Freeserve becomes Wanadoo, confirms ?17.99 service; PlusNet cuts ?1 off sub-512 services

Freeserve officially becomes Wanadoo today and as anticipated marked the occasion by announcing a capped 512Kbit/sec ADSL package with a 2GB monthly cap, which as we as noted yesterday compares favourably with similar products from other ISPs. Despite the name change, existing Freeserve customers will be able to carry on as before with email addresses and so on as they were. Wanadoo can be found at www. ...more

Amazon finally finds the source of profits

Amazon.com, the bellwether dot com stock of the 1990s has finally made a profit. In its annual results, the company made $35 million in 2003 compared with a net loss of $149 million in 2002. ...more

Million Dollar Homepage student hits a million dollars

The UK student who attempted to sell one million pixels on a website for a dollar each has succeeded. Alex Tew used eBay to sell the final 1,000 pixels with bidding for the last remaining space reaching more than $38,000 ensuring that Tew reached his target of $1mn. His efforts garnered a great deal of publicity - www. ...more

Coca-Cola in iTunes giveaway

Coca-Cola is to give away 70 million free iTunes download in a new partnership with Apple in Europe. The new coca-cola.com/music website will launch next week, on 9 August, and will feature iTunes integration throughout. ...more

Chips lead AMD's financial climb

AMD remains in the black according to its latest third quarter financial results, with sales of $1.523bn and a profit of $76 million. In a nutshell: microprocessors good, memory bad. ...more