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Archive - 05 Jan 2005

OFT clamps down on domain name scheme

News The Office of Fair Trading says it won't tolerate misleading claims that encourage businesses to register domain names

AMD: UK has avoided fake chip shipments

News AMD has warned that anyone offered a high-performance system that's as cheap as chips should beware

BitTorrent is dead. Long live BitTorrent?

Feature After the legal onslaught of recent weeks, the creators of SuprNova.org are on the point of launching a new de-centralised file-sharing application based on BitTorrent technology

Firefox phishing vulnerability discovered

News A newly discovered flaw in Firefox could allow cybercriminals to take advantage of Web surfers

FoI opens up intelligence files

News Files on subjects as diverse as Channel Tunnel security, the Home Office cat and chemical weapons research have been put online as a 'taster' of information contained in 50,000 files opened under...

Bluetooth viruses pose growing threat

News Mobile phones, PDAs and Wi-Fi-enabled laptops may well be at greater risk of virus attack in 2005 than ever before, experts have warned

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested

Tech Guide Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is now available: ZDNet has put Build 1289 through its paces.

Hackers step up search for unpatched servers

News Organisations that have not patched their Microsoft servers against the WINS flaw need to act fast, says SANS

Super 3G is a super distraction

Leader The telecoms industry should concentrate on getting existing 3G services up to scratch rather than expounding the possibilities of even faster technology

Solaris licence gets OSI approval

News Sun's proposed licence for its Solaris operating system has been granted official status as an open source licence by the Open Source Initiative

iWork rumours gain credence

News The evidence for the imminent launch of a rival to Microsoft Office by Apple is getting stronger

Apple boosts server lines

News Apple has released an updated, speedier version of the Xserve as well as the final version of its delayed Xsan file storage software

Fujitsu-Siemens hit by 'tax on piracy'

News A court in Germany has ruled that the computer manufacturer should pay a levy on every computer sold, as part of a crackdown on copyright fraud

Microsoft preps anti-spyware tool for launch

News A beta version of the technology will be available to the public 'in January', Microsoft confirms

Linksys soups-up Wi-Fi offering

News Linksys is integrating new chip technology into a line of Wi-Fi products that should treble their range and increase speed by a factor of eight, compared to previous offerings

Police seize relabelled AMD chips

News A series of raids in Taiwan has seen several arrests and the seizure of processors

Chips may be down for Transmeta manufacturing

News Transmeta is considering the future of its manufacturing business as it contemplates a move to becoming a licensing-based company

eBay takes on phishers with email service

News The auction giant is to set up a secure email service for communicating with its customers in an attempt to shut out the scammers

SpikeSource stacks up open source lineup

News Kim Polese has given more details of her new company's plans to provide support to enterprises using open source components

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