Hoax email goads users into deleting harmless files
News Hysteria, social engineering and false authority syndrome persuade gullible computer users to do the job of a virus
.Name masterplan to rake in the cash
News UK Internet upstart to make a mint from domain name offerings
RealNetworks snags Intel deal
News Just in the nick of time... Intel swoops to RealNetworks' rescue
Japanese 3G faces further delays
News Telcos are eager to begin making back their money on 3G, but technical hitches may hold back government approval for the pioneering Japanese network until 2002
Microsoft cashes in on Blair campaign
News The US software giant excels itself in the publicity stakes
Deal rumour batters RealNetworks
News RealNetworks is dead, long live RealNetworks
Hacker helps Excite@Home toughen defences
News Company praises hacker Adrien Lamo, in rare example of cooperation
One billion users will drive the Internet by 2005
News With fifteen percent of the world's population online, e-commerce will boom to $5tn
Intel chops desktop chip prices
News Prices of the Celeron drop by 38 percent, while the mobile Pentium III sees prices drop by a quarter
VA Linux acknowledges hack
News Linux company spills the beans on how its servers -- hosting the SourceForge development site -- were hacked
Yahoo!, Visa expand payment deal globally
News A deal between Visa and Yahoo! will make the credit card the default payment option around the world for products and services bought through the portal
Sun brews fresh Java
News Version 1.4 of Java 2 Standard Edition is the latest feature release, but Sun says there is still no Java 3 on the horizon
Lucent and Alcatel call off merger
News The two telecomms equipment giants cancel plans for a $32bn merger after Lucent rejects acquisition proposal
Server makers tout Itanium models
News Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard are among the companies to detail workstations and servers based on Intel's 64bit processor
One.Tel goes belly up
News Telecoms company One.Tel appoints the administrator as the Australian Securities and Investment Commission launches an investigation
Excel 2002
Review The improvements in Excel 2002 make it one of the main reasons for upgrading to Office XP.

