Use your Gameboy to sew

Can you believe it? It's a cross-platform deal that would leave the average gamer in a cold sweat; Singer sewing machines are using the humble Gameboy with their new range of sewing machines. The new Singer IZEK sewing machine comes complete with a Gameboy and connection cables. The package packs a Gameboy cartridge filled full of sewing patterns. ...more

Yahoo! adds blogging to small business offering

Internet portal Yahoo! has upgraded its offerings to small business by integrating the Movable Type business blogging software with its web hosting operation. Moveable Type is a fully featured blogging service. The service has its own interface and allows a customer to create any number of blogs which might be for each workgroup or for every person in the company. ...more

Judge orders Internet sex change

One of the most tightly fought battles for a domain name has finally come to an end with a US judge ordering a domain name be returned to its rightful owner. The domain name in question was sex.com and, as you can imagine, the owner of this Web site would be the owner of the proverbial golden goose. ...more

EU broadband boom expected from 10 new members

Researchers are expecting a boom in broadband among the ten countries that recently became members of the EU. As the countries accede to the EU, they have to implement EU directives on competition within the telecommunications industry that mean incumbent companies have to open up their networks to rivals. Local loop unbundling and other measures, coupled with competition from cable TV networks, will usher in an Internet boom time for these new countries, according to the Yankee Group. ...more

Red Hat exec launches blog attack on Sun

A Red Hat executive has accused Sun of being 'pathetic' and 'doing things that benefit nobody but Microsoft' in his blog. Red Hat VP Michael Tiemann's attack comes in response to a post in the blog of Sun's COO Jonathan Schwartz, in turn responding to recent articles and comments suggesting that an agreement between Sun and Microsoft is 'probably as close as Microsoft can legally get to buying OpenOffice.org'. ...more