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2001: Britons get comfortable online
News The UK experienced its first dip in the fast growth of British home Internet penetration in 2001. But concerns of an Internet slowdown were lifted by the fact that the number of UK homes connecting to the Internet increased by more than 50 percent...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
2001: Year of the virus
News Email viruses are more widespread than ever, despite the increasing sophistication of antivirus tools Viruses such as yesterday's Homepage email worm and the earlier Kournikova worm do not represent a major advance in virus writing and are simple...
[May 10, 2001, 15:06]
2001: Where's the money?
News The slump that started with tech stocks in the spring of 2000 may be about to bottom out, or it could continue for months. The big new-economy question for 2001 will be: what is the extent of the damage?
[December 26, 2000, 6:13]
2001: Peer-to-peer technology grows up
News It's now over two years since a few underground song-swapping services put peer-to-peer technology firmly at the forefront of the IT agenda. Napster's little bout of legal trouble, which kicked off back in December 1999, ground merrily on...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
News Roundup: 2001 is the year of GPRS
News During the week of CeBIT, Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens and Nokia all launched mobile phones that will use the always-on, high speed GPRS networks. In the UK, businesses can already sign up to GPRS networks, while consumer services are promised for...
[March 23, 2001, 14:50]
2001: Ups and downs on the way for chips
News As 2000 draws to a close, the course for the chip business over the next 12 months looks more uncertain than ever. Warnings from chip makers Intel and AMD underscore questions about where the consumer and corporate PC markets are heading, and the...
[December 30, 2000, 6:12]
2001: Email misdemeanours
News In 2001, email got one step closer to middle age as it hit 30 years old. Email has become a vital tool for business communication, but a series of blunders throughout the year exposed the fact that employees using the medium can still be woefully...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
2001: The News Schmooze in review
News The UK supposedly got GPRS in 2001, but you'd have been hard-pressed to notice, even if you were one of those corporate types supposedly gagging for fast, always-on wireless access. At its GPRS launch in May BT said, "the mobile Internet has become...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
2001: The year of the virus
News 2001 brought with it an answer to the paranoia over the Y2K bug that gripped the world in 1999, and its name was Code Red. After a taster of the worm in early July, security experts around the world were quick to predict an Internet meltdown on 31...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
2001: The year of the robot
News 2001 was a great year for robot lovers, even if experts did caution that anyone who actually wants to be a robot's lover would be on a pretty sticky wicket. A UK-based company designed a robot hound that dwarfed the AIBO, only for Sony hit back...
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Comdex 2001: Sony weds wireless with AOL, Nokia
News Sony unfurled major alliances on Monday with AOL Time Warner and Nokia as part of its ongoing, years-long effort to become one of the defining and dominant companies of the Internet era. The new alliances is also likely to fuel Sony's ongoing...
[November 13, 2001, 11:04]
E-commerce Forum: European e-commerce to reach $30 billion by 2001
News Electronic commerce in Europe will be worth $30bn (£18.4bn) by 2001, according to Frank Gens, president of IDC, in an opening address to the E-commerce Forum starting today in Monaco. While the enormous growth in e-commerce will represent strong...
[May 11, 1998, 15:36]
mySchedule NHL 2001
Downloads mySchedule NHL is a scheduler for the National Hockey League 2001-2002 season.mySchedule includes all 30 team's schedule and standings
[November 6, 2001, 7:00]
News Burst: 50% Net sales and top 5 by 2001 says Acer
News Acer also said that it will focus increasingly on direct-style Internet based sales, in a move designed to combat the Net presence of direct selling rivals like Gateway and Dell, and expects such sales to account for 50% of all units sold by 2001.
[September 10, 1998, 11:46]
Microsoft Office 2001
Downloads Microsoft developed the most Mac-like version of Microsoft Office yet, with many features appearing for the very first time - on any platform. Each Office 2001 application offers an updated user interface with a modern Macintosh look and feel.
[September 11, 2005, 8:00]
Comdex 2001: Cisco wants wireless everywhere
News Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers wants the Internet everywhere -- at home, at work, in airplanes, and even at your local coffee shop. In his keynote address on Monday at Comdex Fall 2001 in Las Vegas, Chambers touted his vision of the...
[November 13, 2001, 11:55]
News Roundup: GSM World 2001 in Cannes
News Companies like Palm, Ericsson and HP all used GSM World 2001 to unveil their latest hot products while mobile bigwigs used the Congress as an opportunity to debate what the next generation of mobile phones and PDAs will mean to consumers and to...
[February 22, 2001, 10:41]
Hybris virus: Sleeper hit of 2001
News Hybris, a computer worm that uses encrypted plug-ins to update itself, could be the sleeper hit of 2001, antivirus experts say. It's not a fast mailer or a mass mailer. It's slow and subtle," said Roger Thompson, technical director of malicious...
[January 12, 2001, 8:47]
Jobs: Final Mac OS X held until 2001
News Apple Computer has moved back the release date of Mac OS X to January 2001, CEO Steve Jobs revealed during his Monday morning keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. Jobs told developers that Apple will distribute a...
[May 16, 2000, 9:08]
NHL 2001 demo
Downloads Live the experience and taste the emotion of NHL 2001. The game features: a new challenge mode--earn more player rewards like extra boosts of speed, shot power or accuracy, aggressiveness, and fighting; improved defensive AI; enhanced user control...
[September 27, 2000, 4:22]
