AMD attacks megahertz-myth with new XP processor

AMD describes its new Athlon XP 2600+ as the 'world's highest-performing processor for desktop PCs'. For what is its new flagship desktop processor, AMD asks consumers to ignore the simple headline figures for operating speed in terms of clock cycles per second (the XP 2600+ clocks 2.13GHz). ...more

Microsoft adds PC-to-phone service to MSN Messenger

Microsoft and US phone giant MCI have signed a deal to enter the fast growing computer-to-phone VoIP service. The snappily titled 'MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call' will be available through Windows Live Messenger, the replacement service to MSN Messenger. The service is currently being tested by MCI and Microsoft as a beta programme to subscribers within the US. ...more

Fifth of Britons fear online crime

A government backed organisation that aims to promote awareness of cyber crime on the Internet says that one in five British people feel more at risk from crime online than they do from any other threat. Get Safe Online's latest research reveals people are more afraid of internet crime than 'physical' crimes such as burglary, being mugged and having their car stolen. Asked to choose the type of crime they felt most exposed to, from a list, 21 per cent of people said they felt most at risk from internet crime compared with just 17 per cent last year. ...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

Google signs deal with NASA

Search engine Google has signed a deal with NASA to collaborate on a range of research and development activities. The plans envisage that the two organisations work together in a number of technology based projects such as massively distributed computing of which Google is an acknowledged world leader, bio-info-nano convergence, and what is referred to as the 'encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry'. 'Our planned partnership presents an enormous range of potential benefits to the space programme,' said NASA Ames Centre Director G. ...more