Dell extends Latitude notebook range

Dell's new value notebook, the Latitude 100L, is aimed at small and medium sized businesses. Weighing a rather hefty 3.25kg, the Latitude 100L can run on an Intel Celeron (up to 2. ...more

BT Wholesale reaches broadband landmark

Half a million ADSL broadband connections have now been made in the UK, BT Wholesale has announced. The lucky recipient of ADSL connection number 500,000 was apparently a mobile phone outlet in Barking, one Future AC. Incidentally, the ISP involved was not BT Openworld. ...more

Sun's StarOffice goes Open Source

The impetus for making proprietary code-bases Open Source has not died out. Sun claims that it has made the single largest Open Source code contribution to date. Sun's StarOffice desktop environment - word processor, database, email, scheduling, web publishing, etc - will be made available on the site www. ...more

Compaq pushes iPaq PDAs to 64Mb

Compaq has accidentally leaked information about a new range of 64Mb iPaq PDAs on its site. The new handhelds which, like the other iPaqs, will run on Microsoft's Pocket PC software, will be able to take two PC cards and will come with a wireless networking option. Apart from this, details of the new PDA are thin on the ground. ...more

Napster for the Mac reveals itself

Napster, the controversial software for sharing MP3 files over the Internet, is officially available for the Mac. A public beta of the Mac software was posted on the Napster Web site yesterday. Mac users have been able to use Napster technology for many months, in the form of a third-party client called Macster. ...more