And also today (19-Mar-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Low power Pentium III As well as its introduction of 1GHz Pentium III processors for notebooks, Intel has added a faster processor to its low-power family of Pentium IIIs. The "Low Power at 700-MHz" is designed for embedded applications where heat and constrained space are important factors. ...more

World's smallest' printer fits in your hand

The 'world's smallest self-contained mobile printer' is about the size of a PDA. The m-PRINT measures just 158mm long, 17.5mm deep and 97mm wide and weighs 300g. ...more

Firefox bug causes breakup with fianc

Step 9 is 'Break-up with fianc?', but steps 1 to 8 detail a bug in Firefox's password manager submitted to Mozilla's Bugzilla flaw reporting service. According to the details of the bug, Firefox isn't very good at keeping details between XP accounts separate, causing the account holders in this case to, well, separate. Just how this particular privacy issue ended up in a relationship breakdown emerges from the bug report. ...more

Tetris comes to chip and pin terminals

Researchers at Cambridge University have managed to hack tamper-resistant chip and pin terminals so they can play a game of Tetris. Stephen Murdoch and Saar Drimer, researchers at the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory managed to open up the terminal and replace most of the inner workings that control the screen, card reader and keypad. 'Steven suggested that in order to show that it is completely under our control, we should make it play Tetris (similarly to the guys who made a voting machine play chess),' said Drimer on their blog. ...more

Wanadoo wants to become Orange

A little over a year since it changed the name of its UK ISP from Freeserve to Wanadoo, France Telecom is to spend another 200mn Euros rebranding it as Orange. The change will bring together the company's Internet offerings and its Orange mobile phone services under a single name. Ultimately consumers will be able to get all their telecoms and Internet services from a single supplier as the various arms of France Telecom converge. ...more