19th March 2000 Archive

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Kyle Bennett gets hard labour for pic spoof

Gets put in cooler for overclocking

Pictured here below is Kyle Bennett of overclocking site HardOCP, who at the beginning of last week published a picture on his site of Register old-timer Mike Magee. Now, it appears, the authorities have caught up with him and he is going to have to spend a mandatory sentence of 10 years in the overclocking cooler. We …

Business 19 Mar 2000, 11:30
Free ISPs play second fiddle to broadband – chello

Flash the e-cash

chello, the broadband people from Holland who've yet to set up shop in Britain, has conducted Europe's first study into broadband Net usage patterns. The survey of some 3,500 users showed that people spent 72 hours a month online using broadband services, as opposed to 36 hours a month for dial-up access. People also dip into …

Business 19 Mar 2000, 21:06
Queen stakes claim in dotcom bonanza

How come we all know?

Four months ago, the Queen invested £100,000 in a dot.com firm called getmapping.com. Next month, her three per cent stake will magically transform to £1.2 million when the company floats. getmapping.com is a geographic information Web overlay play - it is producing an aerial map of Britain in digitised form. And it needs to …

Business 19 Mar 2000, 22:35
Chat room instant diagnosis saves life of stroke victim

Numb limbs, erratic typing, bad spelling

A British engineer owes his life to bad typing. John Fowles, 59, was chatting online to his girlfriend when he began to lose feeling on the left hand side of his body. His typing became erratic, his limbs went numb. Four thousand miles away, girlfriend Susan Harrigan, of New Jersey, noticed his chat-room posting was littered …

Business 19 Mar 2000, 22:48