Steve Jobs is highest-paid CEO

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may be famed for taking a salary of only $1 a year, but that hasn't kept him off the top spot in Forbes' list of the highest paid CEOs. Collectively, the CEOs of the 500 biggest companies in America received a pay rise of 38% last year, to average $15.2 million each. ...more

Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform

Apple is to abandon the PowerPC platform and move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007. The first Intel-based machines will be available a year from now. Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform To move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007, with the first Intel-based machines to be available a year from now Apple is to abandon the PowerPC platform and move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007. ...more

Clickmango to rise from the dead

Ill-fated health site Clickmango.com could be back, as a high-street retailer. The highly-publicised site closed down last year after it became apparent poor sales of its vitamins and other health products were never going to justify the investment, despite the presence of a cartoon Joanna Lumley on the homepage. ...more

Printers get smart

Hewlett-Packard has introduced its new Internet Enabled Supplies Ordering system which, in conjunction with smart chip toner cartridges, can automate the process of re-ordering toner cartridges for printers. When toner gets low, the Smartchip cartridges send an alert to the user. However, if the printer is equipped with HP's Embedded Web Server (EWS), then the IESO technology can be configured to order a replacement cartridge, either from HP or an approved reseller. ...more

Double trouble for WorldCom

Financial discrepancies at the troubled telecommunications firm WorldCom are now believed to be at twice the level previously reported. Financial statements for the year 2000 will have to be redone.. ...more