Bill Gates rates business blogging

Bill Gates rates blogging as the perfect medium between the impositions of email and the distance of a website. In a speech to CEOs at Microsoft's CEO Summit, Redmond's Chief Software Architect detailed how blogging - essentially an online diary - solves the problem of either relying on your audience to check your website for new content proactively or relying on intrusive emails where you decide who would like to know about the new content. Using an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed, anyone interested in knowing when there is new content on a blog gets alerted and can decide whether or not to view it. ...more

Intel chips in to Centrino with 30 per cent price cuts

Intel has introduced three new processors to its Centrino range and trimmed the prices of existing products by as much as one third. The new chips come in the form of a Pentium-M at 1.7Ghz, a low voltage version at 1. ...more

Microsoft promises public beta IE 7 early next year

Microsoft has promised a public beta of the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 in the first calendar quarter of next year. On the IE developers' blog, Dean Hachomovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team, said he was constantly being asked for a public beta and promised: 'an updated pre-release build of IE7 for Windows XP publicly - no MSDN membership required - during the first calendar quarter of 2006. 'We want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to try a pre-release version of IE7 and tell us how it works with their websites, their applications, their add-ons, and how they use the web overall,' he wrote. ...more

14-04-2001 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. Sun applies quality control to its own workforce Motorola posts a loss and hears from Tony Blair Office XP shot Clippy The Napster monster won't lie down< Director 8.5 - first review Pirates claim more than 90 per cent of the games software market UK jobs axed by Marconi Acrobat 5. ...more

Intel goes smaller and faster

Leading microchip manufacturer Intel has announced that it has developed the world's fastest and smallest transistor, which could totally revolutionise the development of computers. The new transistor is 30 nanometers across in some places and is only three atomic layers thick. The general rule is that the smaller the transistor, the faster it is and this new 30nm transistor could herald an age of sci-fi computing. ...more