Previous DayNews Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux gobbles Microsoft
News Gates reverted to video-game metaphors, techies revolted, and the truth about the e-commerce minister...
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Tuesday 19/06/2001 Remember the Web? It was going to make us all golden heroes, sharing information around the world free of interference . Then the squalid toad of Commerce came along and...
Sky to axe .tv tech news channel
News Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV is to close the UK's only technology-specific television news channel, according to sources within the company
Freeserve customer gets slapped with £500 bill
News Leading ISP allows one customer to run up a £500 bill because he wasn't aware that he needed to use a special six-digit code
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Comment Whether you're catching up or recapping on the week you're in the right place.
Mobiles to push PCs aside at TechX
News Even the name is changed. Reflecting the current PC slump, mobile devices will take centerestage at this year's TechX.
New global treaty could pose threat to the Net
News A treaty to govern the Internet is being written but critics contend that the proposed rules will endanger free speech and turn ISPs into cybercops
Orange to launch consumer GPRS this autumn
News The UK mobile network operator is playing catch-up to its rivals, with a consumer GPRS service due to launch this autumn
Confidential reports to aid cybercrime crackdown
News With companies failing to report IT attacks, no statistics exist to prove the extent of the cybercrime problem
Infiniband demo shows future of computer architectures
News The high-speed interconnect will revolutionise the way we buy computers - and this week saw its first successful demonstration
Gameplay site hit by outage
News As if liquidating most of its assets weren't enough, the online retailer's site goes temporarily offline due to technical problems
AOL bent on taking 'AIM'
News Emboldened by the recent court victory giving it the rights to several Aimster-related domain names, AOL Time Warner tells the creator of an IM project his work is unauthorised
Intel puts its best chips forward at TechX
News Powerful new processors to be showcased at the TechX trade show in New York next week
The right kind of reward
Comment In this week's financial news, it turns out that eBay's year-2000 earnings report used the right number with the wrong sign. The company actually lost the $48 million that it claimed to have made.
Windows XP needs Passport to travel
News Critics say that by using Windows XP to encourage Passport sign-ups, the company is drawing on its dominance in operating systems to gain a foothold in online services
Alas poor ICL, we knew it well...
Comment The Great and the Good have been trying to run this country for Our Benefit for a lot longer than ICL has existed; but the news that ICL will cease to be next March, provides a lovely illustration...
Gateway Solo 9500xl
Review Solid enough in terms of performance and battery life, but you'd expect a few more features for the price.
