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Archive - 02 Aug 2004

Linux keeps dodging hackers and viruses

News Survey: Fewer than one in four Linux developers say they have been hacked and even fewer have been infected by viruses

First BT wireless broadband nears

News BT is buying gear to power its first public wireless broadband service for rural Northern Ireland

Tech acquisitions boom

News Survey: Technology mergers and acquisitions are booming again, with content and services sectors leading the way, and software way down the list

FotoStation Pro 5.1

Review If your company needs to manage a large collection of multimedia files, FotoWare's solution is powerful, quick and easy to use.

Anatomy of a server-room meltdown

Case Study If you think your server is running fine just because the monitoring system has not sent any warning messages, think again. This cautionary tale shows just how disastrous a tiny fault in an old...

Telstra 'played Linux card' to lower Microsoft bills

News Australia's largest telco is reported to have achieved big savings from Microsoft, after looking into open-source alternatives

Siemens pins Blackberry to cross-shaped mobile

News The SK65 mobile phone unfolds to display a full keyboard and uses Blackberry technology to access email and other corporate applications

Open-Xchange Server goes open source

News Netline will join the growing list of software vendors that offer both free and paid-for versions of their software, as it open-sources its collaboration server

Money supply restored

News Microsoft Money users were let back into their online accounts five days after some were shut out

Kumar forced to relinquish golden parachute

News The former chief executive of Computer Associates had to give back more than $8m worth of compensation when he left the company in June

Acer Ferrari 3200

Review Unless you're looking for a notebook to go with your red sports car, there are better-performing thin-and-light systems than Acer's Ferrari 3200.

New Novell Linux built on 2.6 kernel

News Novell will release a new version of its flagship Linux product this week

US hackers plan three-day contest

News Up to 1,000 hackers will attempt to 'capture the flag' in a fight across the Internet

Nocona leads Intel's charge into 64-bit

News The first servers to use Intel Xeon chips with 64-bit extensions will be announced on Monday

Salesforce.com hit by third lawsuit

News Another group of shareholders is alleging that the company misled investors before its IPO

Microsoft closes another hole

News A patch for three critical flaws in Internet Explorer blocks the hole used by the Download.Ject Trojan horse

'Harmless' DNS data can mask attacks

News A security researcher has warned that data transferred by domain name service servers can hide additional malicious information

Unisys tries Linux again

News The company has started offering Red Hat and Novell's versions of the open-source operating system on its multiprocessor servers

Steve Jobs has surgery for cancer

News Apple's chief executive had an operation last week to remove a pancreatic tumour but expects to be back at work next month

Sun wants to buy Novell

News Buying the Linux seller would strike a blow against rival IBM, according to Sun's chief operating officer

Linux 'infringes 283 patents' - insurance group

News A group that sells legal protection insurance claims that Linux infringes multiple patents, including 27 held by Microsoft

Intel draws chips with extreme UV

News The first commercial extreme ultraviolet light photolithography tool has been installed in one of the chip giant's development facilities

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