its network problems.
Klez virus passes confidential info
News The Klez.H variant is continuing to spread via email, and one antivirus vendor says it has the ability to release sensitive documents
Nintendo cuts European GameCube price
News The price war for next-generation consoles goes a step further as Nintendo lowers the European launch price for its GameCube
Compaq sells two million iPaqs
News IPaq sales still lag far behind those of Palm, but the pricier devices generate more revenue
Are your users' PDAs safe from viruses?
Feature As PDAs become more popular and functional, they will surely become the target of an increasing number of new viruses
New tool camouflages hacker programs
News Fragroute fools the signature-based recognition systems many companies use to block attacking code
If you've got the cash, Google's got the answer
News Google launches the beta site Google Answers, where live researchers answer questions on any topic for a fee. Will the search site succeed where others have failed?
Our next witness: Bill Gates
News Microsoft's chairman will make his first appearance as a witness in the antitrust trial this week. It could be a chance for him to 'save the day'
How far can cost cuts get Amazon?
News Amazon has pared its costs back, leading to its first-ever profit, but analysts say that it can't simply rely on cost-cutting
Five years ago: Sugar not sweet on Viglen sale
News Amstrad today dismissed a whispering campaign that suggests the firm will pull out of the PC market
