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Blog Thursday 1/06/2006 It's Ubuntu day! Yet more evidence of the power of fast networks: the moment the finished Ubuntu 6.06 LTS distribution is ready, I can snatch it off a server, write it to...
Open source security push gets $20m
News Intrusion prevention vendor Sourcefire has secured extra capital to fuel its expansion into Europe
$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'
News The head of the One Laptop per Child project, Nicholas Negroponte, says he must be doing something right if he is upsetting Microsoft and Intel
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Psychotic birds, crumbling software, arrogant telcos and upgrades that never go as planned? Looks like business as usual.
UK welcomes careful hackers
Leader Britain's new approach to serious crime means you'll get little help from the police if your PC is hijacked
Making 1GB downloads easier to swallow
News Pando Networks has kicked off a public beta of a peer-to-peer network that lets participants swap large files with one other through email without choking their computers
Will IT bring about the end of the world?
News The inventors of the Doomsday Clock are holding a series of 'doomsday reconsidered' meetings to look at future threats to civilisation
BBC to show World Cup games online
News The BBC says the move shows it is 'taking seriously' what consumers have been calling for, but corporate networks could face serious problems
Police will not pursue ransom hackers
News After a Manchester woman was held to ransom by hackers, experts and senior police officers have voiced concern that such cases are falling between the cracks
Vista beta drains laptop batteries
News Just when laptop makers thought they were getting closer to extending battery life, they are now further away, due to Vista features such as the Aero interface
Small firms 'squeezed out' on telecoms customer care
News Small businesses may be the victims of cost-cutting by mobile operators, with an Ofcom Consumer Panel survey showing a drop in satisfaction
Open source politics are 'American as apple pie'
News Eben Moglen, professor of law at Columbia Law School, says that open source is a fundamentally American concept, contrary to the view promoted by Microsoft and others
Virus levels drop as spyware soars
News Email viruses have dropped to a new low, but spam and spyware are an increasingly dangerous problem
UK still divided along digital lines
News Worryingly, most over-65s say they do not keep up with new developments in communications technology
Microsoft splits Office duties
News Two separate teams have been created to handle clients and platforms
Bloggers creaming off newspaper readers
Feature Initially caught off-guard by blogs, newspapers and old-guard news agencies are now racing to present their own plans
Microsoft probes Windows DoS flaw
News Microsoft is investigating a bug that could cause certain applications to crash, as users await a fix for a critical flaw in Word
Tesco to track milk deliveries by RFID
News The move signals the next phase of Tesco's RFID plans, which involve using permanent radio tags on some transport items
Microsoft to charge more for high-end Exchange
News To get the voice mail integration and other new features in Exchange Server 2007, businesses will have to pay a higher fee
eBay tries email in net neutrality fight
News eBay called on more than a million members to get involved in the debate over telecommunications laws 'before it is too late'
Vista plays hide-and-seek with hackers
News Windows Vista Beta 2 includes Address Space Layout Randomization, a security feature designed to protect against buffer overrun exploits
AMD sets a course for 2008
News The chip maker laid out plans to serve 30 percent of the market within the next two years, with new quad-core processor designs scheduled for 2007 and an acceleration of its manufacturing capabilities
