Intel CEO Barrett to retire next May

Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel is to retire next May. He recently had his 65th birthday last month, the firm's mandatory retirement age for the office of CEO. Barrett joined Intel in 1974 and became a vice president in 1984, senior vice president in 1987, executive vice president in 1990 and chief operating officer in 1993. ...more

LovGate rears its head again

A new variant of the LovGate virus has reared its ugly head according to virus detection company MessageLabs. The new version W32/LovGate.F-m is a mass-mailing virus that incorporates an SMTP engine, and may be able to spread via network shares as well as email. ...more

Office XP expands to the Web

Delivering software as a service is how Microsoft sees the future, and a new Web site is one of the first concrete examples. Called "Tools on the Web", you can think of it as an online repository for Office XP services. The site lives at http://office. ...more

And also today (9-Jan-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Oracle announced support by the Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle8i Database for the new Linux kernel, v4.2. ...more

The Terapin comes to TV

The problem with recording your favourite TV programmes to VHS is very often the picture quality isn't up to much and in time the picture degrades. There are currently a handful of digital recorders that use a hard disk drive to record TV programmes, but wouldn't it be good if you could store programmes on a CD-R. Well, thanks to the Terapin from TeraOptix, you can do just that. ...more