Napster revamps its online music service

Napster has given its online music service a makeover in the wake of the success of its Napster To Go subscription service, launched last month. iTunes's noisiest rival in the music downloads market is looking to counter Apple's biggest asset, the iPod, by raising the profiles of rival, Napster-compatible players. To this end it has opened the Napster Store selling the 'latest in MP3 players', though at the moment that amounts to a choice of nine Creative models. ...more

Thomson Travel launch new website

The Thomson Travel Group has launched a new travel site called www.skydeals.co. ...more

American Presidential e-lections

The American states of California and Arizona are to conduct the November Presidential Elections online. VoteHere.net and Compaq have joined forces to provide complete solutions to state sponsored online voting pilots. ...more

HP claims PC top spot

Last year's HP-Compaq merger took the new company to the top of the PC sales league for 2002, according to Gartner Dataquest. Despite selling 9.3 per cent fewer computers than the two separate companies managed in 2001, HP claimed 16. ...more

Lycos runs up white flag in DoS war on spammers

After a week of trading packet requests across the internet with spammers, Lycos Europe has pulled down its www.makelovenotspam.com service. ...more