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Blog Friday 1/06/2001 You remember I was really nice about Microsoft getting rid of the dancing paperclip in Office XP? You remember I said it was a sign of sanity and real customer awareness? Well,...
Britons admit to embarrassing PC moments
News An online survey exposes the lack of technical know-how amongst British consumers
GPRS price war unlikely, say analysts
News Vodafone is undercutting BT Cellnet by £100 with its Motorola T260 GPRS phone, but industry experts say BT is unlikely to follow
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Cash reward offered for arrest of sex.com fraudster
News Stephen Cohen, the man who hijacked and then squatted sex.com between 1995 and 1999, now has a $50,000 price on his head
BT Bland vs BBC Bland
Comment Next week, anybody with an interest in the Internet ought to be heading to Earls Court for the Internet World exhibition. I'll be there, and I'll have one question for all the exhibitors:
Acer shakes hands with Palm OS
News Acer plans to base a new line of handhelds called the Acer Mobile Device on the Palm OS - the first positive sign for Palm in a while
AOL 7.0 leaked to the Web
News Users get accidental sneak peek at next version of AOL, including changes to Welcome Screen and Buddy List features
Linux arrives for original PlayStation
News Czech firm aims to turn ubiquitous gaming consoles into low-cost PCs, and has an alpha version of its Linux port available for download to prove it
Microsoft ignores porn link on its site
News Gaming fans have been getting more than they bargained for on the Microsoft gaming site
Company cuts staff after failed Palm deal
News They've called the whole thing off, but some of Extended Systems' staff will be relocated
Hoax email virus victims seek fix
News People duped by a hoax email into deleting a harmless but useful file from their Windows-based PCs now want to know how to get it back
Intel feels cool response to Pentium 4
News The Pentium 4 is not selling as well as it should, and some analysts believe that Intel may fill only half its quota for this year
Apache open-source site attacked
News The group that develops the Web's most popular web server software has acknowledged that its own servers were hacked last month
Born again: Clippy returns to haunt Office XP
News Rumours of Clippy's demise were premature, it seems. Now, just when you thought it was safe to return to Office, Microsoft resurrects the infamous paperclip
Virus dresses up as a naked Jennifer Lopez
News By promising to display pictures of actress Jennifer Lopez naked, the destructive Chernobyl virus is again spreading across the Internet via e-mail
Sharp picks Lineo's Linux for new PDA
News Sharp will today detail plans to use Lineo's Embedix version of Linux for its upcoming Zaurus palmtop computer
