PC Pro ?999 Labs - JAL Geraldine correction

In our ?999 PCs Labs in the August issue, we said that the Labs-winning JAL Geraldine featured an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU. The actual processor was an Athlon XP 3200+. However, as a generous goodwill gesture, JAL will be supplying customers with the Athlon 64 3200+ at the same price quoted in the magazine, which will provide significantly better performance. ...more

AOL takes on the spammers

AOL has taken its fight against spam email to new extremes, with the launching of five separate lawsuits against companies and individuals it alleges are responsible for more than one billion junk emails. The company claims that these emails generated over eight million individual complaints from its members, via AOL 8.0's Report Spam button. ...more

Music services show mixed financial results

There were mixed fortunes for two of Apple's main rivals in the digital music market, Napster and Real Networks, when they announced their latest financial results last night. Napster's losses grew to $19.9 million for the latest quarter, compared to just $2. ...more

Microsoft kicks off TechEd with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Network security and software development were the keynote announcements on the first day of Microsoft's TechEd show in San Diego, California. Following Microsoft's current emphasis on the security of its products, HP and Microsoft are to develop and market a hardware security system, known as the 'HP ProLiant DL320 Firewall/VPN/Cache Server running Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server (ISA) 2004'. 'Businesses must remain securely operational in the face of ever-increasing security threats,' said HP's VP of enterprise Microsoft services, Rick Fricchione. ...more

Leased line delivery dates to be binding across the EU

The European Commission has recommended that member states should introduce binding delivery times for the installation of leased lines. Although one might think this is an elementary contract requirement, apparently the EC has found this is not so. It discovered that delivery times for a 2Mbit line in the slowest member state are five times longer than the fastest. ...more