eBay enjoys the Webby Awards 2003

The Webby Awards for 2003 have been announced. Winners of the seventh annual online Oscars include eBay (Services), Lonely Planet Online (Travel), rathergood.com (Weird) and Amazon. ...more

Wanadoo wishes online advertising had more worth

Wanadoo has called for advertisers to take the Web as seriously they do TV. It quotes its latest research as showing that broadband users put in more surf-hours and at the expense of time spent in front of the box. 'Broadband Internet is slowly but surely eating into TV consumption,' said Dave McCall, advertising sales director at Wanadoo. ...more

Intel 4GHz Pentium chips no longer scheduled for 2004

Intel has admitted that it will miss its year-end target for Pentium 4 processors to hit the 4GHz mark. It now appears that early 2005 is the date for this desktop clocking milestone. The announcement is further bad news for the chip giant in what has been a rather rocky (although still profitable) year. ...more

Mac users get Spring date for Office 2007 compatibility

A Mac converter for the new file formats in Microsoft Office 2007 will not be available until Spring 2007, the company's Mac Business Unit has confirmed. Office 2007, released last week to business users, uses Microsoft's new Open XML to save documents by default. However the resulting Word . ...more

UK Net refuseniks stiffen in their resistance

More than half of UK households that currently do not have Internet access are unlikely to go online in future, according to a survey by Point Topic. The broadband research firm found that 53.7 per cent said they were 'not likely at all' to get access in the foreseeable future. ...more