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Archive - 08 May 2003

T-Mobile US bundles Wi-Fi, GPRS, phone

News T-Mobile US has combined its mobile phone, GPRS and Wi-Fi services, enabling subscribers to log on at a hotspot and charge it to their mobile phone bill

Search is on for Broadband Britain's champions

News Are you doing impressive things with your ADSL connection? If so, BT is keen to hear about you

Synchronise your Pocket PC with Novell GroupWise

Feature There are several utilities for synchronising a PDA with GroupWise, but virtually all of them focus on Palm devices. We look at how to do the job with a Pocket PC

Lock up your desktops

Comment Matt Loney: Take the PCs away from your users and it can add up to a particularly elegant solution that even HP is now beginning to cater for

Smart carpet can spot fires, steer feet and sell beer

News Chip maker Infineon has developed a 'smart' fabric that can detect movement, changes in temperature or display advertising slogans on airships

XP's smart display enables double vision

News After much criticism, Microsoft will be updating its 'smart' display - code name Mira - and improving its compatibility with Windows XP

Operators demand larger broadband price cut

News BT is slammed as 'monopolistic' as the latest Datastream price cut fails to wholly satisfy its critics

IBM releases supercomputer details

News More information about Blue Gene, a project aiming at creating the world's fastest supercomputer, has been released by IBM

Replace POP3 with IMAP to extend the reach of users' email

Feature You could be using IMAP instead of POP3 for those users that need to access emails from a number of different computers

Tags track Japanese shoppers

News How long a customer spends wandering round a shop or browsing through a book is being studied for retail insights in a trial involving RFID tags

Microsoft announces Longhorn release date

News After much speculation and several leaked versions, Microsoft has confirmed when it will debut its next major Windows software release

Hotmail tools fight the war against spam

News Billions of spam emails are blocked every day, but to combat the smarter spammers, MSN and Hotmail have added new anti-spam tools

Composer set to play on

News The curtain appeared to have fallen on the Web authoring tool when Mozilla refocused its development resources, but a contributor to the open-source group is to rescue the project

W3C lathers up Soap standard

News Soap 1.2 is set to become an official standard for Web services as the World Wide Web Consortium finalises the latest upgrade to the protocol

Oracle chooses Intel compilers

News Intel is to supply programming tools for Oracle - the compilers will be used to create software for Intel servers

US plans huge spend on nanotechnology

News The US Congress is preparing to spend bigger money on smaller technology. On Wednesday, they approved additional nanotechnology spending by a 405 to 19 vote

MS Passport reveals credit card details

News A security flaw discovered in Microsoft Passport - its central repository for sensitive user data - enables an attacker to easily gain access to users' account

Log on with the Microsoft Internet toilet

News Queues for the loos at Glastonbury and other music festivals are set to get longer with the introduction of Microsoft's Web-enabled toilet

Media Player 'skins' in security alert

News Downloading skins - new shapes and colours - for Windows Media Player could allow attackers to gain full control over a users PC, according to Microsoft

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 7

Review Significant improvements to Dragon NaturallySpeaking make it the premier speech recognition system at present. Accuracy scores in the high nineties will be the norm rather than the exception in...

Windows Longhorn: build M5

Preview Yet another version of the next generation of Windows XP -- known for now as Longhorn -- has leaked onto the Web, showing a fledgling operating system that's remarkably well developed even in a...

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