Mr President, I can not tell a lie

With the US elections almost over, new software has been used to test which of the candidates has talked with biggest forked tongue. A piece of software called Truster has the supposed ability to root out little white lies from those big black ones! Time magazine recently routed the two presidential candidates' voices through the software while they were taking part in a debate and the results proved interesting reading. It seems that Al Gore could only muster 23 false statements during the test while George W Bush scored an impressive 57 fibs. ...more

Independent computer retailers offer best overall service - Which?

Britain's high street retailers of computers fare badly in comparison with small independent retailers, according to a new report by the consumer group Which? The report concludes that the indies not only provide better support but are a top of the chart when it came to overall service as well. The report will make for gloomy reading at some of Britain's biggest retailers. The Dixons Group fared particularly badly with its Dixons and Currys, and flagship computer retailer PC World, considered to offer a worse overall service than toys megastore Toys 'R' Us. ...more

Mozilla 1.4, Netscape 7.1 released

New versions of both the Mozilla and Netscape Web browsers have been released. Neither carries a wealth of features that haven't been seen before, and are on the whole fairly similar, which is not surprising since they are based on the same code. Mozilla 1. ...more

Microsoft responds to EC over anti-trust settlement claims

Microsoft is fighting its corner on anti-trust issues against the European Commission. Under the shadow of fines of up to €2 million a day for non-compliance with the original settlement, it claims to have answered - on a deadline day - the European complaints. Microsoft was originally fined a record €497 million by the European Commission in March 2004, and was ordered to licence important parts of the source code for Windows Server to competitors. ...more

MySQL gets itself into a Cluster

MySQL, the world's most popular open source database manager is continuing its march into the Enterprise market with the introduction of MySQL Cluster. The addition of clustering architecture to the product now means that it can deliver 99.999 per cent availability, making it suitable for business critical applications says developers MySQL AB. ...more