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 speeds up chips to 20GHz with tiny transistors

Intel has developed a tiny transistor that will allow processors to reach speeds of 20GHz, the company said this weekend. The new transistors measure only 0.02 microns in size whereas the smallest transistors used in chips today measure 0. ...more

US CIOs still cautious

US IT Managers still expect budgets to grow a little this year, although less than they said six months ago. Spending is also concentrated on justifying current spending. These are the results of IT market analysts Aberdeen Inc's six monthly survey into trends among 150 CIOs in the US. ...more

Sun sets on $1billion loss

Sun Microsystems has announced that it is to take a $1 billion hit on its fourth quarter 2003 earnings. This is due to a $1,051 million tax charge that, the company estimates, will plunge the system builder deep into the red this quarter. According to US law a company can defer taxes whilst it is making losses to some time in the future when (hopefully) it is back in the black. ...more

Internet Explorer 7 heading for Automatic Update distribution

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 will be distributed as a 'high priority update via Automatic Updates' (AU), according to an announcement made in the IE7 developers' blog. It says that IE7 will ship in Windows XP in Q4 of this year, shortly followed by AU distribution to all 'genuine Windows customers'. Installation of the new browser will not be compulsory. ...more