Microsoft shuts Windows 95

Microsoft is no longer issuing licences to offer its successful Windows 95 OS with PCs, in a bid to push Windows 2000 into wider use among businesses and individuals. Major vendors, such as Dell, has posted notification on its site saying that, beginning next year, the company will not sell systems with the OS factory-installed. Only a select few small vendors will be able to offer the OS on specific request. ...more

SunnComm changes its DRM ways

Chastised copyright-protection technology company SunnComm has made public its efforts to fix security concerns over its MediaMax software. The company's announcement is in response to an open letter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation calling on it to be more transparent and to ensure consumers' rights and security are not considered the collateral damage associated with protecting copyright content. As such, SunnComm has stated that all future versions of its MediaMax software will only install if the user accepts the end user licence agreement presented when a music CD with this software is inserted into a computer. ...more

ASA provides new definition of 'unlimited' broadband

The Advertising Standards Authority appears to have established a new definition of 'unlimited', after it approved Vodafone's use of the word to describe an Internet access package with a fair usage capacity of just 1GB. The mobile phone network operator had claimed in a brochure advertising its Vodafone Data Unlimited service that the amount of data that could be downloaded each month was 'unlimited', before qualifying it by stating: 'fair usage of 1GB applies'. The service provides Internet access over its mobile network. ...more

Hitachi flattens its chips

Microchips seem to be getting smaller by the week and this week is no exception with the news that Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has just announced that its developed the world's smallest integrated circuit. The new chip is only 0.4 x 0. ...more

AMD moves to 0.13

AMD makes the transition to 0.13 micron technology for its Athlon processors. Another CeBIT announcement from AMD involves the shipping, later this month, of AMD Athlon XP processors based on a 0. ...more