IT Anthems: Philips was my first love
Feature Words fail us. The zany Dutch tech company excels itself with a cover of one of the defining anthems of the 1970s
Thursday
Blog Thursday 24/10/2002Tablets are everywhere, as Microsoft tries to tell us that what we need is a laptop with no keyboard. Personally, I find A4-sized tablets hard to swallow. It's true that they...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Rupert goes overboard in the Navy, trains his cellphone to imitate Dr Who and bemoans the passing of his digital life history. But what's that crunching sound from the newsdesk?
Smartphones, tablet PCs and even smaller things
Comment News Schmooze: Microsoft, Vodafone and Symbian commenced battle, tablet PCs geared up and IBM made a circuit that's a gas.
Warning over e-card spam scam
News Security companies are warning of an e-card company that downloads a spamming application onto visitors' PCs
Dabs.com's cable cut
News Online tech retailer Dabs.com was knocked off the air on Friday by a 'broken cable', but hopes to be back up for the weekend
India's IT firms urged to look to UK
News Britain will use the Bangalore IT.com trade show to strengthen technology links between India and the UK
StorageNetworks plans job cuts
News The software storage company plans to cut 27 percent of its work force in an attempt to spare expenses
ATI goes mainstream with new graphics technology
News Three new graphics processors bring DirectX 9.0 support and ATI's industry-leading Radeon 9700 Pro technology to a lower-cost consumer market
Microsoft posters don't stick in NYC
News New York City has ordered Microsoft to net its butterflies
Telewest claims success in broadband 'Whiskas' test
News The cable firm claims to be beating BT in parts of Britain where there is a choice of broadband providers
BT shrugs off Freeserve broadband complaints
News Freeserve is accused of 'perpetual but redundant belly-aching' after calculating that UK consumers could be £100m worse off because of BT Broadband
New age rating system for games in Europe
News An age rating system has been put in place in Europe to ensure children aren't exposed to unsuitable content
Government slammed for IT training scheme fiasco
News Blame lies at the Government's door for failed IT training scheme
Nvidia chips to make tardy debut
News The NV30 processor will make its debut next month, but volume shipments will not begin until next year. The delays have given rival ATI valuable time to catch up
Asus SpaceLink WL-300 Access Point
Review The WL-300 is an affordable route into 11Mbps wireless networking. If you can cope with a few odd phrases in the management software, and don't want the very fastest connection, this is a great...
Tech spending could crawl back to life
News A survey finds that a slim majority of CIOs expect growth to pick up in the first half of next year
Price wars give Amazon an edge
News Results are better than expected, but profits from some core areas disappoint
Apple goes retail with iPod
News A deal with a major US retailer could broaden the music player's sales in time for Christmas
CIOs pessimistic about their own technology
News A survey finds that most chief information officers do not believe their IT is reliable or gives their company an advantage
Meta founder advises detox for 'hungover' companies
News Businesses can use IT to manage bad contracts and haul themselves out of trouble, says Meta Group's Dale Kutnick
Vodafone gambles on 'biggest ever launch'
News The mobile operator takes Japanese-style mobile services back to the UK with a heavily marketed new service
D-Link AirPlus DI-614+
Review Its ease of use, good performance, excellent security features and low price make the DI-614+ a strong candidate for home and office use -- but its limited range and restricted warranty...
Linux will power IBM supercomputer project
News The upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers will run on an extended form of Linux, a major endorsement for the open source operating system
Sun to step aboard Web services group
News The server maker reverses its adversarial stance against the WS-I, beginning a new chapter in the rivalry to control the direction of Web services
HP to double up Itanium chips
News New Itanium plans demonstrate that HP can take Intel's chips in its own direction



