Lloyds' euro rollout starts in Spain

Lloyds TSB has launched its online bank, evolvebank.com, in Spain today, ahead of its UK launch. Lloyds has watched from the sidelines the troubles that have hit other online banking ventures and so has proceeded with a cautious rollout - the service has been available to a controlled sample of 100 Spaniards in the last couple of months. ...more

No escape for Netscape

Research from OneStat.com offers a snapshot of the global browser market for September, dominated by IE and with Netscape almost doubling its usage in the four months from June. Even so, nearly twice very little, is not very much at all. ...more

Apple gets flash with 1GB iPod shuffle

Apple has moved to extend its dominance of the portable music player market with the unveiling of its first flash memory model - the iPod shuffle. The player is available with either 512MB and 1GB of memory, enough to store 120 or 240 songs encoded in 128-bit AAC. It has a 12-hour rechargeable battery, is 8. ...more

05-05-2001 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. Microsoft guns for Open Source BT tries to speed up ADSL, industry unconvinced 60GB hard drive with free video editing Apple to stop selling CRT displays BT moves out of Japan, sells to Vodafone XML solidifying as a standard Microsoft patches IIS buffer overflow flaw New faster, lighter, sleeker iBooks Ensure you're paying the cheapest phone bills Reptiles will always survive, why not IBM systems? 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

BT reports record broadband sign-ups

BT has announced record numbers of subscribers for its wholesale broadband division. The company said that it added more than 600,000 new connections for the quarter ended 30 September, taking the figure to nigh on 3.3 million subscriptions in total. ...more