UK Online takes orders for ADSL2+ broadband

UK Online has begun taking orders for its ADSL2+ broadband service. Offering speeds up to 22Mbps, the service costs ?29.99 per month; usefully the ISP's website includes a line checker so that you can find out whether you are close enough to your exchange to get the higher speeds. ...more

Novell eyes UK public sector with new licensing agreements

Novell is pouncing on the UK public sector with a range of new products and transparent pricing geared to give the industry the confidence to rip out Microsoft in favour of its offerings. The first weapon of the assault is to offer its NetWare platform for free on the condition that organisations sign up to 'upgrade protection' licences - essentially agreeing to pay a regular fee to keep the software at the latest version. This will ensure that when Novell releases its flagship Open Enterprise Server suite later this year, which uses both NetWare and SUSE Linux, NetWare users will have the latest version. ...more

Olympus covers range with four new digicams

Olympus has launched four new digital cameras each one catering to the different needs of today's photographers, whether a beginner to digital photography or a more competent snapper. To kick off, the Olympus FE-115 offers up to 5 megapixels of image quality coupled with a 2.8x optical zoom, 28mb of internal memory. ...more

Abit launches AL8 Series

Abit has launched its AL8 Series of motherboards, which is based on the Intel 945P chipset and provides support for support for Pentium 4 (LGA 775) processors, dual DDR2 memory, 7.1 channel HD audio, and PCI Express graphics. Shipping with the Guru interface software to tweak and overclock settings, the latest version works with the Guru Clock peripheral, which allows you to overclock the system while playing games or running other applications in full screen mode. ...more

UK buys 450,000 iTunes

Apple sold 800,000 songs in the first week since the iTunes Music Store's launch in Europe. The UK accounted for 450,000. Apple claimed that UK sales are 16 times greater than those of iTMS's closest competitor OD2. ...more