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Archive - 07 Dec 2004

Judge raps eBay over fraud

News Internet fraud is 'extremely easy' to carry out, according to a British judge, but eBay says its doing all it can to fight the problem

Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners

News A public meeting on software patents is to be held next week, but various high-profile anti-patent campaigners seem to have fallen off the guest list

The Cisco killer speaks

Q&A Scott Kriens has been with Juniper for eight years, and has some interesting thoughts on his Company's rivalry with Cisco, why Microsoft is just, well, Microsoft and his acquisition plans

Does the 'Halo 2 effect' threaten broadband?

News Traffic monitors claim that online gaming will force ISPs to up their game. BT, though, reckons it's more complicated than that

'Me too' is still not his style

Q&A Asian Tech Dragons: Stan Sih is one of tech's great iconoclasts, and the father of Taiwan's PC industry. He's set to retire next year, and has a few interesting insights into how you should do...

Legal peer-to-peer services: Gimmick or genius?

Q&A Napster founder Shawn Fanning has recently launched a new peer-to-peer file-sharing service, and we spoke to him about the tech behind it, the reasons for it and where it might fit in the market

E-government programme 'going well'

News The UK's annual survey of IT managers in local councils seems upbeat about local e-government, but there are concerns

Fanfare for new search launch

News Former American president Bill Clinton typed the first words into a new enterprise search engine on Monday night in New York - but what those words were is left to the imagination

Companies fight IM malware with honeypots

News IMLogic is coordinating security and instant messaging companies in an attempt to fight IM spam

Fledgling Thunderbird takes on Outlook

News The Mozilla Foundation has released the final version of Thunderbird - the email client which it hopes will rival Microsoft Outlook

Apple's Yuletide enterprise conundrum

Leader What do you get a CEO that has everything? Steve Jobs probably has an iPod already: an enterprise strategy would be nice

Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router

Review If you want to provide wireless coverage to a large area and you're concerned about range, Belkin's new MIMO-enabled router is a good alternative to a router/repeater solution. However, you'll need...

Trojan poses as fake Lycos screensaver

News The fallout from Lycos' anti-spam campaign continues with hackers using it to try and trick email users with a password-stealing Trojan

Fiorina calls for greater emphasis on services

Video Oracle OpenWorld: Carly Fiorina, the CEO of HP, has called for IT firms to place a greater emphasis on services than on the technology itself

Microsoft slips out Yukon test release

News Builder: Microsoft has released another test version of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database and has introduced a free management tool

Mystery surrounds Web patents acquisition

News Commerce One's Web services patents have been auctioned off for over $15m, but the identity of the new owner is still unknown, as are their intentions

Kazaa's spying potential revealed

News Witnesses in Australia's Federal Court have have said the software 'could have been designed to spy on users'

Samsung shows off hard-drive based mobile

News A new all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone is being marketed in Korea that contains a 1.5GB hard drive and megapixel camera, among other things

Linux server market to be 'worth $9bn by 2008'

News Industry analysis has predicted that Linux servers' market share will keep on increasing for some time to come, and have shown that the open-source OS already has a very strong hold on the blade...

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0: a first look

Preview Thunderbird 1.0 release candidate runs rings around the more well-established mail clients. It's as easy to use as Outlook Express but far more powerful, and it's superior to the idiosyncratic...

Amazon.com blackouts hit Christmas shopping

News Amazon.com was hit by periodic outages and slowdowns yesterday, but no one's quite sure why

Oracle foresees a rosy future for Apple

News The enterprise end of Apple's business has been given a boost, after Oracle endorsed the company's storage hardware, confirmed plans to release its software on the Mac, and even said it uses Macs...

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