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Archive - 04 May 2001

Oxford University sets up Internet Institute

News Internet research team will research the effects of the Internet on society

Experts question US vs China 'cyberwar'

News Real cyberwar or just a slanging match between Chinese and US script-kiddies?

Internet date girl still missing

News Police are increasingly fearful for safety of Net girl

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Thursday 03/05/01 Some good news on broadband! Blueyonder, Telewest's 512k cable modem service, just got cheaper. It was £33 a month, now -- if you already subscribe to another Telewest...

Hewitt: We have a problem

News eMinister remains happy the UK is on course for its broadband goals, but industry is not so sure

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Comment Each Friday I gather my memorable events of the week from my scrambled semblance of a memory and pen them here...

Scotland loses as .scot.uk bid is turned down

News Scotland may be devolved politically, but it will remain tied to .uk in the virtual world if Nominet has its way

New ISP promises child-friendly surfing

News ISP has good intentions, but Internet industry says it is missing the point with unrealistic claims

Government digital divide strategy in disarray

News The strategy to get disadvantaged parts of the country online is suffering from a serious lack of planning

News schmooze: May Day hack attack falls flat

News NHTCU kept up its high standards, Microsoft hated Linux even more, and mobile phone quietude threatened...

Mobile gaming market to hit $5bn mark by 2006

News Network operators have got to concentrate on the youth market if they are to make money from mobile gaming, according to analysts

Lock out the risks with your keyboard

Comment We always used to say that you stood more chance of getting your credit card ripped off in a seedy restaurant, than on the Web. Signs are, this may be changing -- and if that's true, what should...

Sun taps new source for low-end chips

News Sun looks to pastures new for the manufacturing of its low-end CPUs

Second Linux merger cancelled this week

News Is this the final decision on the Linux and Ebiz on-off partnership?

Home Office Web site adopts adult rating

News The Home Office appears to endorse the ICRA system as it rates its own site for nudity

Flaw found in common Internet standard

News Companies alerted to security weakness in ISN

Microsoft UK Web site hacked

News Software mammoth is left red faced after three of its international Web sites -- including the UK site -- are hacked and defaced

eBay to ban sale of hate items

News eBay bows to moral pressure against its auctioning of hate-related memorabilia

Blackberry gets voice for Europe launch

News European buyers of the Blackberry wireless email device will be able to upgrade it to a full-fledged mobile phone

Microsoft: open source is flawed

News As the war of words between Microsoft and the open source community heats up, the software giant claims that releasing source code is 'unhealthy'

Australian Web surfers are the stickiest

News Of the 379 million people now online, Australians spend twice as long at each Web page as the Web-savvy South Koreans

Apple to ditch CRTs for flat panel monitors

News Apple leads the way yet again, but unlike the company's previous technology innovations, this one could mean a big price hike

Hacker exploits Microsoft server flaw

News Just days after Microsoft released a patch for a dangerous security hole in IIS 5.0, a hacker releases a program to circumvent it

A Year Ago: ILOVEYOU reports keep coming in

News First published: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:28:32 GMT

Palm m505

Review It's not perfect, but it's the best Palm device yet.

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