Dodgy reliability costs UK E-Business ?30 million a month

Five per cent of UK Web sites had significant 'technical problems' and were unavailable for three per cent of the time during January according to web monitoring service Site Confidence. Although it doesn't say whether all of these companies were e-commerce businesses, using figures from analysts Forrester, Site Confidence reckons this cost .co. ...more

Sober virus resurfaces

Security companies are warning of a new variant of the bi-lingual Sober email worm. F-Secure says Sober-M was being spammed out last night in a bid to seed an epidemic. Sophos too reports small numbers of infections early this morning. ...more

Turn your Palm into a robot

If you own a Palm computer, you might be wondering what's coming next for this versatile little machine. Well, a project at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in the US has resulted in the first Palm-powered robot. For around $260 (about ?180), you can turn your PDA into a basic wheeled robot - in other words, you will not be creating something as complex as R2D2, just a basic device that scuttles around. ...more

Pay-as-you-go broadband piped to businesses by Lixxus

Lixxus is taking its pay-as-you-go broadband offering to businesses. Having launched its service for consumers, where you are charged by the megabyte, rather than the same bill each month, Lixxus is claiming it can do the same for the business world, and beat BT on prices no matter what the usage is. 'Broadband is the fastest growing sector in the industry, and we are offering SMEs an entirely unique and cost effective way to buy it,' commented Joe Kelly, Lixxus Managing Director. ...more

palmOne LifeDrive isLaunched

palmOne has finally officially unveiled the latest addition to its PDA line-up, the LifeDrive. As we first reported in April, the LifeDrive will be the first PDA with a hard drive (a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive to be precise), making it a viable option for storing photos, short video clips and music. The expansion slot supports SD, SDIO and MultiMediaCard formats for transferring photos from a camera. ...more