And also today (3-May-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Dell to recall Inspiron 5000s Dell is to recall over 280,000 notebook batteries. The Inspiron 5000 and 5000(e) models are affected. ...more

Google.com switches UK users to .co.uk

British visitors to Google.com are being automatically redirected to Google UK. From there, if you really, really want Google. ...more

Pensioner allergic to microchips

It has been revealed that a 79-year-old pensioner from Bristol is suffering from a unique allergy... ...more

Airlines experiencing the pressure of technology security threats

Four-fifths of major airlines feel under increased pressure to respond to technology-related security threats, according to new research. The survey of 157 of senior business and IT professionals in the airline and air freight business was carried out by Loudhouse Research. It found that 80 per cent of respondents said that the pressure to respond to security threats is increasing within their businesses. ...more

IDF Fall 2003: Next-gen Centrino processor takes a bow

Intel has been showcasing its next-generation processor, which will appear under the Centrino banner. Codenamed Dothan, it will replace the Banias core of the current Pentium-M processor. It contains 140 million transistors, 2MB of level 2 cache, improved register data retrieval and has a more efficient data pre-fetcher. ...more