Dot com startups shutdown

Two major, celebrity-endorsed Web sites are facing closure. Both Clickmango and Pop.Com are facing the chop, having failed to raise the necessary money or punters' interests to continue. ...more

Dell eyes market share for consumer notebooks

The recent launch of the Dell Inspiron XPS notebook computer highlights Dell's determination to expand its share in the world's desktop replacement notebook market, according market observers in Taiwan. The new model, designed especially for gaming, will be crucial to Dell's efforts to sell more notebooks into the consumer market this year. The Dell Inspiron XPS employs an 800MHz front-side bus (FSB) with 512MB of dual-channel DDR SDRAM and is the world's first notebook to use Intel's latest desktop-use 3. ...more

BT cuts broadband pricing

BT has cut its wholesale prices for ADSL IPStream products by up to ?2 on consumer products and by 55 per cent for business, but the ISPs aren't altogether happy. 'We have a major price cut in wholesale DSL,' said Ben Verwaayen, CEO of BT. The price cuts come into effect from the 1 May, and are applicable to the IPStream offerings. ...more

Parallels updates Desktop virtualisation

Parallels has released a new update to its Desktop virtualisation software that adds support for Macs with more than 2GB of RAM. Desktop enables Intel Mac users to run Windows alongside OS X, as opposed to Apple's Boot Camp software, which only lets you run one or the other. The update supports Mac Pro and Core2Duo Macs with up to 16GB of memory. ...more

Users warned to beware the 3rd of Feb

Users are being urged to ensure that their anti-virus software and other security systems are in place before tomorrow - the 3rd of February when a new piece of malware threatens the files of infected machines. The malware - termed MyWife, Blackmal, Nyxem, the Karma Sutra worm and other names depending on which security firm you speak to - surfaced last month. The malware gets its name by its use of the time honoured technique of promising pornographic files in the attachment, what Microsoft coyly calls at attempt to 'entice users through social engineering efforts'. ...more