Mobiles cause cancer, BT headaches

Mobile phones have come under attack from both scientists and BT, one due to fears about health, the other due to fears about profits. Research from the University of Essen in Germany suggests there may well be a link between cancer and mobile phone use, an assertion previously unsubstantiated by any evidence. The scientists tested a group of people with eye cancer and compared them to a control group of healthy people. ...more

JBuilder moves to keep up with Java

JBuilder 8 is the latest update to Borland's venerable Java development system. This new release builds on the most up-to-date JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.4 technology from Sun Microsystems. ...more

Lloyds' euro rollout starts in Spain

Lloyds TSB has launched its online bank, evolvebank.com, in Spain today, ahead of its UK launch. Lloyds has watched from the sidelines the troubles that have hit other online banking ventures and so has proceeded with a cautious rollout - the service has been available to a controlled sample of 100 Spaniards in the last couple of months. ...more

ATI debuts Radeon X1800 range

Graphics chip specialist ATI has come up with a new range of GPUs aimed at the notebook market. The company is claiming that the new chips will offer notebook users blinding performance on their machines. The company has announced two new chips known as the Mobility Radeon X1800 and Mobility Radeon X1800 XT mobile GPU based on the same R520 core as the desktop version of the X1800. ...more

BT to begin 256Kbit/sec broadband as an IPStream package

BT is to begin trials of a 256Kbit/sec ADSL product next month. The company has apparently decided to launch the IPStream package after feedback from ISPs showed that there is demand for 'broadband' services that are close to the price of dial-up. Not that much cheaper, however, as indications are that BT will only charge ISPs around 75p less for the 256Kbps product than for 512Kbps. ...more