Waitrose adds broadband to its shopping basket

Waitrose has become the first supermarket chain to offer broadband access. The posh person's grocer will be offering a 512K service for ?27.99 a month. ...more

City of London to go WiFi

The City of London, one of the biggest financial centres in the world, is to be provided with comprehensive wireless coverage over the entire area. The aim is to make the Square Mile the biggest wireless zone in Europe. The system is planned to launch in the next few weeks in selected parts of the City with full coverage expected over the next six months. ...more

Do you believe in DJ virus

A new virus has been discovered that pays tribute to dance DJ Marco V. Order.A drops the lyrics from the song "Godd" by Marco V to the hard drive in a file called Chaos. ...more

Sobig-F tops annual virus chart

Sophos has announced its chart of virus activity for the year 2003, with August's Sobig-F accounting for 19.9 per cent of reports. Hot on the heels of Blaster and Nachi, Sobig-F proved so rapacious that Sophos was receiving 400,000 copies a day - and not reports from worried users, but cases where a Sophos email address was in an infected computer's contact list. ...more

IP telephony receives Intel boost

Network chips promote home networks and VoIP apps. Intel has unveiled three new network processors that offer WAN and LAN interfaces as well as VoIP (Voice over IP) and security technologies. Intel has also updated its Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) to version 3. ...more