CD-R prices to skyrocket

One of the big PC success stories in recent years is blank CD media. Using a CD burner, you can easily use it to make audio CDs or efficiently archive your computer data. The honeymoon, however, could soon be over as media prices look set to rise dramatically. ...more

Budget processor hits 2GHz barrier

The Intel Celeron processor, targeted at budget system, has achieved the milestone of clocking 2GHz. As well as achieving two billion processor cycles per second, the new model features a 400MHz system bus, 478-pin packaging and 128K of L2 cache. It's manufactured on Intel's 0. ...more

mmO2 sells O2 Netherlands

mmO2 has announced that it has sold its Dutch subsidiary, O2 Netherlands. The company has been bought for ?25m (?16m) in cash by Greenfield Capital Partners, a corporate finance group with interests in the telecoms sector. The price is considerably less than the company paid (?266m) for its 3G licence alone. ...more

Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter

Microsoft will announce the release of Windows 2000 Datacenter at a press conference in San Fransisco later today. The heavyweight version of the OS will be targeted at the high-end Unix server market, running e-commerce Web sites and large-scale applications. The product, already several months behind its summer release date, can handle upto 32 processors and 64GB of memory. ...more

Google offers free WiFi to San Francisco

Google has offered to provide the city of San Francisco with blanket wireless Internet coverage - for free. This not only means free to the people who use it, but most attractively, free to the taxpayers of San Francisco. The surprise move is another signal that the company intends to be much more than a search engine and provider of information - lucrative as it is. ...more