Wikipedia adds restrictions to thwart vandals

Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has announced changes to the way new entries can be created. Users will now be required to register before creating a new article. This follows an entry in which a former aide to Robert Kennedy was implicated in his assassination. ...more

Analyst puts Apple rumours in perspective

Ultra-portable Macs, in-flight iTunes and touch-screen iPods are among the least likely rumoured Apple product releases, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. In a report to investors, the analyst ranked recent Apple rumours from the most likely through to the utterly spurious. 'Almost certain' are OS X 10. ...more

States argue RealPlayer/Navigator parallel

Modular Windows: it should be and it could be. A lawyer for the states arguing for more severe penalties against Microsoft yesterday produced evidence that Microsoft had actively embedded and enhanced its Media player within Windows as a direct effort to cut out RealNetworks' RealPlayer and had likened the strategy to that used against Netscape. In other testimony, Microsoft's computer expert, a professor at the MIT, back-tracked on a previous assertion that producing a modular version of Windows was probably impossible. ...more

Leopard leaks onto the Net

Copies of the Leopard preview handed out to Mac developers last week have begun leak onto the Internet. The 9A241 build of APPLE.MAC. ...more

And also today (3-May-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Dell to recall Inspiron 5000s Dell is to recall over 280,000 notebook batteries. The Inspiron 5000 and 5000(e) models are affected. ...more