Six new broadband dates announced

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Web entrepreneur commits perfect cybercrime

A Seattle-based web entrepreneur has achieved the perfect political cybercrime, without breaking any laws. Newsvine.com chief executive and co-founder Mike Davidson's perfect hack was the result of what you might call a social engineering tactic in that it involved the use of one of his free templates. ...more

Internet speed record broken

The Internet2 Land Speed Record has been broken by scientists in Europe and California. The European nuclear research centre (CERN), based near Geneva, sent 1.1 Terabytes (1,100GB) of data in 30 minutes to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) at an average speed of 5. ...more

26-01-2002 Essential news of the week

Brought neatly together and presented on a plate, here is a roundup of some of the week's main news stories from the world of IT. Now DoubleClick serves an operating profit Netscape joins Microsoft court queue Dodgy IPOs come home to roost American authorities to act on violent cyber caf?s Amazon nets a profit The 'cost conscious' get faster New smaller faster mobile Intel chips, cheaper older ones New Vaio FX notebooks Don't forget, we welcome your comments. Just click on a story and go for the 'Comments' link on the right-hand side of the screen. ...more

Tesco makes British biggest online shoppers

While e-commerce businesses crumble all around, one shopping site has become a huge success: Tesco.com. According to figures from Datamonitor, UK shoppers buy their groceries online more than any other country and Tesco accounts for half of those transactions. ...more