Netscape 6.0 - the wait is finally over

Netscape has finally launched version 6.0 of its browser, after one of the longest and most public gestation periods for any major piece of software. Development of Netscape 6. ...more

Internet's oldest star retires

The world's oldest Internet star isn't some Texan porn queen, but a humble coffee pot located in Cambridge University. A web camera has been trained on this bearer of beverages for a decade and now the site is closing down. Computer scientists at the university were so sick of climbing the stairs to get a cup of coffee only to find the pot empty that they decided to install a web camera, build a web site and stop any wasted journeys. ...more

Music industry renews legal war against file-sharers

The music industry has recommenced its legal assault on p2p file sharing with the announcement of more than 8,000 cases against alleged sharers in 17 countries. Internet users in three countries, Brazil, Mexico and Poland, are being targeted for the first time. The IFPI, the major record companies international umbrella group, estimates that in Brazil alone, where record company revenues have fallen more than 40 per cent since 2000, more than one billion music tracks were downloaded last year. ...more

PC Pro tests the brand new ATi graphics chips

ATi has announced the RADEON 9800, 9600 and 9200 chips, with the former two supporting the latest versions of the DirectX and OpenGL graphics standards. The top drawer chip is the 9800, upon which the likes of Hercules is basing its 3D Prophet 9800 Pro card. It boasts a 256-bit DDR memory interface and 8-pixel pipeline engine, along with programmable shader engines, full-speed full floating point precision and advanced filtering technologies (Anisotropic Filtering up to X16 and Full Scene Anti-Aliasing up to 6x). ...more

Storytelling goes interactive

They say that everyone has a book inside them, so how do you fancy helping one of India's top actresses pen a novel? It sounds crazy but that's exactly what Tara Deshpande is doing on her Web site, themotive.net. She's already had success with her first book of short stories and poems, Fifty and Done but now the Bollywood actress has decided to open up a new challenge and interact with her fans. ...more