Gillian Law

British Telecommunications PLC (BT) plans to make its (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) broadband service available to 90 per cent of U.K. homes by the third quarter. It also plans to cut fees for the service, slashing wholesale prices by up to 52 per cent, it said Thursday.

Adobe Systems Inc. is integrating its Internet form creation software with IBM Corp.'s DB2 Content Manager.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is to provide and manage the infrastructure for an electronic learning project for the Northern Ireland's Department of Education, in a US$100 million deal.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may temporarily halve the fees paid by country code top level domain (ccTLD) registries to encourage them to enter agreements with it.

British Telecommunications PLC (BT) demonstrated concept Web services on Thursday, including an identity checking product that it predicts will be the "ubiquitous verification service for business and government" in the U.K.

Microsoft Corp. said users of its Windows Millennium Edition (Me) operating system risk having their files deleted by an attacker because of what it called a critical security vulnerability. It issued a patch for the flaw Wednesday.

British scientists will soon have access to a national e-science computing grid for both information exchange and joint processing power. The e-science grid connects a national centre in Edinburgh to e-science centres at universities around the United Kingdom. The latest centre, at the University of Southampton, in England, was connected last October.

British scientists will soon have access to a national e-science computing grid for both information exchange and joint processing power. The e-science grid connects a national center in Edinburgh to e-science centers at universities around the United Kingdom. The latest center, at the University of Southampton, in England, was connected last October.