New platform heralds cut price Internet radio

If you haven't yet bought a wireless Internet radio, just hold out a year longer. A new platform could drastically reduce prices to around ?30 or ?40. At next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Cambridge Consultants is demonstrating the technology, which includes just two integrated circuits: an 802. ...more

Microsoft

Microsoft shapes the world of computing, like no other company. We roundup the latest moves from the software giant. ? Microsoft security: moderate to incomplete ? EU official given leave to join Microsoft ? MSN 8 launches in the UK ? Microsoft to watch over itself ? Ballmer promises 'responsible' Microsoft ? PalmSource sends defiant message to Microsoft ? What's new in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition? ? Windows XP Tablet PC Edition - a second opinion ? Microsoft holds on to fighting fund ? BT allies with Microsoft for broadband onslaught ? Microsoft still faces EU sanction threat ? Microsoft escapes stiffer penalties ? Microsoft upgrades Windows Media Player 9 Series ? Microsoft warns of Hallowe'en security issues ? XP in embedded form gets its SP1 ? Beta code of 'Office 11' emerges &   ? Microsoft Smartphone unveiled ? MSN names UK pricing ? Microsoft, Panasonic propose (another) CD standard ? Microsoft extends product lifecycle ? The score for MS patches: Moderate 2 Critical 1 ? Microsoft announces Bluetooth desktop ? Intel and Microsoft add a pinch of Salt to speech apps ? Office 11 due within a month ? Microsoft extends Office with XML-based XDocs ? New content served up by Microsoft ? Windows XP braced for Bluetooth ? Exclusive interview: Windows . ...more

Microsoft fires broadside at Novell Netware

What Redmond giveth, Redmond taketh away. Barely a week after settling an anti-trust suit with Novell over unfair practices designed to drive Netware out of the Enterprise and a few days since Novell slapped in a similar suit making similar allegations over WordPerfect, Microsoft has fired a broadside at Novell by offering US Netware customers an attractive deal to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft is offering wavering Netware users a range of goodies including tools, prescriptive guidance, training and technical support to help them migrate to Windows Server 2003. ...more

Billy Bragg protests Bebo's Ts and Cs

Having persuaded the MySpace website to alter its claims to the rights of music it hosts, Billy Bragg has urged rival social networking site Bebo to do the same. During a live web chat on MediaGuardian.co. ...more

Zafi.b virus is the most virulent in August

Antivirus vendors have released their figures for virus activity last month showing new viruses but a quiet month for outbreaks. Kaspersky Labs said that the normally danger-fraught August - which last year saw PC users running the perils of SoBig, Blaster and Mimail - turned out to be an unusually quiet month. Sophos put the Zafi. ...more