Adopt a T-Rex!

Forget spending hours hunched over your PC stroking away playing Black & White, you can now raise your own virtual dinosaur at a new web site. It might be aimed squarely at the kiddie market, but myFrenz.com is developing virtual characters in an attempt to bring "Squeezing Wiggling, Living Creatures into Cyberspace". ...more

HP 'gambling' on battery recall

Industry experts have accused HP of risking its reputation by refusing to recall its Sony-made laptop batteries - despite Sony itself issuing a global recall. Dell, Apple, Lenovo and Toshiba are among the companies that have collectively recalled millions of laptop batteries potentially affected by a manufacturing flaw that can result in them exploding. Sony last week finally issued a global recall of its own, although its own VAIO subsidiary was still 'considering whether to participate in this voluntary replacement program,' several days later. ...more

PC Pro Awards

The winners of the PC Pro Awards 2001 were announced last night. The illustrious list of companies, found by PC Pro's readers, staff and contributors to have provided outstanding quality in the past year, includes IBM, Evesham.com, Iiyama and Microsoft. ...more

Interview: David I talks Delphi

What's in store for Delphi, why programmers should always be in control of their code and Borland's interesting relationship with Microsoft - these are some of the topics covered when we caught up with industry guru David Intersimone, the long-standing developer representative for Borland. More familiarly known as 'David I', he revels in the job title of 'Chief Evangelist', but rather more prosaically is Borland's VP of Developer Relations. He was speaking at DCON (Delphi Developers conference) 2003 in what is Borland's 20th anniversary. ...more

Investors pile in to social networks

Nowadays any site that can claim to be involved in 'social networking' with a user base in six figures or more is in demand by investors. Two very different sites have both received big cash injections from venture capitalists hoping to see huge returns when the companies behind them are either bought by one of the major technology companies on the Internet or offer themselves in an IPO. The venture capital fund Benchmark Capital Europe has sunk $15 million in the online start-up Bebo. ...more