Olympus covers range with four new digicams

Olympus has launched four new digital cameras each one catering to the different needs of today's photographers, whether a beginner to digital photography or a more competent snapper. To kick off, the Olympus FE-115 offers up to 5 megapixels of image quality coupled with a 2.8x optical zoom, 28mb of internal memory. ...more

Nominet warns over domain registrations company

Nominet, the UK's official national Registry for Domain names, has taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about a company cold-calling businesses and offering to 'register' domains or risk losing them. The Registry says it has received a 'flood of complaints' about a company called Domain Registrar Services Limited. The company is particularly concerned that businesses are not misled into thinking that DRS is part of, or works with, Nominet. ...more

AltaVista: the fall-out

AltaVista's announcement that it is canning its unmetered Internet access service has prompted a flurry of activity. Early this week Andy Mitchell, MD of AltaVista UK, blamed the demise of his company's service on BT's failure to provide flat-rate circuits to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), a claim dismissed by BT as "ridiculous". Oftel, the telecommunications regulator, has now entered the fray in support of BT, insisting that its current offer of a wholesale flat-rate product "provides a sound basis to promote competition in unmetered Internet access. ...more

Windows source code leaked onto the Internet

The tightly guarded source code for the Windows operating system has been leaked onto the internet, it has been revealed. The code is said to consist of parts of the Windows 2000 and Windows NT versions of the OS. Microsoft says that it doesn't know how the code appeared on the internet but that the company was made aware of it on Thursday. ...more

06-04-2002 Essential news of the week

Brought neatly together and presented on a plate, here is a roundup of some of the week's main news stories from the world of IT. AOL puts the case for Windows Hollywood seeks digital standard Mobile lip-service A bus pass to the Internet The P4 just got faster AOL, BTOpenworld raise dial-up prices Sony on a chip Hewlett-Packard board to oust Walter Hewlett Everything is cool in HP's future Don't forget, we welcome your comments. Just click on a story and go for the 'Comments' link on the right-hand side of the screen. ...more