System Administrator Appreciation Day

Not much loved and much misunderstood, that's your system administrator. And in case you didn't realise, the last Friday in July is System Administrator Day.. ...more

Internet speed record falls to Tokyo University

Both Internet land speed records have fallen. A team from the University of Tokyo has set a new mark for long-distance data transfer using the IPv4 protocol while researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN in Switzerland broke the record for IPv6 transfers. The Tokyo team managed to send data at 7. ...more

Yahoo! to change the Overture name

Internet portal Yahoo! is to rename the Overture online marketing company it bought nearly two years ago to Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions. As part of the plan, all the paid-for services will be brought under the same umbrella including Yahoo! Shopping's Product Submit and Yahoo! Directory's Express. In order to provide a one stop shop for its customers, Yahoo will move Overture's website to a new 'Advertising Solutions Centre' site. ...more

BT sets faster and slower broadband services

BT is set to launch two new wholesale ADSL products, one at a relatively slow 256Kbit/sec and one at 2Mbit/sec. Home 250, which can only be called broadband in the always-on sense, should retail to consumers at around ?17.50 per month, while Home 2000 will come in around ?55 (both inc. ...more

Librarians protest to parliament over DRM

Librarians have told the parliamentary inquiry into digital rights management that restrictions on access to digital media may prevent some legitimate uses. The Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA), which represents UK libraries and archives, told the inquiry that it has 'grave concerns' that DRM will override existing exceptions to copyright law that allow libraries to provide access to and lend publications. It is also concerned that once copyright expires, the DRM will still prevent access. ...more