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Archive - 01 May 2002

Apple sues over Flash MX video technology

News Apple is alleging that video encoding firm Sorenson broke its contract with Apple by licensing QuickTime technology to Macromedia

Dell trying to sidestep chip 'cartel'

News The PC maker is building relationships with a variety of memory manufacturers in order to avoid what it sees as cooperation to raise prices

Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic S2

Review The compact and ergonomic Scenic S2 provides all the connections an office PC needs, while Thermal Management allows it to be configured for quiet operation or maximum performance as required.

Becoming a Sun-certified programmer for Java

News Attaining Sun's Certified Programmer status is the first step in showcasing your Java expertise. Learn more about test preparation and resources that can help you earn this certificate

ARM offers low-power mobile chips

News The UK chip designer has introduced new chip designs for high-end devices and low-powered mobile gadgets

AOL signs up Google

News Overture has lost out to its search rival as America Online announces it is to use Google's services from now on

BEA, RIM launch Web services venture

News Developers will be able to tailor Web services for BlackBerry devices using a tool developed by Research in Motion and BEA

CA turns products to services, says Kumar

Feature Computer Associates CEO Sanjay Kumar talks about partnering, privacy, portals --- and his company's new licensing model.

What's next for Mozilla?

News Q&A: Mitchell Baker, 'Chief Lizard Wrangler' for Mozilla.org, talks about the future for the open-source browser as it nears release

Sun's Zander to step down

News The president of Sun Microsystems is to retire this summer after 15 years at the company. It's the latest executive change in a recent flurry of shifts and departures

Support users with Remote Assistance

Feature Windows XP's Remote Assistance is a boon to troubleshooters, Here's how to get the best out of it

MPs push for regulatory action against BT

News Update:The culture, media and sport select committee wants BT's networking business to be split from the rest of company to help boost broadband take-up. BT claims the argument is outdated

Freenet founder launches business P2P product

News The underground file-swapping technology of Uprizer is being reworked into a corporate product

Netscape flaw exposes users' hard drives

News A bug in the Mozilla code, which is used in the latest Netscape browser, allows a Web page to list directories and read files from the users' computer

Stallman takes Gates to task over GPL attacks

News Microsoft's chairman recently equated the GPL licence with anti-capitalism, urging developing nations to shun it; now the GPL founder, Richard Stallman, has hit back

What Gates' attacks on the GPL really mean

Comment Bill Gates has recently been intensifying his attacks on the GNU Public Licence. At the invitation of ZDNet UK, Richard Stallman defends his philosophy and extracts the underlying message in Gates'...

Wireless spin-off tames Ethernet

Comment Network managers have written off so-called "policy networking" as vendor hype. But it looks like a technology intended to secure wireless might finally make it real.

Baptism of fire for new WorldCom chief

News New WorldCom head John Sidgmore faces a daunting task: restoring Wall Street and rank-and-file faith in a struggling telecoms giant with more than £17bn in debt

Sony buys stake in RealNetworks

News A new deal bolsters RealNetworks' presence on Sony devices, while giving Sony a way to distribute its content on its own-brand PCs

AMD narrows Intel gap, boosts Hammer

News AMD gains a bit of ground on Intel, bolstered in part by growth in the markets for notebook and server chips. It also announces the speed of its forthcoming chip

HP merger lawsuit dismissed

News A Delaware judge throws out Walter Hewlett's challenge to the Hewlett-Packard shareholder vote, ruling that the vote was legal

Publisher unites Old Man and the e-book

News Those who said the bell had tolled for e-books may want to think again, as Hemingway's works come into the digital age

Chip designers paint a brighter picture

News Companies competing in market for semiconductor intellectual property are doing all right for themselves, having managed to buck the chip slump of 2001, a new report says

Five years ago: WebTV devices' time is years away - Forrester

News Microsoft may have paid close on half a million dollars for WebTV but a leading researcher doesn't believe the category will be worth much until the new millennium

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