Previous DayMicrosoft wins antitrust appeal
News One year after a federal judge found Microsoft guilty of violating antitrust laws, a federal appeals court says the software titan will not be broken up after all
Ntl puts broadband on set-top boxes
News Cable company extends high-speed Internet access to former Cable & Wireless network
BT makes successful 3G video call
News Isle of Man's 3G network still looks on track for a 'late summer' launch, assuming technical glitches are overcome
Man divorces wife by text message
News An Islamic man has given his wife her marching orders via a brief SMS message, but scholars warn that phone divorces should not be taken lightly
Yahoo! to buy music site for $12m
News Let me entertain you: Yahoo! snaps up all-round music site Launch Media in a cash-for-stock deal
Wireless ads get standardised
News Suggestions of standards indicate that wireless advertising is starting to take shape
Prices for MP3 players to drop
News Cirrus Logic has squeezed most of the components in a digital music player onto a single chip, promising Internet music players for under £70
Hit list dwindles in new Napster software
News Napster plans to shut off old versions of its software to push an upgrade that includes a new filter for blocking copyrighted music - greatly reducing the number of song titles
Retool delays hackers' free-speech app
News It's back to the drawing board for the hacker collective creating an anti-censorship program that guards the identities of people on the Net
Microsoft edges into sharing code
News The software company will work with Corel to develop shared source versions of C# and CLI for the open source FreeBSD operating system
Compaq iPaq plunges into Inferno
News Inferno, an operating system that runs in less than 3MB of memory with full support for wireless networking, comes to Compaq's handheld
Computer passwords reveal office workers' secrets
News Family-types, fans, and the self-obsessed all give themselves away with easily guessable passwords. Only the cryptics are safe...
VA Linux to stop making computers
News Hammered by the slow economy, the once booming Linux company says it will exit the hardware business and cuts 153 jobs. It'll focus on software and other areas instead
EU Council agrees to Internet snooping proposals
News The proposal could see all voice and data traffic stored for up to seven years, but its critics hope it will be blocked by the European Parliament
Yahoo! ads will know where you are
News The Web portal inks a deal to use geographically targeted ads. Yahoo! is fighting against using the same technology to block access to hate material in certain countries
Russians launch Itanium attack
News Intel is turning to Moscow programmers to help solve the software shortage for IA-64
Alpha proved costly for Compaq
News Compaq executive denies the company is axing its hardware business, despite the loss of Alpha
The world is playing games
Comment OK, so Compaq's getting out of hardware. Memory chips are selling for less than it costs to make them. Tech is no longer the place to be. But there's one market in the area which has shown itself...
Microsoft drops Smart Tags from Windows XP
News Critics accused the software giant of going back to its old monopolistic tricks by using Smart Tags to tie Web surfers to Microsoft Web sites. Now the software giant has pulled the feature
Oftel to force lower broadband prices
News Telecoms regulator orders BT to sell wholesale broadband services at cheaper rates, amid concern over slow rollout
A Year Ago: Palm still handheld king
News When it comes to the handheld market, the king of the hill is still Palm
