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IBM to release Bluetooth tool for Linux developers
News To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. IBM officials Tuesday said the company will be releasing BlueDrekar, a tool to help Linux developers create applications for Bluetooth.
[November 1, 2000, 9:22]
EBay bugs cause overcharges
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. A technical glitch on eBay led to sellers being overcharged for relisting their items when they don't sell. EBay's policy is to credit the listing fee sellers pay when they relist an...
[March 26, 2001, 10:17]
News Burst: France Telecom cuts Orange flotation price
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Amid concerns over the state of the mobile phone industry, France Telecom has cut the flotation value of network operator Orange by around 10bn euros (£6.4bn).
[February 7, 2001, 9:02]
Sony picks Google for search service
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. Google has struck a deal to power Web search services for Sony's company sites. The deal marks the fledgling Web search engine's largest service deal to date, according to Google spokesman...
[August 17, 2001, 9:53]
News Burst: BT forced to provide cheap access
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Telecoms watchdog Oftel has announced tough new measures that will force BT to provide other operators with a wholesale flat rate Internet access product from February 1st 2001.
[November 13, 2000, 12:38]
Silicon.com brought down by burglars
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. UK technology news site silicon.com has been taken offline, by burglars. Vital computing equipment was stolen by thieves during a break-in at the dot-com's Chelsea headquarters Saturday...
[January 9, 2001, 12:53]
Ask Jeeves gets new chairman
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Ask Jeeves, the Web search service with a human touch, said Thursday it has appointed cofounder Garrett Gruener as chairman. The site has suffered its share of dot-com gloom, with the...
[January 12, 2001, 10:43]
News Burst: Super-regulator to shake up media
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. The future of all electronic media looks likely to be shaken up with the arrival of a super-regulator to be dubbed "Ofcom" which will have powers to investigate all broadcasting and...
[December 12, 2000, 9:35]
PlayStation2 sales hit $165m in first three days
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Research firm NPD Intelect released the first retail sales figures for Sony's PlayStation2 Thursday. According to the report, sales of the gaming system amounted to $165m between 26...
[November 10, 2000, 8:50]
News Burst: Napster injunction partly upheld
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. According to early reports from America, a US court has partly upheld an injunction against song-swapping site Napster. Judges at the Court of Appeals in San Francisco will issue its...
[February 12, 2001, 17:33]
German ISPs want to keep data about their surfers
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. The privacy watchdogs of all 16 federal German states, except Thueringen, have warned the secretaries of the interior of the states and the federal minister of interior that their new...
[December 4, 2000, 8:34]
GuruNet changes name, direction
News To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. GuruNet is getting a makeover. The one-question, one-answer search engine company has changed its name to "Atomica" and brought in a slew of new executives.
[November 7, 2000, 14:59]
Merrill Lynch staff sacked over porn, say reports
News To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. City stockbrokers Merrill Lynch has sacked 15 members of its London staff for sending offensive material on its system, say reports.
[October 13, 2000, 16:50]
News Burst: Massive storage technology to be showcased
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. US-based Constellation 3D will release details Monday of its fluorescent multi-layer disk (FMD) technology which the company claims will result in DVD-sized disks capable of holding...
[November 20, 2000, 9:47]
Star Wars film title revealed online
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. A sales representative, on a business trip to Fox Studios, claims to have seen promotional material for Episode 2 -- revealing the film's title.
[February 21, 2001, 11:39]
A Year Ago: US Navy reports on Kosovo conflict "cyber-soldiers"
News To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. "Information warriors a great success" A new report commissioned by the US Navy's European department reportedly claims the Kosovan conflict could have been...
[October 7, 2000, 7:04]
Flat future for Microsoft's Surface?
News Let us know what you think by using the talkback facility below. Whether you think it's just another Microsoft gimmick doomed to go the way of the Smart Display and other failed hardware ideas, or a genuinely interesting attempt at innovation from...
[June 6, 2007, 11:13]
News Burst: Internet boat to surf Borneo river
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Malaysia is to launch an Internet boat next year as part of a scheme to educate isolated villagers on Borneo about IT. It is hoped that the waterborne project will tackle the growing...
[December 7, 2000, 10:04]
News Burst: Brief filed to reveal identity of Netizen
News To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Lawsuits over users' rights to maintain online anonymity appear to be proliferating. On 13 October, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public filed a brief on...
[October 17, 2000, 11:50]
Cisco unveils new routers
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. The new 7300, 7603 and 7606 routers can reach up to OC-48 speeds, which moves data at 2.488gbps (gigabits per second). The products, which will ship in October, also support new Internet...
[September 14, 2001, 8:30]
