Photoshop 7.0
Review If you're an advanced photographer and don't have Photoshop yet, or if you need natural paint tools, version 7.0 is a must-have. Otherwise, version 6.0 will do the trick.
AMD touts Linux support for new chips
News Advanced Micro Devices says the next major public update for Linux will support the company's x86-64 technology - the basis for its next-generation Hammer chips
Instant Messengers
Buyer's Guide There's a plethora of instant messaging clients, each with different pros and cons. Which is our favourite? Check out this eight-product group test.
Microsoft targets undergraduate developers
News Microsoft hopes to win over software developers while they're still young
Will techs gain from auditor scrutiny?
News News analysis The Enron case has highlighted the potential problems of having the same firm as consultants and auditors, but some tech firms may benefit from the functions being separated
Wireless networking kits
Buyer's Guide Want to share an Internet connection among several PCs at home? A good-quality 802.11b wireless gateway gives you the necessary connectivity, bandwidth and security features, and frees you from the...
Microsoft's Mundie slams Liberty at WCIT
News Speaking at the WCIT 2002, Microsoft's chief technical officer Craig Mundie says public licence advocates don't understand the need to commercialise
'Cancer link' mobile mast testing begins
News Concern over a cluster of cancer cases has led a London council to pay an expert team to measure emission levels near two mobile phone masts
Is IT burnout a thing of the past?
News The stresses on IT staff are changing - from working through the night and sleeping at their desks to worrying about whether their job will be there tomorrow
Future looks bright for wireless networking
News Analysts expect the wireless networking market to continue to grow as businesses and consumers take advantage of falling prices
Police use UV marking to fight mobile theft
News Thousands of mobile phones will be labelled in an attempt to cut the spiralling number of handset thefts and increase the chances of property being returned to its owner
EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News According to 'Super Mario' Monti, the EC competition commissioner, mobile phone users are exploited when they use their handsets abroad
IDF: Don't expect a low-voltage Pentium 4
News Intel won't be trying to fit the P4 into ultraportable notebooks that require low-power chips
Scripting flaw leaves sites vulnerable
News Attackers may already have been aware of the bug in PHP, which runs on millions of servers, for weeks
Accused piracy leader pleads guilty
News The man accused of being the leader of the DrinkOrDie Internet piracy group faces a five-year sentence for copyright infringement
Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News Morpheus' parent company may shift to a music-swapping alternative as its popular back-end software fails
Will MS pact changes open floodgates?
News New legal briefs to be filed this week could change the playing field in Microsoft's antitrust case
IDF: Future computers take a new form
News New technologies impose new rules and give new freedoms, according to Intel's Desktop Architecture Labs, and the next decade will see PCs redesigned from the inside out
IDF: New Pentium 4 to debut in 2003
News Intel says Prescott, the next version of its Pentium 4 chip, will use hyper-threading to beef up desktop performance. Also for next year: The arrival of the 3GIO component connection standard
IDF: Itanium line to grow over next three years
News Intel is continuing its relentless assault on big-iron enterprise servers, with a new 64-bit processor to come out every year for the next three years
IDF: Intel looks for help on future PC concept
News It is three years since Intel concept PCs first appeared - and quickly disappeared. Now Intel is looking to the public and industry to help with its Lecta concept PC platform
Fiorina says pay no heed to Hewlett
News The HP chief executive dismisses Walter Hewlett's alternative proposals as 'a press release' while defending the plans for a merger with Compaq to analysts
Five years ago: AOL to put ads online
News The UK service will only carry ads on its most popular areas
Orinoco Residential Gateway RG-1000
Review A respectable product that you can use as you change your Internet connection method, but combining wireless and wired clients with a broadband connection could be tricky. The footprint and...



