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Archive - 04 Oct 2004

PalmOne boosts handheld memory and cuts prices

News With the Tungsten T5 and the Treo 650, PalmOne will attempt to increase its grip on the declining handheld market

PeopleSoft: Please ignore the ex-CEO behind the curtain

News PeopleSoft Connect 2004: The software company's customer event kicked off in London in typical feel-good fashion - but with no mention of former boss Craig Conway, who was fired just three days ago

PeopleSoft case hears more details on CEO concerns

News Testimony from a PeopleSoft board member indicates that the company had been thinking about removing Craig Conway for some time

PalmOne Tungsten T5: a first look

Preview PalmOne breaks new ground with the business-focussed Tungsten T5, but we wish it had Wi-Fi built-in.

Ray of hope for broadband ISPs

News BT's shock wholesale broadband price rise has been thrown into reverse

Conway v Ellison: It's over

Comment The very public sacking of Craig Conway has surprised the tech sector - and it's denied the industry a chance to see him lock horns with Larry

Public sector strike threatened over lack of IT performance improvement

News The government needs to think hard about its IT performance before it can cut the promised 100,000 public sector jobs, says the Public and Commercial Services Union

IBM beefs up security on ThinkPad T42

Preview IBM's business workhorse notebook gets a fingerprint reader and an upgraded suite of security tools. We take a first look.

Microscopic motion sensor developed

News A device is being tested in the US that should allow motion sensing that is three orders of magnitude more sensitive than currently available technology

Open-source lobby group lambasts Gartner's analysis

News Open Source Industry Australia has launched a scathing attack on last week's report from Gartner that suggest selling PCs with Linux pre-installed encourages piracy, laying the blame at Microsoft's...

Kodak wins Java patent case

News Sun could be forced to pay out $1bn after losing a lawsuit over whether the Java programming language violated patents owned by Kodak

Microsoft can't out-cool Apple

Leader Microsoft wants to be invited into your living room - but Apple looks the cooler bet

Avecho delays £10,000 hacking competition

News The company says that it needs a third-party adjudicator before its £10,000 security challenge can go ahead

US head of cybersecurity quits to spend more time with his family

News But critics in the industry point out that the departure of a third head in two years indicates deeper problems within the Department of Homeland Security

Apple AirPort Express with AirTunes

Review The AirPort Express is among the very best wireless-networking devices we've seen for Mac or Windows, but its lack of computer-free control limits its unique ability to stream iTunes music.

Conway's fall from grace softened by $20m golden parachute

News Despite having been removed from his job because the board no longer felt confident in his ability to lead the company, the ex-CEO of PeopleSoft looks set to get a payout of up to $20m

Sproqit gets its teeth into mobile remote access

News A thin client application launched this week aims to let mobile workers access their PCs via smartphones or PDAs

Gates announces Microsoft's plan to 'jump in' to stop spyware

News Even Bill admits to having had problems with malware and also predicts the imminent demise of password-secured networks

Intel announces 64-bit compatible compiler

News Intel finally fully join the 64-bit processing race with the release of a compiler that will support both its own 64-bit x86 chips, as well as those made by AMD

Security 'job one priority at Microsoft'

News Microsoft emphasises that it thinks the battle against the 'bad people out there in cyberspace' is being won

Coral signals a new era for DRM

News Companies from Hewlett-Packard to Sony and Twentieth Century Fox come together to look for a joint way forward, but Microsoft and Apple aren't participating

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