Windows XP for a under a tenner

Available now, for patient owners of 300MHz, 128Mb, 2Gb systems. Windows XP is available in the form of a preview pack for ?9.99. ...more

Oftel to slash BT's unmetered dial-up

Oftel has proposed a 17 per cent price cut to the FRIACO unmetered wholesale product it offers to ISPs. When BT first introduced FRIACO (Fixed Rate Internet Access Call Origination) to allow ISPs to offer unmetered dial-up access, it included in the wholesale costs charges for call routing and managing the extra traffic on the network. But by December 2001, BT had introduced network improvements that made these services unnecessary. ...more

Orange adds Motorola to Microsoft handset range

Orange has announced it is to offer the Motorola MPx200 in the UK, adding to its Microsoft-based handset range which, it says, have been 'the most successful phones ever in terms of data usage'. The MPx200 is the third Smartphone-based handset from Orange, which was the first operator to offer such a phone, last October - the Orange SPV. A spokesperson for the company told us that the Smartphone handsets are 'the most successful phones ever in terms of data usage'. ...more

Indie label group says combined singles/download chart is flawed

The Association of Independent Music (AIM) has called on the Office of Fair Trading to delay the launch of the first combined singles chart on Sunday. AIM, which represents independent labels, says that the system for monitoring the gathering of chart data is seriously flawed and that many independent labels are not represented in key downloads sites. 'Like everyone else I'm keen to see download data included but at the moment the whole supply chain is insufficiently developed,' said Alison Wenham, CEO of AIM. ...more

Intel unwraps value chips

Celeron chips clocked at 900Mhz and a mobile version at 850Mhz are now available, hard on the heels of the 1.8Ghz and 1.6Ghz P4 releases. ...more