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Red Hat to issue European Linux kernel CD
News Leading Linux firm Red Hat will mid-February provide European users of its operating system with an update CD including the new kernel 2.4. Ian Cole, professional services and finance director for Red Hat in the UK, said that the company does not...
[January 26, 2001, 15:33]
SuSE offers Linux kernel 2.4
News German Linux company SuSE announced Friday that it will provide customers with the newly released Linux kernel 2.4 on 12 February, just a few weeks after it was unveiled by Linus Torvalds. SuSE is the first major distributor of the Linux operating...
[January 26, 2001, 12:04]
Web sites fail to protect privacy
News The vast majority of European and US Web sites are failing to protect users' privacy, according to a UK-based consumer interest group Thursday. Consumers International, which represents 263 consumer organisations, says that hardly any Internet...
[January 25, 2001, 16:12]
AltaVista in search patent threat
News Internet search portal AltaVista is reportedly threatening to issue lawsuits against companies using Internet search technologies that it has patented. AltaVista was awarded four patents covering search techniques 13 November including one covering...
[January 25, 2001, 12:50]
Egg investigates service outage
News UK Internet bank Egg has been unable to offer an online banking service to its customers since the beginning of the week, having suffered problems with its back-end infrastructure. The bank, launched by Prudential, recently upgraded its Internet...
[January 25, 2001, 8:40]
A Year Ago: Online undertakers taking orders
News Dying to get online.look no further The UK's first online undertakers, launched Tuesday, offers the British public everything needed for a pain free journey into the next life The funeral web site service available at www.funeral-services.co.uk is...
[January 25, 2001, 6:01]
Dutch government acknowledges Echelon spy network
News The Dutch government has publicly acknowledged the existence of the covert satellite surveillance network used by Britain, the US and other allied nations to eavesdrop on international phone calls, emails and faxes, code-named Echelon.
[January 24, 2001, 16:37]
UK police crack down on local hackers
News Police in Surrey are investigating the role that suspected local computer hackers may have played in orchestrating attacks on popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) servers in Europe and the US in recent months.
[January 24, 2001, 11:45]
Microsoft investigates Web attack
News Microsoft's security record took a battering Monday when its New Zealand Web site was defaced group of cyber hooligans called "prime suspectz", leaving the world's largest software firm red-faced. The company says it is investigating the breach and...
[January 23, 2001, 15:18]
Intelligent machines threaten humankind
News Science fiction has portrayed machines capable of thinking and acting for themselves with a mixture of anticipation and dread, but what was once the realm of fiction has now become the subject of serious debate for researchers and writers.
[January 23, 2001, 13:12]
Three million new Net users in the UK
News There are more than 11.5 million people surfing the Internet from home in the UK, a growth of 3 million for the year 2000, according to the latest figures from Internet monitoring company NetValue. Although the figures should help console an...
[January 23, 2001, 10:44]
Open source service takes off
News Open source development site SourceForge.net, which coordinates some of the largest and most influential programming projects around, announced Friday that it has reached more than 100,000 registered users.
[January 22, 2001, 13:31]
A Year Ago: Scientists move closer to quantum computing
News Colorado institute increases control over atoms Scientists at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Colorado have moved a step closer to developing the technology that would make quantum computers possible.
[January 21, 2001, 6:03]
Letsbuyit.com gets bankruptcy reprieve
News Beleaguered online retail portal Letsbuyit.com was granted a stay of execution Friday when a Dutch court gave it until 24 January to find the 4m Euros (£2.5m) required to pay off its debts. Dutch legal firm Van Doorne, which was appointed trustee...
[January 19, 2001, 15:21]
Melissa-X remains contained
News European antivirus specialists report Friday that a new virus based on Melissa has hit a limited number of companies in Europe. It looks like it is relatively under control," says Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre...
[January 19, 2001, 13:45]
Chip industry looks to 2GHz in 2001
News Microprocessor manufacturers will crack the 2GHz speed barrier and 3G devices will spur on the semiconductor industry in 2001, leading analysts predicted Thursday. New semiconductor fabrication technologies, including a spray-on polymer and...
[January 19, 2001, 11:56]
Oftel speeds up unbundling plans
News Oftel is to bring forward the unbundling of the UK's most popular local telephone exchanges, after a special meeting with BT and other telcos Thursday to tackle a lack of operator interest. The telecommunications watchdog said it plans to make the...
[January 18, 2001, 15:34]
Gambling sites beat the dot-com downturn
News Internet gambling is one trade that is booming despite the current atmosphere of dotcom gloom, according to Web traffic monitoring company Jupiter MMXI Thursday. While many dot-coms are forced to cut back in order to survive market coldness towards...
[January 18, 2001, 13:43]
E-envoy calls for help bridging digital divide
News The UK's acting e-envoy Andrew Pinder called on representatives of the ISP industry to help close Britain's economic and geographic digital divisions Tuesday, The government, which is keen to see universal Net access available in the UK, has...
[January 18, 2001, 9:26]
Nuggets: Fuji's identity crisis
News A combined digital camera and MP3 player that can also record digital video, the Fujifilm Finepix 40i is a chameleon of a device. But far from being a gimmick, the Finepix really does perform really rather well as both.
[December 15, 2000, 12:50]
