Dutch government acknowledges Echelon spy network
News Parliamentary inquiry into communications eavesdropping launched
IBM and Research In Motion team on wireless devices
News Juicy deal for Blackberry company
Sentience: The next moral dilemma Pt II
News Allowing sentient beings legal protection and the right to choose
Sentience: The next moral dilemma
News Humankind will have to decide how to live with a new sentient race
AI in games reaches new level
News AI in games is nothing surprising, but Lionhead's Black & White promises to take the genre into a new turbo-charged dimension
Illegal ISPs?
Comment I look forward to the Secret Police's arrival at my house. Here, I own a Region One DVD of "Yellow Submarine" -- a cartoon movie designed for sale in America only; and I also own a DVD player...
Open Source strikes back
Comment The open source community's answer to the other camps is open source language alternatives.
Microsoft's Web sites go down
News Blackout across Microsoft's Web network
Freeserve targets AOL and BT
News AnyTime will undercut BTinternet and AOL flat rate packages
Software "fixes" routinely available but often ignored
News Apathy is the greatest dangerConnecting a computer to the Internet can be dangerous business. Just ask Troy Hall.
The Day Ahead: Compaq's CMGI loss quite a distraction
News Plenty of positives, though, in the fourth quarter
UK police crack down on local hackers
News Surrey hackers investigated after DDoS attacks
Government considering chatroom controls
News Hotline for concerned children or more online supervision could be on the way
Sega denies report of Dreamcast's demise
News Could Dreamcast be disappearing into the sunset?
Netscape.com to become portal for Time Warner content
News Relaunch will push Netscape as a content carrier
Sega moves away from consoles
News Squeezed out of the console market by Sony and Microsoft, Sega will license its architecture to the set-top market
Cooperative open source testbed opens doors
News Linux collaboration lab to make its mark
AOL Time Warner lays off 2,000 employees
News Job slashes a-plenty at newly merged company
Intel to slash chip prices by over 40 percent
News It's silly sale season for chip company
Investments deflate Compaq profit in 4Q
News PC maker makes a loss on Internet investment
Bluetooth arrests heart problems
News It'll be cheaper and easier to monitor a patient wirelessly, thanks to a Bluetooth chip
Dreamcast's next target: Set-top boxes
News Could this be a cost-effective way for Sega to keep its finger in the hardware pie?
Sun and Microsoft settle Java suit
News Both sides hail the agreement, but Microsoft will have to develop its own Java-like language for dot-Net
A Year Ago: Want to win £1m? Don't Ask Jeeves
News First published: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:28:45 GMT
OS wars: My way or the highway
Comment Certain proponents of particular operating systems are like adherents to some religions -- their way is the right way, and don't you dare attack it. Or, similarly, someone else's way is wrong and...

