BT gets unmetered

BT has officially announced its unmetered Internet access package - it's called "BTinternet Anytime" and will cost you a monthly fixed fee of ?14.99. Available from January 2001, the package includes 10Mb of Webspace for building Web sites and one year's use of the Web filtering software CyberPatrol. ...more

Duron steps out at 900Mhz

AMD has released the latest addition to its Duron stable, this time in a 900Mhz flavour. The chips cost $129 each for a batch of 1,000. The chip will maintains the Duron Socket A infrastructure. ...more

iMacs harness flower power

Last night in Tokyo Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the latest incarnations of the iMac - Flower Power and Blue Dalmation - complete with CD-RW drives, but retaining the 15-inch screen. Apple has resisted demands for a G4 iMac, instead opting for G3s, with a 600MHz chip in the top model. The 600MHz model comes with 128Mb RAM, 256K of level 2 cache at 600MHz, an ATI Rage 128 Ultra video card with 16Mb RAM and a 40Gb hard drive. ...more

More PC doom and gloom from Gartner

Analyst Gartner Dataquest has marked another step downwards for the European PC industry with the announcement that the sector has experienced its first ever instance of a decline in shipments. The Q2 figures for 2001 show 6.02 million shipments, a four per cent drop over the same quarter last year. ...more

Intel goes lead free and IBM goes green

The computing industry might not have the greenest of images, but Intel and IBM are working on it - Intel has announced intentions to go lead free with microprocessors and IMB is launching a 'Project Big Green'. Intel states that its future processors are going to be 100 percent lead-free, beginning with its family of 45nm high-k metal gate (Hi-k) processors, which include Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Xeon models. The company is due to begin such 45nm Hi-k production in the 'second half of this year', it says. ...more