A. Many leading companies believe that mobile phones are the next new medium for advertisers. The idea is born of the text messaging phenomenon, and with 929 million text messages sent out in the UK
01:00 Sun 25th Mar 2001A. Various web monitoring organisations, including ABC Electric and The Internet Advertising Bureau, have called for stricter rules governing the audit of visitor figures after many websites have
01:00 Fri 23rd Mar 2001A. The UK home secretary Jack Straw has called on mobile phones companies, including Vodafone, BT Cellnet, One2One and Orange, to collaborate with the government to help find ways to make mobile
01:00 Sun 25th Mar 2001In recent weeks, the IT channel has received some exciting, some mundane, some surprising, some surreal, some serious and some silly questions that have never ceased to amaze the Answerbank team. The
01:00 Sat 17th Mar 2001 A. Napster is a free music distribution service, devised by the US youngster Shawn Fanning. At the age of 19, the rock music fan wrote the software for Napster to allow Internet users to copy songs
01:00 Sat 17th Mar 2001A. PDAs are the latest gadgets to hit tech-land. PDA stands for personal digital assistant and has taken over the filofax to become the indispensable tool for organising one's personal and business
01:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001A. Many web publishers are hoping that bigger and bolder banner ads will encourage net users to pay more attention to the products being advertised and thus increase the company's revenue.
01:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001A. Psychologists attribute three harmful effects to media violence that they suspect might also apply to ultra-violent video game playing. They believe that game players, particularly children, may
01:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2001A. The Internet is the new platform for the world's top talk-show hosts and music DJs as thousands of radio stations migrate online everyday. Many of these broadcasters are traditional stations that
01:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2001By Christina Okoli ANYONE who's anyone has a website these days. Industry analysts say it could make or break your business. But, with all of its virtues, the very thought of building one's own
01:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2001 IN RECENT weeks, the IT channel has attracted some cracking questions that have helped to shed light on even the darkest corners of cyberspace. One user, in fact, rekindled the war of the
01:00 Sat 24th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli A DRIVER was sentenced this month to five years in prison after his lorry hit and killed a pedestrian in a roadside lay-by. The presiding judge described the driver's actions as
01:00 Sat 24th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli What is email spam Spam is the common term for the sending of unsolicited emails to one or more email addresses by a company or individual. Like electronic junk mail, most spam
01:00 Sat 24th Feb 2001By Oliver Goggi WE could all soon be enjoying cheaper surf time following Oftel ordering BT to open up exchanges and reduce charges to rival ISP's. The industry watchdog said BT should free up its
01:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001By Anna Tobin BEEFY asked whether there are any programmes that work in the UK that alert you when you have an incoming call while you're online Some people who have call-waiting on their phone
01:00 Fri 16th Feb 2001By Oliver Goggi IT's BEEN called the 'Dotcom Death-watch' and the casualties list is still growing. The last quarter of 2000 saw internet companies collapsing at an average of one per day, but those
01:00 Thu 15th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli HERE are the gadgets you won't be seen without in a short time from now: 1. One of these days you'll be paying your bus fare with your mobile phone. Nokia, the mobile phone
01:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli FORGET about sticks, stones and silly nursery rhymes; in the dot com world, a name can certainly hurt you. Online businesses are scrambling to change their image, and
01:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli PICTURE it. Your in the middle of a game of Tomb Raider, you've surpassed your best ever score, you've slayed the villains, saved the virtuous, and now you're about to leap Lara
01:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli EVEN web surfers are getting caught in the tide of rip-off Britain. According to a recent report Internet users in the UK are paying more for high-speed access than their
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