Google restarts Print

Google has ended its self-imposed moratorium on scanning books. The company ceased the digitising the libraries of its 'Google Print' partners in August. The moratorium was called following complaints by publishers and copyright holders. ...more

Avatars for all

You've probably already heard of avatars, a kind of digital persona. Well, Stratumsoft has given the avatar an intelligent personality, and could revolutionise online shopping and data gathering. EVAAs, or Electronic Virtual Assistants/Artistes, are the front end of a sophisticated intelligence engine that gives the avatar the ability to respond to natural language questions and intelligently search databases. ...more

Mozilla updates Firefox and Thunderbird clients

Mozilla has released new versions of its Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email client to fix problems introduced the previous updates. Versions 1.0. ...more

IDC sees solid PC market in 2H 2002 and growth of 8 per cent in 2003

International Data Corporation (IDC) expects worldwide PC shipments to grow just over 1 per cent in 2002 and more than 8 per cent growth in 2003, based on strong public sector spending and continued improvement in the consumer market. Total shipments in 2002 are expected to reach 136.2 million, up 1. ...more

Office 2004 is Microsoft's best Mac software ever, Apple MD

The managing director of Apple UK and Ireland last night hailed Office 2004 as the best product Microsoft has ever made for the Mac. Mark Rogers was speaking at the London launch of the business software suite, which also included a demonstration of some of the - it has to be said - impressive new features. Questioned beforehand about Apple's own productivity suite, AppleWorks, Rogers said that the company would have to take a look at what it wanted to do with the software, which is supplied with all consumer and education Macs, over the next six to 12 months. ...more