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Archive - 02 Apr 2002

VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600

Review This is a great card, providing lightning games performance, video handling facilities and multi-monitor support. Although it’s one of the most costly gaming cards around, it delivers enough...

AskJeeves to take on Google

News The PG Wodehouse character is to take on Google in the search engine business, with Teoma.com

Microsoft Web servers gain market share

News A survey of Internet computers finds Microsoft gaining ground on Linux, and discovers that many e-commerce sites use potentially vulnerable e-commerce protection

IBM to share chip intelligence

News Sony and Toshiba have expanded a deal so they will be able to incorporate some of IBM's chip-making advances into consumer devices such as cameras and PlayStation consoles

Antivirus software plugs wormholes

News Network Associates' ThreatScan takes a proactive approach to security. Instead of waiting for worms to attack, the software looks for places where worms could crawl

Net laughs at itself on April Fool's

News File-swapping company Napster has purchased Microsoft for more than $328 billion and is planning to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against itself - yeah, right!

Intel shrinks Pentium 4 Northwood

News The chip giant delivers a smaller, faster Pentium 4, which could mean price cuts down the line for consumers. The company also appears to be stepping up its attack on AMD's True Performance Initiative

MyLife variant viruses spawned over Easter

News The writer of the mass-mailing MyLife virus appears to have released four new versions over the Easter weekend, and they're coming this way

Price rises for unmetered Internet access

News Both BTopenworld and AOL have announced increases in the cost of their unmetered Internet access products, and could push more consumers toward broadband

Regulator considers VoIP phone numbers

News The 05 prefix could dial up Internet phones as the UK telco regulator Oftel considers setting up a new telephone number range to cover Voice over IP calls

ICANN comes under fire - again

News The organisation that is supposed to coordinate Web addresses is facing attack from all sides and its very future could now hang in the balance

Golden-oldie worms top the hit list

News A couple of veteran viruses - SirCam and Nimda - beat out the newbies in a March ranking of digital pests. Why aren't they fading away?

Oracle wants new slice of hosting pie

News Looking to plump up profits, Oracle gets set to launch a new service - software rental, via the Web. It's offering to host and manage its 9i database and app server software for businesses

Walter Hewlett dumped from HP board

News As payback for his outspoken and vehement opposition to the HP-Compaq merger, Hewlett-Packard said it would not renominate dissident board member Walter Hewlett

Flaws dog Microsoft, despite IE patch

News Critical security holes in Internet Explorer get patches, but is still working on a fix for the latest hole in Windows NT and Windows 2000

Will Macromedia's Flash plans cripple the Web?

News Macromedia's Flash-everywhere approach brings new innovations to Web design but carries hidden potential liabilities that could negate its benefits

MS anti-Unix site powered by... Unix

News 'We Have The Way Out,' a Web site designed to steer big companies away from Unix, runs on Web servers powered by FreeBSD along with the Unix-based Web server Apache

Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa

News Brilliant Digital Entertainment has distributed its own networking technology to millions of Kazaa users, and could use it for distributed computing or other ends

Five years ago: AOL says it's ready to grow

News AOL has fuelled the CompuServe buyout media feeding frenzy by telling its subscribers it is ready to grow

PaceBlade PaceBook

Review Frequent travellers will accept moderate performance and a lack of built-in 802.11b wireless connectivity for this unusual system's touch screen and go-anywhere flexibility.

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