AOL hits the small screen

BSkyB will let AOL members access their email and instant messenger buddies in a deal announced today The interactive TV service will be available on Sky Active and allow AOL users to log in with their screen name to access news, sport and weather as well as email and instant messaging services. The channel maintains the television content in a quarter-screen window, so you can message your buddies with the latest happenings in Hollyoaks. Dial-up charges are on a local call tariff, although there is a 12p 'initiating' charge on connecting to the AOL service. ...more

New Compaqs for XP

To accompany Windows XP, Compaq is launching a number of new consumer models. As well as new Presario notebooks - the 700 and 2700 - and an updated 1700, there are three new Compaq printer options and a new-form factor for Presario desktops of the 5000 and 8000 series. The high-performance Presario 2700 Notebook PC comes with the latest Pentium III processors, running at speeds up to 1. ...more

Google updates Firefox toolbar

Google has released a new version of its toolbar for the Firefox Web browser. Google Toolbar 2.0 for Firefox provides an enhanced search box that includes 'smart' features such as instant suggestions, spelling corrections, and history as you type. ...more

Apple's 30th Birthday [part 1] - Riding the whirlwind

Thirty years ago this Saturday, 1 April, Apple Computer was founded by three some-time employees of Atari and HP: Steve Jobs, Steve 'Oz' Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. No-one seems absolutely sure of the origins of the name. It has variously been suggested that the name is a tribute to The Beatles' company Apple Corps, to Alan Turing, the father of computer science who killed himself by eating an apple laced with cyanide, or to Sir Isaac Newton, who is pictured sitting beneath an Apple tree in the very first company logo. ...more

Mozilla irons last creases out of FireFox 1.5

The third release candidate version of Firefox 1.5 is now available from Mozilla. Featuring nothing new of any note, this release is designed to ensure that there are no last minute problems prior to the release of the finished version. ...more