NTL to tackle email blockage

NTL has announced a number of changes designed to prevent the kind of blockages that have stopped customers being able to receive their email over the past week. The company said that 'intermittent' problems caused by their servers being unable to handle the total volume of email passing through them had resulted in some users being unable to receive messages. There have been no problems sending mail, a spokesman confirmed, nor has any email been lost. ...more

nVidia Go-es mobile

nVidia has announced availability of its power-saving GeForce 4 460 Go graphics chip for notebooks. The power-saving technology comes in the form of the Scrooge-like PowerMizer - able to dynamically switch voltage and frequency to optimise power consumption and takes into account the work share across the GPU and the main CPU of the notebook. Other features include high performance 3D engine, dedicated video processing engine and efficient memory architecture. ...more

Apple shareholders face a cost of delisting

Apple shareholders could see the value of their holdings fall considerably if the Nasdaq exchange carries through its threat to delist the company's stock. According to research by Georgetown University professor James J Angel into the effects of delisting, shareholders lost an average of 19 per cent in past cases. Apple faces delisting for failing to meet the deadline for filing its latest Form 10-Q filing, a report on the company's performance during the financial quarter to 1 July. ...more

UK MPs on spam trip to the US

Hot on the heels of the UK's opt-in spam-canning moves, a delegation of parliamentary MPs and members of the APIG (all party Internet group) are US-bound to lobby US lawmakers on legislating against spam. e-Envoy Andrew Pinder will join members of APIG, including Derek Wyatt MP, Brian White MP and Andrew Miller MP, in a three-day meeting with US Senators and officials to try and bring US spam law in line with the tighter controls being put in place in the UK and EU. In particular, they are looking for the US to agree an opt-in policy, where users opt in to receiving unsolicited correspondence, rather than having to opt out. ...more

US Govt says info request 'would crash computers'

The Bush administration is refusing to agree to a request to hand over information recording activities of foreign lobbyists to a journalist. A somewhat red-faced Department of Justice wrote back to say that copying the database would crash the system. In a letter to the Centre for Public Integrity, which made the request, Thomas McIntyre of the Justice Department which handles such requests wrote that because the department had 'experienced substantial problems with the current system, implementing such a request risks a crash that cannot be fixed and could result in a major loss of data, which would be devastating. ...more