Server and mobile processors carry the quarter for Intel

Record server and mobile microprocessor shipments have balanced flatter desktop revenues for Intel in its latest quarterly results. The company has reported revenues of $8.5bn, an eight per cent increase on the same period a year ago. ...more

Half UK households are Net-connected, says Oftel

Oftel has announced that half of UK households are connected to the Internet, with a million set to make the broadband leap in the next year. However, Oftel is counting always-on services of 128Kbits/sec and greater, which offer prices comparable to unmetered dial-up, as broadband. With the cheapest dial-up and below average broadband tariffs in the European countries surveyed, the UK take-up of the Internet continues apace: 12. ...more

Annual Imagine Cup gets underway

Entries are being invited for this year's software design and development competition, the Imagine Cup, which carries a ?50,000 prize fund. Now in its third year, the Microsoft-sponsored programming competition has now gained backing from BT, Capgemini and the venture capitalists 3i. It is a worldwide competition - with the grand final due to be held in Yokohoma, Japan in July - but first a UK entrant has to be selected. ...more

IDF Fall 2006: Intel chief - 'I hate AMD'

He didn't say it out loud, but he typed it out loud. And he did it in a keynote this morning in front of a couple of thousand assembled IDF attendees. Intel's Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group was in full stage-roleplay mode. ...more

Crown Prosecution Service targets the Internet

The Crown Prosecution Service has outlined its commitment to combatting crime on the Internet. At a conference on Child Pornography yesterday, the group proposed making possession of violent pornographic material a criminal offence. In addition, a new Centre for Child Protection on the Internet was announced that will support both the police and the child protection authorities in their efforts to target paedophiles trafficking illegal images across the Internet. ...more