BT launches SDSL services

BT has launched its first SDSL broadband services following successful trials at 100 exchanges nationwide. The commercial services will be available initially in the trial areas - London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Yorkshire, the West Midlands and Scotland - although BT plans to extend it to another 50 exchanges by January 2004. Details of this are expected to be made available in October. ...more

Web logging made easy

Web logs, or blogs, may be the fastest growing area on the Web, but creating them can be a confusing and unintuitive process, particularly if you're not particularly au fait with Internet technology. Sparkpod is a new blogging tool that aims to make the process as simple as possible, and appears to succeed. Blogs are a kind of online diary or journal, a handy place to collect your musings and keep in touch with your friend and families. ...more

AMD rolls out 90nm Opterons from its Dresden fab

AMD is reported to have started rolling sample quantities 90nm versions of its Opteron processors from its Fab30 factory in Dresden. The company says it plans to start shipping processors to OEMs in the third quarter of this year. The company is reported to be using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) manufacturing process as well as Applied Material's Black Diamond low-k technology. ...more

Napster - the house arrests have already begun

It might be fun sharing copyrighted MP3 files, but for one group of pirates in Belgium the game could be well and truly up. After complaints by the music industry, the Belgian authorities have raided a number of homes looking for illegally downloaded files. The first batch of raids - Belgian police have revealed - began in late December after the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry used tracking equipment to scan for illegally downloaded material. ...more

Vista on Intel Macs not on the horizon

The retiring head of Microsoft's Windows team has confirmed, to no great surprise, that there will not be a version of Vista built to run on Apple's Intel Macs. 'We have no plans to move Vista to the Macintosh hardware,' Jim Allchin told the Seattle Times. At least not while Microsoft's Mac Business Unit continues to sell Virtual PC software that enables Macs to run the Windows OS alongside their own. ...more