?17.99 broadband offer ends today

Little-known ISP Timewarp are offering ADSL broadband for just ?17.99 per month - but the offer ends at 5pm today. The offer carries a ?58. ...more

Europe needs to bridge the digital divide

Europe needs to do more to accelerate the broadband revolution according to a report by the European Commission. The document 'Bridging the Broadband Gap' says that Europe should pull together EU telecoms legislation and structural and rural policy to ensure that the more remote and rural areas of the Union are not left behind in the rush to faster Internet access speeds and associated applications. The European Commission reports that the broadband penetration rate at the end of 2005 is estimated at 13 per cent of the population, which equates to about 25 per cent of households, reaching almost 60 million lines throughout the EU. ...more

Dusting down Dot Museum

Get ready for .museum domain names. Another of the seven new Top Level Domains that were sanctioned last year, is set to emerge. ...more

Sweden's Pirate Party cut short

Sweden's recently formed Pirate Party is expected to win 33,000 votes in the country's national elections, failing to gain the one per cent of the total vote that it needed to gain financial support from the state at future polls. Its share of around 0.6 per cent is also long way short of the four per cent that would have entitled it to a seat in parliament. ...more

IBM ships new Z9 mainframes

IBM has started shipments of its latest line of mainframe computers on schedule. The new z9 range of machines can process up to one billion transactions per day, which gives it twice the performance of the previous generation of big iron claims IBM. The new machine has a host of security features intended to appeal to government and large corporate customers. ...more