Web Week

We're drowning in it: So much for the paperless office. A new US university study found not only that the amount of information on paper is increasing but the amount of stored information is growing 30 per cent a year.

The long and short of it: Microsoft has previewed its next operating system called Longhorn but it won't be released until about 2006. Some believe that by then open source systems will dominate.

Fireworks from space: Powerful solar storms have been pounding the Earth in the last week. Check out images and background at Space.com.

All in a good cause: Launched online this week is a call for ideas for internet projects with "positive real world benefits". A non-profit group is willing to back projects that use technology to improve life offline - but do you want to give your good ideas away?

Singing a new tune: Apple's popular legal music downloading site iTunes has opened its doors to Windows users. In the first week since they could buy tracks, the site had a 112 per cent increase in traffic.