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Blog Friday 1/10/2004 A friend of the diary relates the following tale of misunderstanding by remote control. He was preparing to leave his home for work one morning when his mobile phone rang....
Netgear spreads home Wi-Fi over power circuitry
News But the UK looks set to miss out on this innovative way of squishing domestic wireless coverage blackspots
419 spammers use Holocaust to boost credibility
News Experts say a 419 email scam from the Czech Republic uses legitimate organisations and Holocaust victims to strengthen its case
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Someone's having a 'maire' - and they're not alone, as Rupert discovers the joy of the Null Modem Cable
Why I dumped IE
Comment One of CNET's top editors explains why he's switched to Firefox...
PeopleSoft boss gets the chop
News Craig Conway has been shown the door by PeopleSoft after the board lost confidence in his leadership
Microsoft millionaire opens wallet for ZigBee start-up
News IT pioneers Paul Allen and Bob Metcalfe have put their faith in ZigBee, a wireless standard which could give billions of devices an Internet link
Contestants unhappy with Avecho response
News ZDNet UK readers have complained that Avecho has not replied to their requests to participate in the company's £10,000 competition to try and defeat its virus software
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre in child-porn sweep
News In the largest operation of its kind in Australia, police have seized hundreds of computers and look set to charge 200 people with over 2,000 child-porn offences
IBM brings its middleware to Linux
News Big Blue has made some of its middleware industry platforms available on the open-source operating system
How to defeat the wardriving spamlords
Leader Unsecured wi-fi access points are the criminal's dream -- they should be made a nightmare for their owners
Patent blow for Microsoft as FAT is rejected
News Builder: A re-examination of the patent granted to Microsoft for its FAT file format has led to a preliminary rejection by the US Patent Office
Sony VAIO B1 Series: a first look
Preview Sony's recent revamp of its VAIO notebooks includes a range aimed at the business sector.
Sun pushes towards OASIS standard
News Builder: The president of Sun Microsystems has expressed his support for an open standard for interchange of data in the workplace, based on that used by OpenOffice.org
'Wardriver' first to be convicted under US anti-spam law
News A landmark case in the US has seen a California man convicted for sending out spam, using unsecured wireless hot spots
Schwartz maintains patent commitment
News Two patent applications from Sun were revealed in an SEC filing with more to come in future filings, according to Sun president Jonathan Schwartz
New boost for open-source community
News Builder: The Apache Software Foundation has recently announced a new project dealing with open-source business process management software, after a donation of code from Gluecode Software
