EU eyes mobile roaming costs

The EU will later today tell national telecoms regulators that it will force them to cut the cost of using a mobile phone outside of your home country. Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for Information, Society and Media, described international roaming charges as 'fantasy costs' and plans to cap them to same level as the price of calls to a different network. Assuming it is approved by the European Parliament the new law will not come into effect until 2007 or even 2008. ...more

Microsoft releases heavyweight patch for IE

More duvet than patch, a 2Mb download from Microsoft fixes six new vulnerabilities discovered in IE 5.01 to 6.0 and includes previous patches for the browser. ...more

Intel invests in Ireland to build new Fab

Intel is to invest 1.6 billion Euros in its Irish operation. The company plans to build another manufacturing plant at its Leixlip, county Kildare site. ...more

Firefox reaches 10 million milestone

Firefox has been downloaded an impressive 10 million times in the month since version 1.0 was released on 9 November. The open source and standards-based Web browser has already shown signs of eroding Internet Explorer's almost total dominance in the browsing arena. ...more

VIA brands new chip line

VIA Technologies has unveiled the official brand names of the new family of x86 compatible processors based around its forthcoming `Esther` core. To no-one's real surprise, the names turn out to be the C7 series. Based on the C5J Esther core, the VIA C7 processor will target low power desktop PCs and consumer electronics items such as video recorders whilst the VIA C7-M processor will aim for the notebook and Tablet PCs. ...more