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Archive - 06 May 2004

UK's Bluetooth pioneer 'switches on the afterburners'

News Cambridge Silicon Radio is buoyant on growing demand for Bluetooth phones and accessories as it lays plans for future products - including the concept of the 'fongle'

Scottish schools get help with StarOffice

News Brief: A deal between Sun and the Scottish Executive could help local authorities and schools switch from Microsoft Office to StarOffice

Spammers use free porn to bypass Hotmail protection

News Update: Spammers have found an ingenious way to bypass the protection put in place by Hotmail and Yahoo to stop bots from opening email accounts - they're offering free porn

UK lags behind Estonia in ID card technology

News The UK's ID card proposal fails to include facilities for a digital signature, which puts Britain behind Estonia and at least six other EU member states

BT to double SDSL coverage

News Companies that want a high-speed, two-way broadband link but can't get SDSL today should tell their ISP - soon

Psion's Symbian sell-off hangs on German approval

News The ongoing saga of Psion's attempts to divest itself of its share of Symbian continues

CRTs: The price of progress

Comment There are about a million tonnes of glass from old CRT monitors sitting in homes and offices - all set to become waste over the next 10 years

The Battle of Midware moves into your home

Comment Microsoft makes no bones about its plans for home control but are its Web services open enough?

Opera 7.5 beta 1

Preview Opera's multi-platform browser is receiving an overhaul. We take the beta Windows version for a spin.

Wireless broadband firm takes aim at BT

News A new player has joined the battle to create Broadband Britain, with a high-speed wireless service using the 3.4GHz band now available in some areas

BMW designs car with wireless LAN

News The car manufacturer has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard to produce a BMW that comes with its own wireless network connection

ID cards set back by equipment failure

News Technical problems have delayed the government's biometric ID card trials by three months

HP LaserJet 3380

Review HP's LaserJet 3380 is a good multifunction printer for small businesses that don't require colour printing.

Schools 'need gender-specific software'

News An Australian IT security firm says that boys' desire to hack into networks means that schools need software designed specifically to stop them

Companies 'ignore email complaints'

News Australian research suggests that about half of complaints emailed to companies fail to be addressed

Rambus launches more antitrust action

News Siemens and Micron Technology are being targeted by the chip designer's latest lawsuits

UK government down the e-league

News Despite efforts by the Office of the e-Envoy to push the e-government programme forward, the UK is slipping down the global league tables, says new research

Next Windows to turbo charge notebooks

News Microsoft will add laptop-specific feature to its next version of Windows

Companies will spend more on IT this year - IDC

News US and Canadian firms will increase their technology spending by nearly 4 percent this year, says the research firm

Intel switches attention to physical world

News A sensor network that sends remote PCs alerts on anomalies in the physical world is under development at Intel

Handhelds for your business

Buyer's Guide Handhelds come in many shapes and sizes, while price tags vary widely. Here's a tour of the market, and a selection of top choices.

Longhorn will feature 'secure' components

News Microsoft says it still wants to incorporate major security features into its next operating system

CA looks to open source

News Computer Associates is pouring funding and developer resources into open source, as it considers the foundation for its next wave of management software

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