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Blog Friday 7/5/2004 Last year, I was talking to an Intel bod about Banias -- now Pentium M -- and the fact that it was really rather good. "So it goes as fast as a Pentium 4?" I said. "Yes,"...
BT's broadband push leaves rivals stranded
News Competition in the UK broadband market may be taking a beating, now that BT is making ADSL available to almost the whole country
Earth calling Google...
Comment A read through the Google IPO statement raises questions about whether the search engine's founders can actually deliver on their lofty promises
.Net developers can write for Linux using Mono
News Novell's Mono Program, which promises to allow .Net developers to develop Linux applications, should enable companies to make the best use of their developers
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Gods, apples, and ready-salted chips all clatter around behind the scenes in this week's hidden world of IT
CA says its results will contain no surprises
News Computer Associates, under investigation for its accounting practices, says it will report $850m in revenue for its recently finished fourth quarter
'Clean up this Internet effluent now'
Q&A Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs allowing unfiltered traffic to flow to customers is like a water authority pumping out raw sewage
UK Broadband plans 'portable' service
News Wi-Fi and 3G could have a new rival, if the Netvigator service is offered on a PC Card
Intel cancels Tejas and Jayhawk
News Update: The chip giant has abandoned plans to release a fourth-generation Pentium 4 chip next year
Microsoft loses interest in venture capital
Feature Despite a history of venture investing, Microsoft has stopped taking equity stakes in start-ups
Fujitsu Siemens Stylistic ST5010
Review Whether you need a Tablet PC for home or work, consider this light, fast and versatile slate-style system.
Wi-Fi bicycle gets pedalling
News One man in New York is taking Wi-Fi to the streets with his 'Magicbike'
Will SP2 be a boost for Trustworthy Computing?
Comment Microsoft can't afford to over-play the benefits of SP2, even though it does not yet have a clear rival on the desktop
OpenVMS alive and kicking on SuperDome
News The venerable operating system that made its way from DEC, through Compaq and on to HP got its first European airing this week on the Itanium2-based SuperDome, proving there's life in the old dog yet
Texts touted as landline saviour
News Being able to send text messages from fixed-line phones will help traditional telecommunications firms fight back, says a consultancy firm
Tech leaders ponder intersection of nanotech and biotech
News Silicon Valley has formed a group that will examine the convergence of nanotechnology and biotechnology
Judge reveals PeopleSoft-Oracle trial date
News Brief: It will be another six months until the lawsuit in which PeopleSoft alleges Oracle acted unfairly when attempting to acquire the company has its day in court
Sasser risk 'not yet over'
News Security researchers are concerned that Sasser and Netsky could be combined to produce a fast-spreading worm that would be difficult to keep out of networks
Novell tests .Net on open source
News The Mono project lets programmers using Microsoft's .Net build applications that will run on Windows, Linux and Unix
Longhorn may seem a little familiar
News On PCs with older video cards, Longhorn's 3D features will look a lot like Windows 2000
