Seven million UK homes now online

A new report from Oftel reveals that the UK has embraced new technology with a passion with steady increases in Internet use and the take up of digital television. The report states that seven million homes (around 28 per cent) are now connected to the Internet, with almost a million homes going online in the three months to August and over one million home Internet users using unmetered packages to access the net. The uptake of digital TV has risen by 10 per cent in the last three months with over 5. ...more

IBM raises curtain on 10GHz chip

IBM has unveiled the technology that will allow it to produce PowerPC chips with speeds up to 10GHz. IBM's Web site reports that, "The new technology, named CMOS 9S, unites.. ...more

Microsoft repositions itself for the enterprise

"Software for the Agile Business" is Microsoft's theme for a new $200m advertising campaign targeted at enterprise users. Microsoft describes the move as "a major business positioning initiative" designed to emphasis the benefits of .NET for large-scale enterprises. ...more

The phoenix-like Boo rises again

Boo.com rises today from the ashes of its much-publicised demise, thanks to US online clothes firm Fashionmall, which snapped up the rights to the Boo name. It hopes to capitalise on the familiarity of the name with 18 to 30-year-olds, claiming that even when the site had gone under, it was still receiving 35,000 hits a week. ...more

BT forces ISPs to stump up activation fee

BT Wholesale's halving of its ADSL activation fee comes to an end this month, much to the disappointment of ISPs and indeed consumers, to whom the promotional discount has been passed on. BT Wholesale introduced a promotional offer earlier this year that halved the ?50 fee the company charges to activate an ADSL connection. It comes to an end on 31 March and although BT has not returned requests for comment, Tiscali tells us that the charge is to be re-instated. ...more