Archive - 29 Mar 2001
Welsh teenager pleads guilty to hacking
A Welsh teenager has pleaded guilty in a pre-trial hearing to charges that he obtained unlawful acce...
Football clubs set to charge for online commentary
British football clubs are looking closely at charging people for access to online commentaries of l...
Ticket to ride: cheap flights, big money
The internet provides the perfect medium for last-minute, low-cost travel. A new breed of independen...
'Online monopoly' could push up air fares by $3.2bn
US air travellers could face a massive hike in flight prices totalling up to $3.2bn when the country...
Why Sun cares about software
HP does it. IBM does it. Microsoft wants to do it. And now it looks as though Sun Microsystems is st...
Oftel turns the screw on BT leased line charges
Oftel today ordered BT to come to an arrangement with 10 UK telcos over wholesale leased line charge...
'Big Brother' police system falls foul of privacy lobby
Plans to develop a revolutionary criminal intelligence system in Scotland have run aground because o...
BT buyback rumours denied by ESAT
ESAT Digifone has refuted suggestions in the Irish press that it's planning a buyback from BT, despi...
CeBIT update: NTT comes to Europe with 3G standard
Japanese mobile telephone provider NTT DoCoMo is set to target the European market with its 3G stand...
Extravagant AOL pushes for SME trading hubs
AOL is to invest millions in pushing B2B exchanges for SMEs.
Text messaging gets poetic: Shakespeare turns in grave
The Guardian newspaper today launched a poetry competition in which the winner stands to rece...
Vodafone pressure sets Verizon backpedalling
A rift has surfaced between Vodafone and Verizon following a statement from the latter last week tha...
Sony flexes its mobile muscles
Sony is to put more muscle into mobile phones and open its own internet-based bank in Japan.
'Fat cat' Baltimore bosses under fire from shareholders
Bosses at security company Baltimore were rewarded with salary increases of up to 250 per cent last ...
CeBIT Update: Past comes back to haunt US Robotics veterans
Two former US Robotics veterans were shocked to see a stand at CeBIT occupied by their former employ...
Iridium rises from the ashes
Satellite telephony company Iridium is to re-launch its mobile phone service this week.
Australia tries to ban online gambling
Australia's government is moving to ban online bookmakers in an attempt to cut the numbers of people...
Pack a punch - win a Packard Bell laptop
This month silicon.com has another state of the art laptop up for grabs thanks to Packard Bell.
Cisco closes war chest to sit out tech slump
Cisco Systems has put an informal block on further acquisitions in reaction to its own tumbling shar...
Palm gets fingers burned in share price collapse
Palm took a hammering on the markets yesterday, losing half its value as shares nosedived on news of...
Straw launches taskforce to tackle online child porn
Home Secretary Jack Straw has announced the formation of a taskforce to tackle the thorny issue of p...
Stockwatch Daily: Europe follows Nasdaq plunge
Overnight, Nasdaq closed off six per cent dragging the European bourses down upon opening.
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