The AnswerBank Articles

How can you stop spam

By Christina Okoli What is email spam Spam is the common term for the sending of unsolicited emails to one or more email addresses by a company or individual. Like electronic junk mail, most spam00:00 Sat 24th Feb 2001

Unmetered access for a tenner

By Oliver Goggi WE could all soon be enjoying cheaper surf time following Oftel ordering BT to open up exchanges and reduce charges to rival ISP's. The industry watchdog said BT should free up its00:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001

How do you know if people are calling while you're online

By Anna Tobin BEEFY asked whether there are any programmes that work in the UK that alert you when you have an incoming call while you're online Some people who have call-waiting on their phone00:00 Fri 16th Feb 2001

Internet Investment

By Oliver Goggi IT's BEEN called the 'Dotcom Death-watch' and the casualties list is still growing. The last quarter of 2000 saw internet companies collapsing at an average of one per day, but those00:00 Thu 15th Feb 2001

Gimme that bleeeeping gadget

By Christina Okoli HERE are the gadgets you won't be seen without in a short time from now: 1. One of these days you'll be paying your bus fare with your mobile phone. Nokia, the mobile phone00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

The dot com name drop

By Christina Okoli FORGET about sticks, stones and silly nursery rhymes; in the dot com world, a name can certainly hurt you. Online businesses are scrambling to change their image, and00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

Mobile games leap to the next level

By Christina Okoli PICTURE it. Your in the middle of a game of Tomb Raider, you've surpassed your best ever score, you've slayed the villains, saved the virtuous, and now you're about to leap Lara00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

The great Internet rip-off

By Christina Okoli EVEN web surfers are getting caught in the tide of rip-off Britain. According to a recent report Internet users in the UK are paying more for high-speed access than their00:00 Sun 04th Feb 2001

A call to arms

By Christina Okoli NEARLY everyone has a mobile phone these days, good news for network operators, bad news for manufacturers. In fact, with two-thirds of people in the UK and Europe already owning00:00 Thu 04th Jan 2001

Things that make you go emm

By Christina Okoli THE Internet and Computing channel has been inundated with questions and requests ranging from the banal to the bizarre, and from the practical to the perplexing. However, with00:00 Thu 01st Feb 2001

Cyberhome, sweet cyberhome

By Christina Okoli EVERYONE'S been talking about it for years. How much will it cost They ask. What will it look like When will it all happen Well, the home of the future is fast becoming the00:00 Sun 28th Jan 2001

Game over for Dreamcast

By Christina Okoli 'TRADE in your videogame controller for a keyboard and start typing for your life.' This was the launch slogan for one of Sega's latest games, yet the words have taken on new00:00 Sun 28th Jan 2001

Electronic elections

By Christina Okoli THE Internet has found its way into nearly every corner of our lives, and now, as the UK hangs on the verge of an expected general election, the web is once again rearing its00:00 Sun 28th Jan 2001

Move over mobiles, pay phones are back

By Christina Okoli IN AN effort to reclaim profits and dignity, British Telecom (BT) has been talking-up its latest plans to create a new generation of pay phones, following the recent launch of00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Beep, beep, beep - get the message

By Christina Okoli ARE you GR8, 1DRFL, :-) , :-( , or just confused Well, while the world was busy sightseeing in cyberspace, a new generation of mobile phone devotees were busy creating a whole00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Is it a bird Is it a plane .......

By Christina Okoli IT’S being pegged as bigger than the internet and more life changing than the PC, but what exactly is this mysterious new invention that has the technology industry buzzing00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Fair by name, fair by nature

By Christina Okoli THERE is something very strange going on in church halls and school gyms across the country. Thousands of people are giving-up a relaxing weekend in, to push, shove and haggle00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

PC phone home

By Christina Okoli ARE you making the most of that 1,000 hunk of plastic that's taking-up almost all the space on you desk Well, if you're one of the 4 per cent of computer owners who uses your PC00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

Bill scales the gates of the game world

By Christina Okoli THE computer giant Microsoft is moving out of the office and into the living room, as it bids to conquer the tight and hostile world of computer games. Press Association Gates00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

WWW dot gone

By Christina Okoli MORE and more Internet companies are saving-up, logging-off and shutting down. In the year 2000, six of some of the web's biggest movers closed, resulting in a plunge in the00:00 Tue 02nd Jan 2001