UK games chart: A freshly squeezed number one

The city racing game Juiced makes it to number one in this week's ELSPA UK games chart, with the sandals and togas and many headed monsters of God of War being the only new entry. In its fourth week in the chart, THQ's multi-format game climbs from up from three to number one. Last week's top-of-the-pile, Medal of Honor: European Assault, EA's WWII first person shooter, falls one place. ...more

Nvidia releases long awaited 7800 GTX graphics chip

Graphics specialist Nvidia has announced the availability of the eagerly awaited GeForce 7800 GTX GPU (graphics processing unit). Built on a 0.11-micron process and using PCI Express graphics bus technology, the core runs at 430MHz alongside 256Mb of 1. ...more

Branson breathes life into Virgin Mobile, NTL merger

Flamboyant entrepreneur Richard Branson has offered to forgo a ?42 million payday in order to finalise a deal with cable company NTL. Last month an $817m bid for the Virgin Mobile phone business was rejected by the board even though Branson, who owns a 71.3 per cent stake in the business had given the deal his backing. ...more

Pessimistic outlook for online government

'Huge obstacles to overcome' before all services go online At The Internet Goes Public conference today in London, Steven Marsh, director of security at the Office of the e-Envoy, admitted that there were huge obstacles to overcome if the government is to meet its goal of getting all its services online by 2005. He said that above the risks of not meeting the 2005 target, there were worries that services would not be used and that there would be excessive cost in deploying them. Although 70 per cent of services are online today, he was concerned that only the easiest to implement had so far been tackled. ...more

Flash not to AMD's rescue

AMD hits a $184m loss. It sees mobile phone-driven success for Flash memory products, but performs badly when it comes to the microprocessors for PCs. In the wake of its repeated profit warnings, AMD reports a net loss of $184m for its second quarter results (covering the period April to June 2002). ...more