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Archive - 08 Jan 2001

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Review A versatile connectivity solution for Handspring Visor users.

Egghead.com claims hack escape

News Reckons that details of three million credit cards weren't swiped after all

It's Sony's turn to offer a Web appliance

News Say hello to the the $500 eVilla -- the latest attempt to convert non-Net users

GUS resuscitates Breathe

News Argos owner vows to take troubled ISP out of sick ward with £1.4m deal

UPDATE: Net could break Bulger killers' anonymity

News Senior family judge aware that Monday's injunction may not be fully effective

Red Hot Ant halts unmetered signup

News Internet service provider burns BT over Friaco confusion

Device to link home phones directly to Net2Phone

News Using cumbersome PC microphones will no longer be the only way to make voice calls over the Net

Community watch

Comment How many "moots" have you been invited to? And have you yet discovered that the most important part of the world wide web, is the neighbourhood net?

Bluetooth: The coolest technology you're not going to use

Comment When the sun shines on the mountains here in Seattle, they seem close enough to touch.

Internet two and the eye in the sky

Comment Sometime during the next four years, the new administration is going to take up the question of how to ensure security on an insecure Internet. I hope it is more possessed of inspired brilliance...

AT&Tell Me No Lies

Comment Beginning on the night of Saturday, October 21, and on through the early morning hours Sunday, broadband Internet services that AT&T offers over its Chicago-area cable systems were hit by two...

Never get lost again with GPS

Comment We've all heard the joke about how men never ask for directions.

Some questions for Bluetooth

Comment I've just returned from the Bluetooth Developer's Conference in San Jose, Calif. with a bag full of vendor-marked trinkets and the strong sense that real Bluetooth solutions are well on their way.

Powerful Bluetooth

Comment Is there anything more irritating than the latest office faux pas? I'm referring, of course, to the idiot who marches off to the smoking room or the toilet or to buy a sandwich, leaving his...

Easy Target

Comment This is the story of an 83-year-old man living in a Midwestern city. We'll call him Dr. X. He was the former president of a small but prestigious liberal arts college. I met him, almost four...

2001: A Microsoft innovation

Comment Arthur C Clarke is a very interesting person, in fact he is a hero of mine. He has done very well you know; written lots of good books, and, you'll be pleased to hear, lots of tat. He has had lots...

If things didn't change....

Comment Nothing changes. Only the wrapping paper style is different: when someone says that technology has utterly altered the planet, there is almost nothing to what they say.

Watching the wireless

Comment I was talking to my partner a few weeks ago about general geeky things, and the conversation turned to getting some form of high-speed net connection into our home. At this point my ears definitely...

Get wily with wireless

Comment Here's a neat little way to turn your hobby into fun and profit. It's almost certainly an illegal way, so don't actually try it yourself; but you may find it profitable, even so, to know that it's...

Stepping-out with the Internet

Comment What can we look forward to in 2001? In the business IT world it was the Internet that changed everything last year and the year before that and it's the Internet that will continue to turn things...

2001 -- the year ahead

Comment All predictions guaranteed accurate -- or your money back.

Linux is too much

Comment "Too much ain't enough" was the motto of the Lone Star Cafe, a long-gone New York City night spot. And the phrase could just as easily be the ethos of Linux distribution vendors. But big Linux...

The year's most influential chipmaker

Comment Who was the most influential chipmaker of 2000?

How Intel is becoming the next antitrust target

Comment Chip maker Intel's identity crisis is finally out in the open.

End of the free Internet? Nope

Comment In the best tradition of American techno-capitalism, Internet companies have proven to be shameless copycats, stealing and repackaging each others' best ideas with abandon.

The Day Ahead: Portal earnings preview

News Financial problems on the portal front

The Net's big porn secret

Comment It's the industry's dirty little secret, but online porn has turned out to be a blessing for many of the biggest brands on the Internet.

Tiscali buys Liberty Surf

News Italian giant snaps up France's second largest ISP -- will LineOne be next?

Can Palm pocket e-tailing?

News CEO Carl Yankowski thinks so -- unveiling an upcoming eWallet feature that will allow Palm users to buy products and services via their handhelds

Linux to star on silver screen

News Hollywood and Linux: Not a likely combination, but one that has geeks worldwide salivating

PHP virus sparks debate

News Could PHP scripting viruses be on the way?

Latest Duron runs at 850MHz

News Faster speeds, along with new integrated chipsets, bode well for AMD's value chip

CES gets curiouser and curiouser

News Go bushwhacking at CES and you'll discover high-tech items few of the big-name manufacturers ever would have thought of making

Gates keynote: Xbox unveiled

News Amid much pomp and fanfare in Vegas, Microsoft's chairman takes the wraps off the long-awaited game platform

News Burst: 'Epidemic' of Internet child pornography sweeps UK

News Some courts don't believe that offenders are paedophiles resulting in lenient sentences

Microsoft pulls site after child porn found

News Child porn found on Swedish language site

A Year Ago: Jane Wakefield - Welcome to the new millennium

News First published: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 14:41:00 GMT

Linux 2.4: It's here! Now what?

Comment It's here! It's here! Linux 2.4 has arrived and Linux fans are beside themselves with joy. If you have friends who love Linux you can forget about seeing them for the next week. They'll be busy...

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