"Pekka Tarjanne, the former director general of the International Telecommunication Union who led the awards selection committee, said it was "surprisingly easy" to settle on Tim Berners-Lee as the prize's first recipient, despite the 78 nominations and the eight judges on the committee.

"If Tim Berners-Lee had decided to patent his idea in 1989, the Internet would be a different place. Instead, the World Wide Web became free to anyone who could make use of it.

"Many of those who did became rich: Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Pierre Omidyar (eBay) and Marc Andreessen (Netscape). But not Berners-Lee, 49, a British scientist working at a Geneva research lab at the time.

"That is why some people think it is fitting or about time that he finally becomes wealthy, with the award Tuesday of the world's largest technology prize, the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The US$1.65 million prize for outstanding technological achievements that raised the quality of life is supported by the Finnish government and private contributors."

"Over four years ago, we ran a poll asking which program was your preferred email client. We've meant to run that poll again on a variety of occasions, and with the recent major releases of Entourage 2004 and PowerMail 5.0, and with Eudora jumping to version 6.1.1 and Apple Mail taking a small step to version 1.3.8, it's clearly time to revisit the question....

"So tell us which Macintosh email program you primarily use by voting in the poll on our home page."

"This was going to be “How-To increase the range of your iTrip mini”. But after playing around with the new iTrip mini, the FM broadcasting accessory for the iPod our little minds got working on some ideas. We thought we might be able to make the range of Griffin’s iTrip mini a little better if took it apart and exposed the antenna, turns out we could. And then we thought, hey- we could use a couple iPods to broadcast something we wanted to get out there, perhaps not “should” that is, but could. So that was our motivation, and here’s the How-To.

"A group of deeply disgruntled ex-Apple resellers in the US have filed their fourth amended complaint against the computer giant in the Superior Court of Santa Clara. They will be back in court on the 22nd of June when a trial date should be set.

"The group claim that Apple is unfairly favouring its own Apple Stores over independent dealers. Independent dealers believe they pay substantially more for kit than Apple Stores. Dealers also allege that they have trouble getting certain items of Apple kit while nearby Apple Stores have no such problems."

"US computing giant Apple has this week launched a full-scale assault on Europe's music market, but it faces fierce competition from rivals such as Sony and Virgin as well as growing customer complaints....

"Now Apple has competition. Next month, Japanese electronics giant Sony will launch a music download service called Connect, offering 300,000 songs, including 30,000 from independent labels, and a music player to rival Apple's iPod, as predicted by The Business."

"An average of one in three PCs scanned in March and April was carrying a system monitor or Trojan horse hidden on its hard drive.

"The research, carried out by privacy firm Webroot Software and ISP EarthLink, warned that these sorts of spyware can forward information about a user's online activities to another individual or company without the user's knowledge or permission.

"Scans of 650,000 consumer PCs performed between 1 March and 30 April found more than 18 million instances of spyware."

"The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday told Congress that a proposed National Do Not E-mail registry was unworkable until a universal e-mail authentication standard was adopted. However, this technological step may in turn make such a registry unnecessary.

The announcement should give another boost to fast-moving initiatives to better authenticate senders of e-mail by improving SMTP, the transport protocol used by e-mail servers. Such authentication would eliminate most spam, say its proponents."

"The world must wait until late July at the earliest until Microsoft delivers the final release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). But that isn't stopping testers and customers from asking what Microsoft's intentions are, in terms of back-porting the SP2 updates and fixes to other Microsoft operating systems and related products.

SP2, code-named "Springboard," is primarily a collection of security fixes. With SP2, Microsoft is turning on its built-in Windows Firewall by default; including new browser and e-mail safeguards and enhancing XP's memory protection features, company officials have said."

"Does keeping up with the frenetic pace of technological innovation sometimes seem impossible? We know the feeling. As PC Magazine editors and analysts, we spend our days staying ahead of the curve so our readers can be the first to learn about the latest technology products for their homes and offices. But once a year, we turn our attention not to products you can buy today but to those technologies that are gathering momentum, poised to make an impact on the future. The past twelve months have delivered an ample assortment of candidates."

"LOS ANGELES-Internet-connected nanorobots that travel within our bodies. Virtual assistants that appear before our eyes. Virtual worlds that intermingle with our senses.

Welcome to the future according to Ray Kurzweil. "

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