City of Bath to host wireless experiment

The City of Bath, more famous for its Roman Spa and Jane Austen than the cutting edge of the information society, is to host a series of experiments to test new city-wide services based on wireless technology. The University of Bath is to conduct a research project which will see the historic city offer a range of technologies that could affect the direction of future wireless applications. Costing $1. ...more

Sony to trial film download service for PSP

A new online service from Sony could pose a threat to Apple's video download dominance. Sony is planning to allow owners of its PlayStation Portable games console to download feature films from the Internet, for single version storage. Amazon. ...more

03-03-2001 Essential news of the week

Brought neatly together and presented on a plate, here is a roundup of some of the week's main news stories from the world of IT. JVC puts movies in your pocket Psion takes a dive Samsung unveils 24in LCD monitor Clash of the MP3 player titans IBM releases groundbreaking PowerPC chip Gnutella spoiled by Ferrero Intel puts its eggs in notebooks and servers NVIDIA gear up GeForce3 and Go! New improved online adverts Once more unto the courts, dear Microsoft Don't forget, we welcome your comments. Just click on a story and go for the 'Comments' link on the right-hand side of the screen. ...more

3D face recognition system a reality

Computers that have the ability to recognise faces have been a staple of many a sci-fi movie but now it seems that fantasy is about to become reality. One company has developed a system that might just prevent online fraud. Neurodynamics has launched a piece of software called Tridentity, which uses a 3D facial recognition system to provide biometric security for online e-commerce sites. ...more

Broadband connections rise 250 per cent in 12 months

The number of broadband connections across the UK has risen by 250 per cent over the past year, according to new figures from industry-regulator Oftel. Oftel's latest Internet and Broadband brief shows that there are more than 1.77m broadband subscribers - 960,000 via cable modem and 810,000 via ADSL, compared to around half a million 12 months ago. ...more