Intel clocks new mobile processors

Hot on the heels of price reductions for mobile processors, Intel releases six new processors for notebooks. It has also announced an integrated graphics chipset for its mobile processor family, the Intel 852GM chipset. The six new processors include a new top-of the range Mobile Pentium 4, clocking 2. ...more

Virgin on track to deliver Wi-Fi

Virgin Trains is the latest operator to jump on the Wi-Fi bandwagon to enhance passenger satisfaction. It plans to equip its high-speed fleet on West Coast Main Line routes with Wi-Fi from next year. The service will be of particular benefit to business users who are keen to maximise productivity by reading and responding to emails as well as browsing the web. ...more

Broadband still too expensive

Price cuts over better content - that's the key to broadband ubiquity. With an overwhelming 94 per cent, voters on our recent poll plumped for price cuts as the factor that would make them sign up for ADSL en masse. The poll asked whether better content or cheaper prices were the key contributing elements to signing up to broadband. ...more

Broadband continues its UK ascent

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that always-on broadband connections now account for more than five per cent of Net-access in the UK. The 5.3 per cent figure for ADSL access in the UK shows a 15. ...more

W3C to give the Web more meaning

The body that controls Internet standards, the W3C, continues its push to add meaning to Web documents. As part of a wider Semantic Web project it has officially recommended the adoption of two new standards: Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Ontology Web Language (OWL). The goal is help better manage the storage of information on the Web so that its retrieval can be automated more effectively, for example by intelligent agents with specific search briefs. ...more