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Archive - 03 May 2002

Pocket size media for support staff

Feature Make sure you have all the files you need, without having to carry them in a truck

E-voting gets technology thumbs-up

News A trial in St Albans worked well, with the count completed within six minutes, but it does not seem to have had a positive effect on voter turnout

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Friday 3/05/2002 Somewhere deep in the dusty depths of my desk, a long-forgotten light flickers on. A nearby meter twitches, its needle pulling at the cobwebs as it pushes into the red. What's...

Burnt out (or laid off)? Consider a career coach

News A combination of a better work/life balance and lower job-related stress levels are the most common requirements for burnt-out employees

Sun Cobalt prepares May appliance launch

News The server manufacturer is planning a major launch this month despite the sudden departure last week of Stephen DeWitt, who was head of the Cobalt division

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Comment ITV Digital went down the pan, the eMac arrived, and an intrepid reporter braves the bad tie select committee.

GameCube launches in Europe

News Nintendo's next-gen console has enjoyed a successful European launch, which started on the stroke of midnight

Treo gets battery life boost

News Handspring's mobile phone-PDA combination gets a software tweak that could give older units 20 percent longer battery life

News Schmooze: The week it rained executives

News Executive burnout continued, the Monkey found itself out of a job and rats joined the mobile revolution

ActiveX flaw exposes Flash users to hackers

News Updated: A flaw in the Flash ActiveX control could let hackers execute malicious code on computers with the multimedia client

Seagate revs up high capacity disks

News Higher capacity hard disks with spindle speeds up to 15,000rpm are being put into production at Seagate

Notebook sales on the up

News Sales of notebooks have continued to grow as buyers increasingly move away from desktop PCs

Sony VAIO PCG-C1MGP

Review This would be the ultimate ultraportable notebook, were it not for enduring question-marks about performance and, in particular, battery life.

MPs worried by broadband divide

News Westminster politicians are increasingly annoyed that many rural areas have no access to affordable broadband, and they'd like Douglas Alexander to do more about it

HP merger means new ticker

News Compaq will live on in the new Hewlett-Packard symbol for the New York Stock Exchange

Router maker Unisphere loses voice

News Unisphere's parent company Siemens is to integrate its voice technology businesses into its communications division

GameCube hits the UK

News Nintendo hopes that its GameCube will be a worthy competitor to Sony's PlayStation2 and Microsoft's Xbox. A ZDNet UK News Focus

IBM: Let Sun into Web services group

News Big Blue has changed its mind on the status Sun should be granted in a key Web services group, in a move that could end the in-fighting between the major players

Software engineer sentenced to prison

News A former employee of Symantec has been sent to jail for his part in the DrinkOrDie software piracy ring

Copyright law forces music offline

Comment Webcasting music is about to feel the brunt of a law demanding royalties - potentially killing off Web radio stations dedicated to non-commercial artists.

Hackers set off on a rampage

News The 'Deceptive Duo' are attacking Web sites across the Internet to emphasise online security flaws

Why I trust Microsoft more than my bank

Comment Consumers don't want to store their information using Microsoft and AOL's e-wallet services - but, says David Coursey, financial institutions are no more trustworthy.

Adobe wins Macromedia patent suit

News Adobe wins £1.9m in damages and Macromedia may be forced to stop selling its new Flash MX Web animation tool

Hacker finds fault in .Net security

News Microsoft needs to iron some problems out of the .Net Web services infrastructure, suggests a consultant

Fighting flab with your PDA

News School pupils in Singapore can now use their PDA as a personal trainer, keeping tabs on how many calories they are eating and burning off

Five Years Ago: Intel 'jumping all over' new bug scare

News Intel said today that it is working hard to get to the roots of the latest processor bug scare

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