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Archive - 01 Apr 2004

Overwork and burnout bowl over UK IT directors

News With 60-hour weeks the norm for many of Britain's IT leaders, is it any wonder that their personal and social lives are suffering?

Does publishing virus source codes help security?

Analysis Are Web sites that publish the source code of viruses and other exploits helping or hindering security efforts?

UK firms warn of increasing spam burden

News Businesses are braced for a steady rise in the amount of junk mail they must deal with, just months after the UK government declined to put corporate anti-spam protection into law

IBM lights a Candle under management software

News IBM has bought its long-term partner Candle as part of a move to boost its management software offering

What's holding back Wi-Fi?

Feature The potential of public wireless local area networks to ease the connection woes of mobile workers has been well documented but there are some very real obstacles that need to be overcome before...

Sony SDM-S204

Review Sony's SDM-S204 suffers from a lack of features and middling performance, making other, less expensive, displays a better value.

Free Google email service to launch 'in weeks'

News The search-engine giant will invite 1,000 people to try out a free email service that allows a gigabyte of storage, but the service could be available to UK consumers within weeks, according to the...

Microsoft patches win industry trust

News Microsoft's patches are still too frequent and big, but they no longer break business applications to anything like the degree they used to, say users

Dell admits Indian mistake

News The PC maker has 'learnt its lesson' from customer complaints that forced it to bring some call-centre work back in-house after it had been outsourced to India

Korea, China, Japan start open-source collaboration

News The three tiger economies will meet on Saturday to work out how they will collaborate on developing their own open-source alternatives to Microsoft's Windows operating system

IBM to reveal Power's foundations

News The design process of IBM's Power processor will shift towards the open-source model, says the company

Gates reassures customers over security

News Microsoft is making real improvements to its software security, its chairman has said in a letter sent to customers

Stallman threatens boycott over Amazon cookie patent

News Amazon has won a patent that covers the customisation of Web pages using cookies, prompting free software advocate Richard Stallman to threaten a repeat of an earlier boycott

Competing authors pump up virus statistics

News Although NetSky was the more prolific worm last month, Bagle variants were not far behind, according to Sophos

Olympus DM-20 Conference Kit

Review The DM-20 Conference Kit would benefit anyone who needs to record, transcribe and archive meetings and conferences. However, its usability and functionality could be improved.

IDC predicts new dawn for tech

News A renaissance is underway in the technology industry, according to IDC, on the back of a 5 percent spending increase this year

Sun to match Red Hat pricing model

News Solaris will be available under subscription pricing, Sun has intimated, with customers paying per employee

File sharing legal - Canada

News Both downloading music and making it available for sharing are legal in Canada, a judge has ruled

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