Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Seasonal greetings to all our readers! Here's wishing health and happiness to all our readers. We hope you have a nice Christmas break. Particular thanks to those of you who have contributed to the site - posters in the forum, the people who have left comments on news stories, or those who have highlighted any problems on the site. ...more

LaCie introduces DVD/CD duplicator

LaCie has introduced a new DVD and CD duplicator capable of making up to five simultaneous disk copies. The metallic tower contains one 16x40x DVD/CD-ROM drive and five combined 4x DVD-RW and 16x CD-RW drives and automatically recognises the various formats. An LCD display gives access to the various settings. ...more

BT Fusion service gets WiFi phones

BT has announced WiFi phones for its BT Fusion converged mobile/fixed line service. The WiFi-ready Nokia 6136, Motorola A910 and Samsung P200 handsets will be available from the Phones4U network of 400 high street shops tomorrow. They will give Fusion users the ability to not only make cheap calls when wirelessly connected to the Internet at home, but also at any of BT's OpenZone hotspots and Wireless Cities. ...more

Sub-?20 broadband without the cap

NDO is the latest ISP to announce a 512Kbit/sec broadband service for less than ?20, but unlike most of the others it is doing so without imposing any limit on usage or bandwidth. It is targetting other ISPs' existing broadband customers with two migration offers. Home500 Migration is the 512Kbit, ?19. ...more

Novell virtualises SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Novell has launched version 10 of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 Novell is pushing SLES 10 on a number of fronts. First it includes SLED 10 - the desktop version - along with Novell's AppArmor security product for application-level security. Additionally, SLES 10 boasts virtualisation technologies in the form of the open-source Xen 3. ...more