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The seven new top level domains that were announced in November 2000 - .biz, .info, . ...more

Ex Nvidia CFO settles false accounting case

The former Chief Financial Officer of leading graphics chip company Nvidia has agreed to pay a US court $672,000. The settlement follows charges that she inflated Nvidia's 2000 results in order to meet analysts' expectations and buoy the share price. Christine Hoberg, agreed to pay the fine plus 'disgorgement of ill-gotten gains' to a court in San Jose yesterday. ...more

Mobilexpo 2001 highlight - Trium Mondo

Another eye-grabbing PDA-cum-phone at Mobilexpo 2001 came in the form of the Trium Mondo. While it has the large 240x320 touch-sensitive screen of its rivals, the fact that it is monochrome means it draws less power and consequently has a lot slimmer form factor than, say, the Siemens SX45. Being PocketPC-based, it is replete with apps such as Pocket Outlook and Word and supports multimedia files. ...more

Fury at failed Vista upgrades

Angry PC owners are turning on Microsoft after their upgrade vouchers for Windows Vista were deemed ineligible. Customers who bought OEM versions of Windows XP, complete with an upgrade voucher for Vista, are being told they don't qualify for the upgrade unless the operating system was installed on a brand new machine by a system builder. One such customer is analyst and PC Pro reader Mark Brookes, who bought an OEM version of Windows XP Pro from an online retailer. ...more

BT will fork out ?20bn for 3G

BT has told its investors that the building of 3G networks could cost in the region of ?10bn on top of the ?9.5bn spent on licences. In a prospectus for its rights issue sent out to share holders, BT says that not only will third-generation services cost ?10bn over five years but there will be no guarantee of any return at the end of it. ...more