A New Year's resolution: do-it-yourself ADSL

BT confirms New Year launch date of its DIY broadband service. The self-install broadband ADSL service will be officially launched on 15 January, BT has confirmed. BT Wholesale will be able to connect up users to broadband services without the need for a home visit by an engineer - you simply plug yourself in, as it were. ...more

Bulldog befriends complaints site

Bulldog has taken a more proactive approach to widespread criticisms of its customer relations. The ISP, owned by Cable & Wireless, has teamed up with its most vocal critic, my-bulldog-hell. The website will now pass on feedback on Bulldog's service as well as customers problems. ...more

Apple's 30th Birthday [part 3] - The post-Jobs decline

With Steve Jobs out of the way, Apple CEO John Sculley briefly presided over what has been described as the first 'golden age' of the Macintosh. The computer that had been launched with a single Super Bowl advertisement took Apple's share of the market to over 40 per cent as the Mac was successively refined and enhanced. At the same time the operating system went through a series of evolutionary changes, peaking with System 7, which was released in 1991 and introduced full colour handling and powerful networking capabilities. ...more

US Recording Industry goes on the legal attack

A US recording industry organisation has launched a further 762 law suits against users of file-sharing networks suspected of trading copyright material. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the suits yesterday. Although the actual identities of those sued are not known, it is expected that ISPs will be asked to hand over identifying information for IP addresses that the RIAA believes have been used to swap copyright files. ...more

Holding your hand for Java development

Java developers with an eye on Palm OS-based devices should take note: Borland has just released a preview version of its JBuilder Handheld Express. JBuilder is Borland's Java visual development tool and the Handheld Express is an add-on to address themarket for network-connected devices. The add-on to JBuilder 4 extends the development environment with new Wizards and other functionality to simplify development for the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) platform. ...more