BT offers 75p bait for 256Kbps broadband

BT Wholesale has notified ISPs of the price it will charge for its 256Kbps home broadband service. Introduced, says BT, at the behest of service providers, IPSTream Home 250 will costs ISPs ?12.25 per month, just 75p less than they pay for the 512Kbps service. ...more

Alicebot in Artificial Intelligence wonderland

The computer program Alicebot Silver Edition has won the Loebner prize for the third time. Alicebot had previously won the title in 2000 and 2001. The runner up was a British entry called Jabberwacky The garrulous bot picks up a bronze medal and $2000 in prize money. ...more

And also today (10-Apr-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Bad maths in the courtroom Last week an award of $296,873 was made against MP3.com in a copyright lawsuit brought by the record label Tee Vee Toons. ...more

BBC opens its archive to downloaders and mixers

BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra have released nearly 100 programme extracts from the BBC archives. They are made freely available to the British public to use under the terms of the newly introduced Creative Archive Licence. The Creative Archive Licence (CAL) is the brainchild of the BBC, the BFI, Channel 4 and the Open University and other members of the Creative Archive Licence Group to make their content - whether it be video, audio or images - available for download. ...more

HP to back HD-DVD

Hewlett Packard has announced that it will be supporting Toshiba's HD-DVD format as well as that of Sony's Blu-Ray. The company will also be joining the HD-DVD Promotions Group. While the move will be a serious blow to the Sony format, it is by no means unexpected. ...more