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Archive - 02 Oct 2003

TruSecure sees security in screensavers

News To increase internal security, you might be better off with a screensaver instead of a strong login password, says TruSecure

'Smart' bank card scheme goes nationwide

News After a successful trial in Nottingham, smart-card banking is spreading to the rest of the UK

IBM cuts 700 services jobs

News After laying off 380 software staff last week, IBM has announced it will eliminate 700 jobs from its services group

Palm's new Tungstens mean business

Video ZDNet's Patrick Houston checks out the Palm Tungsten T3 and E models, which tout more power, new display features and upgraded personal information management software for the business user

Civil liberties group denounces 'trusted' PCs

News 'Trusted computing', as promoted by Microsoft, IBM and others, represents a threat to users' privacy, says a prominent digital civil liberties group

Free spectrum boosts Irish broadband

News A high-speed wireless network running at 2.4GHz in Dublin is embracing 5.7GHz after seeing plenty of demand for its service

New Trojan appears to attack VeriSign

News A Trojan program has emerged in Australia that may be triggering a concerted assault on VeriSign's domain name

Apple may jump on hot spot bandwagon

News Apple was a pioneer of mainstream wireless LAN use, and now it appears to be looking to return to the Wi-Fi limelight

Start-up touts musical communities

News A digital music service set up by the founder of McAfee hopes to create networks of people recommending and buying songs online

Australians auction phone numbers online

News Valuable commercial phone numbers will be sold online, in an auction designed to avoid previous problems with domain-name sales

Downloadable games poised to rocket

News The online PC gaming market is about to take off, according to statistics from IDC

Flaws quickly turn into attacks

News Companies have little time to patch their systems before security holes in software are exploited by worms or viruses, according to research from Symantec

IBM cements outsourcing dominance

News IBM continues to lead the outsourcing market, despite efforts by other players to catch up, according to IDC

Transport of not much delight

Comment A new smart ticketing scheme may have the tech bells and whistles, but is new technology always an improvement?

Cisco and Huawei mend fences

News The two firms have agreed to halt their fight over router and switch source code, with Huawei to make changes to several products

Palm Tungsten T3

Review The Tungsten T3 combines powerful business and multimedia features with a Schwarzenegger-size screen.

Radar grid homes in on weather warnings

News Researchers are investigating whether a network of lightweight radars will prove better weather forecasters than costly supercomputers

It doesn't matter whether IT matters

Comment Arguing over semantics misses the point that the people implementing a system matter far more than the technology

SGI draws SCO's wrath

News SCO has singled out the high-end computer maker as the next target of its Unix copyright crusade

IBM bags billion pound utility deal

News Big Blue will provide utility computing service to financial services firm Nordea

Microsoft shifts security strategy

News Microsoft is looking for new ways to 'secure the perimeter' after conceding its focus on patches does not work

Siebel and IBM want small firms' IT cash

News The two companies have teamed up to target smaller companies with a customer relationship management system delivered via the Internet

Govt finds open-source flaws

News The OpenSSL Project has released a patch for security holes found during a test by the UK government

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