Epson looks for 'typical' British family to do an 'Osbournes'

Imaging specialist, Epson is looking for a 'typical' British family to star in a worldwide reality show live on the Internet. For over three months, Epson cameras will follow the family around and record their every move beginning March 2004. Epson threatens. ...more

Academics crack Euro GPS satellite

Signals from Europe's answer to the US GPS satellite system have been cracked by a team of American researchers led by professor Mark Psiaki of Cornell University. The ?2.3bn project Galileo is designed to outshine the US GPS satellite constellation with far greater accuracy, and has also been billed as being able to pay for itself, as governments and the private sector would be willing to pay for access to pin-point location services. ...more

eBay launches Express marketplace

Auction site eBay has officially thrown open the doors to its fixed price marketplace to be known as eBay Express. Although eBay has featured the 'Buy It Now' button on its lists of items for sale for some years now, eBay Express puts all of the fixed price non-auction items in one place to make it easier for customers to shop immediately rather than wait to see if their bid has been successful. Because eBay is now putting all of its merchants in one place, the site can, for the first time provide a shopping trolley for customers to browse around and purchase altogether at the check out. ...more

Microsoft upgrades Windows Server 2003 with R2

Microsoft has released to manufacturing an update to its flagship server system - Windows Server 2003 R2. While the CDs are being pressed the code will also appear on MSDN. Redmond declares the system is all about 'optimising infrastructure' rather than particular bells and whistles of new features. ...more

AOL employee sells 92 million email addresses to spammer

An AOL employee has been arrested and charged with stealing 92 million email addresses and selling them on to spammers according to the LA Times. 24 year old Jason Smathers, a software engineer with the company and an accomplice, Sean Dunaway an email marketer, have been accused of breaking fraud and anti-spam laws. Federal investigators say that Smathers sold the email addresses of every AOL subscriber as of May 2003 to Dunaway who used the list to promote his online gambling business as well as selling the names on to other spammers. ...more