Microsoft offers new release candidate for Windows Server 2003

Microsoft has posted an R2 release candidate of its upcoming upgrade for Windows Server 2003. Building on the original Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), R2 is an updated release of the Windows Server 2003 operating system that aims to extend connectivity and reach throughout an organisation. In particular, Microsoft has targeted servers at branch offices to bring them under the central umbrella. ...more

Dot com disaster dishes out dogs' dinner

Are you fed up reading about how yet another Web site has bitten the dirt? Well, some good has come out of one dot com crash. When online pet superstore Pets.com collapsed after lack of funding at the beginning of November, no one would have thought that a little ray of light would come out of the darkness of financial ruin. ...more

iTunes glitch gives Arctic Monkeys top spot

The Arctic Monkeys must be thanking whoever it was at the iTunes Store that helped them dominate the UK music charts last week. The band's album Favourite Worst Nightmare topped the album charts at the weekend, at the same time that 17 of its tracks featured in the top 200 singles chart. Two made it into the Top 75. ...more

Heathrow Express becomes a Wi-Fi HotSpot

Heathrow Express has opened its Wi-Fi HotSpot service for business. The official launch at Paddington today marked the completion of the project between Heathrow Express, T-Mobile and Nomad, a UK company specialising in data links to trains. How much surfing can you do in a journey that is only scheduled to last 15 minutes? That's not the point, said Brian Raven MD of Heathrow Express, for the high-powered customers who frequent the train 'every second counts' he insisted. ...more

Microsoft extends product lifecycle

Microsoft moves to provide 'predictable and consistent' guidelines on product support. Microsoft has unveiled a Support Lifecycle Policy. This contains official guidelines for product support availability at the time of product release. ...more