Fast ADSL2+ Net services benefit minority

Less than half of the UK population are able to benefit from the high broadband speeds offered by ADSL2+. Although the technology, which has just been introduced at a handful of exchanges, has a top speed of 24Mbps, only a tiny minority of Net users will get anywhere near that. In fact the length of your local loop - the distance along your phone line from your modem to the DSL kit in the local exchange - must be less than 300m. ...more

Yahoo! offers unlimited storage for email

Yahoo! says it will offer unlimited e-mail storage to its quarter of a billion users, starting in May. The world's biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1GB, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail. Microsoft has a 2GB free e-mail storage limit, while Google allocates 2. ...more

Westwood plays the game

Westwood Studios company personnel have laid down the gauntlet and are challenging players to a game of Red Alert 2. Using Westwood Online, the company's own free Internet service, gamers can battle it out with five to ten members of Westwood's personnel, which will apparently include people from the Red Alert 2 development team as well. Company people will be identified by a lightning bolt next to their name in the channel list in Westwood Online. ...more

Waiter, waiter, there's no wire in my soup

A restaurant in Israel has enlisted the help of wireless waiters in a bid to improve customer service. The clientele, who mostly work in Herzilaya (Israel's silicon valley), will now be able to give their orders via a wireless handheld computer. The LAN system has been developed by Symbol Technologies to speed up the ordering process and eliminate mistakes. ...more

Borland's new model of Togetherness boosts .Net development

'Bringing affordable modelling to the masses' is Borland's claim for its new programming support tool, Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET v2.0. ...more