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British Library opens a new chapter in its history: helping Amazon storm the antiquarian book market
25 November 2003
The online retailer Amazon has stormed the fusty world of antiquarian booksellers by acquiring the rights to the British Library's unique back catalogue, dragging the buying and selling of rare and out-of-print books into the dotcom age.

Jackson sets up website to proclaim his innocence
25 November 2003
Michael Jackson, who faces criminal charges and a possible trial for alleged molestation of a 12-year-old boy at his Neverland ranch, set up a special website yesterday to proclaim his innocence and provide a direct line of communication to his fans.

Ukbetting out to raise £11m for acquisitions
19 November 2003
The internet betting group ukbetting yesterday announced it was raising £11m - partly to help it buy Oddschecker, a privately owned odds comparison service, and partly to pay down debt and fund further acquisitions.

BT pledges to give broadband access to every UK home
18 November 2003
BT pledged yesterday to upgrade its network if there was sufficient demand so that every home in the UK would be able to access high-speed internet services by the end of 2005.

Leeson gambles on casino website
17 November 2003
Nick Leeson gambled £800m on the stock market and lost, so his latest decision to take on all comers at poker hardly seems prudent.

Hackers, shopfronts and worms: How fraud on the internet costs customers £100,000 a day
11 November 2003
Shoppers tempted to pick up Christmas gifts online are being warned to take care after new figures revealed that fraud on the internet is rocketing.

AIM float values dot.com fledgling at £20m
03 November 2003
Two IT entrepreneurs are set to become paper millionaires when the betting software company they founded floats on the Alternative Investment Market later this month.

This is the sound of the future
02 November 2003
The record bosses have a nasty case of slipped disc as music lovers download songs for free and copy them on to blank CDs.

Web 'typo squatters' cash in on key errors
02 November 2003
It's easy to spell the internet domain name wrong - miss a dot, or put ".co.uk" instead of ".com". So easy, in fact, that a multimillion-pound industry has sprung up to benefit from the innocent typing error.

'Phone and park' launched
01 November 2003
The first scheme that allows drivers to pay for parking by mobile phone was launched in Scotland yesterday.

More bank customers face e-mail scam
28 October 2003
Customers of leading banks and building societies are being targeted in a fraudulent e-mail campaign that tries to fool people in to handing over their account details.

Oracle beware: in software, the SAP is rising
26 October 2003
Stephen Pritchard reports on the German firm that is laying down the gauntlet to its famed rivals

Google, the global search engine, logs on to $15bn fortune in just five years
25 October 2003
For a long time, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were dismissed as the johnny-come-latelies of the internet revolution.

The real improvements in Panther
24 October 2003
Charles Arthur, Technology Editor, reviews the innovations in Apple's new OSX operating system

Apple's new Panther takes huge leap forward
24 October 2003
Exclusive: Technology Editor Charles Arthur tests the new Mac OSX operating system

Teenage hacker cleared of crashing Houston's computer system
18 October 2003
A teenager from Dorset who has admitted being part of a "hacker elite" has been cleared of hacking into and crashing the computers at America's biggest port, in Houston, Texas.

Bulldog's fast service steps up broadband price war
15 October 2003
The broadband business Bulldog Communications kicked off a price war for high-speed internet access yesterday by launching an even faster product for consumers at a similar price to current broadband packages.

Internet betting scandal sparks ATP investigation
13 October 2003
The men's professional tennis tour has launched an investigation into alleged match-fixing by players.

Ireland's Poor Clares reach out to cyberspace
13 October 2003
Catholic mysticism and cyberspace have come together in the west of Ireland, where an enclosed order of nuns have taken to the internet to disseminate their message.

The video phone struggling for its own place in the highlights
12 October 2003
3 has a long way to go to hit its target of a million sales by the end of the year, says Clayton Hirst

Viva Tiscali: Italians take on the big battalions of broadband in Britain
12 October 2003
Two years ago, the Italian internet service provider Tiscali boasted that, by about now, it would rival Freeserve and AOL in the UK.

Internet grocery shopping shrugs off basketcase image
11 October 2003
Five years ago it seemed as though online grocery shopping was going to be everywhere - and that the five main supermarkets would dominate it and make huge profits.

Music download system Napster is back - but this time it's totally legal
10 October 2003
Napster, the name that triggered the volcanic eruption of free music sharing, went back online yesterday but this time as an entirely legal, paid-for, one-way download service.

Tiscali launches price war in broadband market
09 October 2003
The Italian internet service provider Tiscali will launch an attack on the UK's broadband market today by unveiling a cheaper high speed internet package in a move designed to help it grab one-fifth of the growth in the market this year.

20,000 child porn images a week put on internet, says NSPCC
08 October 2003
More than 20,000 images of child pornography are posted on the internet every week, according to a report published today.