Dell overtakes Compaq in PC market

Dell Computer has ousted Compaq as the leading supplier worldwide of PCs. Compaq has led the field since the early 1990s, but Dells' recent aggressive pricing policies have succeeded in pushing its market share up from 9.9 per cent to 12. ...more

Google's Search History reveals full Web trail

Google has expanded its Search History service so you can track track not only your Web searches but also every page on the Internet that you visit. To reflect the change, the service has been renamed Google Web History. Web History is available to anyone with Google Toolbar installed in their browser and the PageRank feature enabled. ...more

Freeserve denies cheap broadband to tempt switchers

Freeserve is not commenting on a report that it offered an existing customer a cut in the price of their broadband connection to stop them switching to another ISP. The customer told The Register that, 'The [cancellations] advisor offered to supply my service for ?19.99 if I stayed with Freeserve. ...more

Viruses prefer IRC

A spate of four new viruses identified by Sophos around last weekend show chat app IRC the preferred means of pulling your computer's strings. Using IRC channels to gain remote access to a computer is not new, but these days its becoming a uniform component. Senior security consultant at Sophos, Carole Theriault, told us: 'The exploitation of chat systems such as IRC has grown in the last few years. ...more

Adobe revenues up, Warnock retires

Adobe has announced that its revenues for the first fiscal quarter of 2001 were $329 million, up 17 per cent year over year. However, the company is adjusting its targets for the remainder of 2001, anticipating 15 per cent year over year growth for the second quarter and not providing revenue targets for the second half of the year, due, says the press release, to, "the challenging an uncertain economic environment". Adobe has also announced that its co-founder John Warnock is to retire. ...more