Previous DayCompaq Evo N150c
Review If cost is your primary consideration, there are cheaper notebooks available. However, Compaq's entry-level Evo N150c is a nicely designed, lightweight notebook with good battery life.
Linux users to get RealOne port
News RealNetworks will release a Linux version of its subscription content player with combined browser early in the new year
BTopenworld trials music subscription service
News The ISP aims to out-Napster Napster, with its service that will let users download legitimate music over the Net for a monthly subsciption
Privacy under threat
Comment The terrorist attacks in September have led to new legislation that has the potential to increase the amount of data held by ISPs for the use of law enforcement agencies - and to give new reserve...
Napster court case throttles file sharing
News The number of Europeans regularly swapping files fell to just 4.6 million after Napster was taken to court, from a high of eight million in February
Volvo puts brakes on terror joke emails
News The Swedish car manufacturer has clamped down after workers sent each other inappropriate jokes and pictures of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden
Virgin Mobile admits storing customer location records
News Every Virgin Mobile phone call is tracked to within a few hundred metres. Virgin plans to keep the data 'indefinitely', and privacy advocates are not happy
Low-end Sun server aimed at Intel
News Sun takes on the Wintel market with a new eight-processor server, which it says can replace several lesser machines to reduce costs
Storage sales set to beat economic gloom
News The disk storage systems market remains strong despite the economic downturn, according to new research
Compaq supercomputer set for debut
News The computer maker will this week unveil its 'Terascale' supercomputer, whose 3,000 Alpha processors calculate as fast as 10,000 desktop PCs
Intel, AMD to trim chip prices
News Both chipmakers will cut prices on their desktop chips this week, but shoppers won't have to wait to take advantage of the upcoming deals
MSN browser lockout fuels antitrust cry
News A trade group has taken up the cause of Mozilla and Opera browser users who have been shut out of MSN by asking state and federal trustbusters to intercede
PartitionMagic 7.0
Review If you already have version 6.0 and don't plan on experimenting with XP, you can skip this upgrade. Otherwise, buy it right away.
