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Archive - 04 Nov 2005

IBM spearheads drive to eradicate world's slums

News Habitat JAM, the biggest interactive event ever organised on the Web, is being held next month and could involve up to a million people

Microsoft and Apple's interoperability tussle

Feature Microsoft's battle to get the iPod to talk to the Xbox gives a valuable insight into industry politics

Mitnick on hacking

Q&A The ex-hacker gets stuck into the evolution of computer hacking, software security and social engineering

Programmer faces Greek jail over spam claims

News The Greek police have arrested a well known Swedish developer for sending spam, but he claims they have no evidence

Antivirus firms consider protection against Sony DRM rootkit

News Kaspersky calls it spyware, while at Sophos it's ineptware. Whatever you call the software used by Sony's digital rights management, antivirus companies are considering adding protection against it...

Google Print upsets children's hospital

News Update: Peter Pan has been funding vital work at Great Ormond Street for decades, but Google Print could 'rob the hospital of a major core of its charity revenue' if its concerns are well-founded

Council's SMS wheeze for air quality updates

News As November 5th approaches, citizens in Croydon can receive warnings on their mobile about deteriorating air quality

Government must update cybercrime laws, say experts

News The government has been accused of sitting on its hands rather than making the Computer Misuse Act relevant

Microsoft partners with British Library

News The deal means that 25 million pages of the British Library's books will be digitised

Autonomy acquires Verity

News The UK enterprise search firm is to acquire its US competitor in a £300m deal

UK data hosting rivals merge

News Redbus is looking to cut staff, as well as improve operating practices, after absorbing TeleCity

Sony DRM rootkit 'legal in the UK'

News UK computer users would 'struggle to sue' Sony even if their computer was damaged by its copy-restriction software, according to legal experts

Latest Google Desktop sports new features

News Desktop for Enterprise enhances the options for business users while Google Desktop 2 boasts increased usability

Company integration means re-evaluating disaster recovery plans

Feature DR Special: Well-established systems could be forced back to basics when mergers and acquisitions require the melding of IT resources

Could xMax change the world of broadband?

Analysis Analysis: A technology demonstrated in the US on Thursday could shake up the telecoms industry and let anyone become a wireless ISP, if the claims being made by its supporters are true

First public demo of 'disruptive' wireless broadband

News A US company claims to have made a major breakthough with a technology that can broadcast at high speeds over long distances using hardly any power

Free Wi-Fi access for Nintendo users

News The launch of Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection service is good news for gamers and could help make wireless access an easier process for everyone

IT Priorities: Strategy suffers at the hands of tactics

Leader The UK IT Priorities Survey indicates that strategic priorities are being undermined by tactical necessities - particularly when it comes to security. Things must change

Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW

Review Dell's 24in. LCD delivers excellent image quality and a ton of features -- wide-ranging video inputs, picture-in-picture and flash-card slots -- for a great price.

Latest Firefox release candidate is out

News Firefox 1.5 has moved another step closer to full release

Row over £30bn cost of ID cards

News Critics claim the government has seriously miscalculated the cost of setting up a national identification system

Google Print faces further delays

News 'Operational difficulties' are holding back Google's much-maligned plan to digitise the world's books