Updated: ISPs named for extended broadband test

A preliminary list of the ISPs that are participating in BT's extended reach broadband trials has been released. The trials are designed to see whether BT can successfully extend the range of current broadband services to include homes and businesses that are currently too far (more than 5.5km) from ADSL-enabled exchanges. ...more

Successor to the Mozilla Internet suite gets an alpha

The SeaMonkey Council has released the first alpha of its successor to the Mozilla Internet Software suite Mozilla's decided to halt development of the suite earlier this year in favour of the standalone applications Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird. SeaMonkey picks up where they left off. The browser component uses the same code base as the Firefox 1. ...more

US Marines play Operation Flashpoint

Life imitates art imitates soldiers... ...more

Fujitsu goes mission critical with Linux

Fujitsu has backed Linux for mission critical servers with its new Primequest server line. Based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, the servers can be installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ASv.4 or Novell/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. ...more

Labour squats Howard domains

A Conservative MP has written to the Electoral Commission complaining about the Labour party cyber-squatting on domain names using the name of Michael Howard, the leader of the opposition. Michael Fabricant, the MP for Litchfield, condemned the Labour party as 'cyber-hypocrites' and says the practice is against official government policy. The sites are www. ...more