Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is due to get a new service pack update. Service Pack 3 (SP3) is due to hit the streets relatively soon. Currently, SP3 is at Release Candidate 1 (RC1). For those of us still using XP here is what you can look forward to with the new service pack. Windows XP SP3 i......

By July 2008, Microsoft intend to take Windows XP off the market for regular consumers, while computer manufacturers have until the end of the year. Of course, that is not to say it will definitely happen. If enough people make their concerns clear to Microsoft, they may rethink the action, as they...

Most of WinMX's users left the one time market leading P2P program in late 2005, when the developers gave in to the RIAA's cease and desist order. Thanks to efforts by various loyal individuals and supporter groups in the greater WinMX community, just because the owners of WinMX literally pulled th...

It made headlines around the world when the Chinese government and Chinese internet service providers blocked access to Wikipedia in 2004, on the 15 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. Wikipedia was unblocked and reblocked several times over the years following, at times the blocks b...

Until the arrival of Napster, mp3’s were few and far between. My first contact with mp3’s came in 1998 in the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur. The dodgy bootleg store was selling thousands of “CD’s”, each claiming to hold hundreds of tracks. At just a couple of dollars each, it was worth the risk. U...