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News Data retention in the UK is back to square one as the government admits that the secondary legislation it tried to introduce this summer was insufficient to clear up the mess made in primary...
Pair indicted in trade-secret theft
News A federal grand jury in the US has indicted two men on criminal charges of stealing trade secrets from major computer technology companies
Time for a telecoms turnaround?
Comment Could telecoms be about to grow again? Peter Judge thinks so, and there's even one analyst out there who thinks the slump never happened at all.
Ofcom won't ban spam
News An MP has called for action against the rise of pornographic email, but Ofcom looks set to keep well away from Internet regulation
The future's bright... but not for Orange
News The mobile phone giant has announced plans to axe 1,800 staff across Europe, with a large number of redundancies occurring on UK turf
Sony's Passage right for set-tops
News The electronics giant said its Sony Passage technology will allow cable operators to 'use a variety of equipment' from a single system
Test version of .Net Server on tap
News Microsoft on Thursday plans to release a second test version of its Windows .Net Server 2003 operating system, another step in its slow march to the general public
Survey: Tech execs retrenching
News Two years into the technology downturn, a survey points to struggling companies expecting bankruptcy
HP: The feast is in the trimmings
News So far, HP has measured the success of its merger with Compaq in large part by its headway in cutting costs
Rescue a bad hard drive by swapping controllers
Feature Don't let a bad controller stop you from retrieving valuable data from an old drive. In this column we track down a hard-to-find hard drive to save the stored data
Intel releases new programming tools
News The chipmaker on Tuesday began selling new programming tools designed to translate human-written software into instructions a computer can understand
Adobe: Few eBook copies found
News An Adobe employee admitted at a US federal copyright trial on Wednesday that the company hadn't managed to track down any unauthorised eBooks created by ElcomSoft software
NTL deal takes AOL beyond BT's broadband network
News From next spring, AOL broadband will be on offer through NTL's cable network, as well as from a BT local exchange
Homeland security waiting for Wi-Fi
News Security professionals have pointed to a lack of focus on hardening the wireless infrastructure as a flaw in government discussions about protecting the nation's critical infrastructure
The Matrix - coming to a mobile phone near you
News Streaming Media Europe: With phones like the Nokia 3650 able to stream full-motion video, who needs a land line?
LCD monitor prices 'to stabilise in 2003'
News Prices of LCD monitors are likely to stablise by mid-2003, and could even rise, according to a major manufacturer as it prepares to roll out a new range
RealNetworks opens more Helix DNA
News Streaming Media Europe: In a bid to capture more platforms and boost uptake of the RealVideo format, RealNetworks is releasing its Helix Producer source code
Wi-Fi: As big as Budweiser?
News Wireless networking has been tipped to surpass revenue estimates of household products such as Budweiser beer
The FAQs on SANs
FAQ SANs are designed to be reliable, scalable and flexible, find out here about SANs, NAS, Bluefin, Fibre Channel and much more
QuickBooks 2002 Pro
Review QuickBooks 2002 Pro's new features and enhancements make it easier to use and better at supporting real-world business practices. This well-priced accounting program remains the choice for small...
Frye: Curing corporate Linux phobia
News Q&A: IBM's Dan Frye convinced his company to jump on the Linux bandwagon four years ago. Now, he's in the middle - between big business and independent Linux developers
Tiemann steers course for open source
News Q&A: Future open-source struggles may involve copyright law, digital rights management or intellectual property issues, according to Red Hat's CTO Michael Tiemann
Stallman: No future in proprietary software
News Q&A: Richard Stallman, the free-software nut who became a genius, is on a mission to completely reject proprietary software - and make it easy for others to reject it, too
Perens: Avoid repeating Unix mistakes
News Q&A: Open-source guru Bruce Perens thinks better Linux standards will keep it from fragmenting like the Unix movement. Plus, "trusted computing" can't be trusted
Lagel worm wipes files
News All data on drives labelled D, E, F and G is at risk from a new worm doing the rounds in Australia
