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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]
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: 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: 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]
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 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: 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]
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: 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]
Online Christmas Shopping Soared In 2001
News More than 10 million Britons visited e-commerce Web sites over Christmas -- an increase of three million on the number of online shoppers in December 2000. The 10 million online shoppers accounted for nearly 70 percent of the UK Internet population.
[January 24, 2002, 17:03]
Yahoo! Lowers 2001 Earnings, Sales Targets
News Yahoo! met earnings expectations, but fourth quarter sales fell short of estimates and the company cut its outlook for 2001. The portal posted a fourth-quarter profit of $80.2m (£54m), or 13 cents a share, on sales of $310.8m after the bell Wednesday.
[January 11, 2001, 8:06]
Comdex 2001: IBM Prepares Sequel To Summit Server
News IBM still is months from launching its most important Intel server, based on a chip that enables a 16-processor system, but already Big Blue is contemplating a 32-processor successor as well as plans to license the first model to other companies.
[November 14, 2001, 10:02]
Deploying Content Management Server 2001 And Commerce Server 2000 Sites
White Papers Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 features an out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 enabling content management for personalized and targeted e-commerce sites. Microsoft Content Management Server provides content...
[December 28, 2006, 23:00]
Performance Report 2001/2002
White Papers Defense is a major public service, delivered on behalf of the British people and their interests and that is one of the key lessons we can draw from the year 2001/02, a year that again saw our Armed Forces in action across the world.
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Comdex 2001: Skinny Desktop Models Show Off
News The mini is back, as PC makers put their Pentium 4 desktops on a diet. Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard will introduce, early next year, new "ultra slim" Pentium 4-based desktops with minimalist, space-saving designs.
[November 13, 2001, 15:37]
Summary Of The Child Tax Credit Provisions Of HR 1836 (The Economic Growth And Tax Relief Reconciliation Act Of 2001)
White Papers On June 7, President Bush signed into law the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (also known as HR 1836). The new law represents the largest tax cut in a generation. There were four major components to the bill: an across-the...
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
Comdex 2001: Ironing Out Mobile Web Wrinkles
News Internet access over mobile phones may be at best a clunky process now, but Openwave System's Don Listwin says there are better days ahead. New mobile phone technology, improved networks and better software will make Web browsing via cell phones a...
[November 14, 2001, 14:09]
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]
MicrosoftÂ’s Money 2001 Gets Personal
News The battle for leadership of personal finance software is heating up. Microsoft, which has of late been winning a fair share of critical reviews, Monday introduced new versions of its Money product, offering features that were developed in...
[August 15, 2000, 10:15]
