Toshiba brings PCs under the control of mobile phones

Japanese giant Toshiba is staking a claim to the world's first mobile phone software that will allow the remote control of a PC. Dubbed the Ubiquitous Viewer, the program can connect a user to any Windows-based computer and run applications, and add, edit and delete files. It also gives access to email, browser and other resources on the target PC in real time. ...more

Global broadband speeds soar

Global broadband speeds have increased by an average of more than 1Mbps over the past two years, while prices have fallen sharply. The latest Internet Telecommunications Union (ITU) 'digital.life' report noted that the median speed has risen from 256Kbps to 1. ...more

Firefox 0.9 released

The Mozilla Organisation has released the latest version of its standalone Web browser. Firefox now includes: easier migration, importing data like favourites, history, settings, cookies and passwords from Internet Explorer and settings from Mozilla 1.x, Netscape and Opera; automatic updating; a new online help system; and new tools for managing both extensions and themes. ...more

Beeb bundles multimedia into search

The BBC has added the ability to search audio and visual content to its relaunched and reinvigorated search engine for its website. Visitors to bbc.co. ...more

Nominet to charge for domain transfers

Nominet, the body that oversees Internet domain name allocations in the UK, is to begin charging for transferring domains from one person or organisation to another. Currently Nominet makes no charge for the transfer of .uk domain names, but from 19 May 2003, it will charge ?30 plus VAT (?35. ...more