Media Player forces WinXP upgrade

Microsoft has announced that future editions of Media Player will require an upgrade to Windows XP. Version 8.0 of the multimedia creation and play-back software will need users to have XP, the latest consumer Windows operating system, now in beta testing and due out later this year. ...more

Correction: Sender ID logo

A news article entitled 'Microsoft and AOL agree to agree on anti-spoofing Sender-ID technology' published yesterday incorrectly used a Sender ID logo which had no association with the subject of the piece. The logo used belongs to security company Emailkey.com. ...more

Intel unwraps value chips

Celeron chips clocked at 900Mhz and a mobile version at 850Mhz are now available, hard on the heels of the 1.8Ghz and 1.6Ghz P4 releases. ...more

Small businesses offered six months of free hosting

Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet is offering UK small businesses six months of free hosting and a free .co.uk domain name. ...more

3G due in 2003, says Nokia

Never fear, 3G will be here. Or so says Nokia, but then it would. In an interview with Reuters at CeBIT in Germany, Nokia's senior vice president, JT Bergqvist, said that high-speed third-generation mobile networks will be up and running by early 2003. ...more