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Archive - 08 Sep 1999

Gov't Big Brother plans draw fire from ISPA

News ISPA says the government's data-surveillance plans will have a side-effect: crippling the UK service-provider business.

Palm creators prep faster, cheaper Visor

News Handspring set to launch new, expandable handheld that outperforms and undercuts the Palm -- and uses its OS.

News Burst: Plug pulled on power-line Internet access

News Plans to transmit data over electricity cables were abandoned for commercial reasons Wednesday as Canadian equipment firm Nortel and UK-based United Utilities pulled the plug on a technology seen...

Vodafone adds packets to Radio Service

News Vodafone's service is a cheap data-transmission tool.

News Burst: Government accused of suppressing software

News The government has deliberately hampered the take-up of encryption software according to Nicholas Bohm, e-commerce adviser to civil liberties organisation Cyber Rights.

Inside the WebPDA

News The new partnership between Mitsubishi and ISI presents an exciting prospect for the next generation of PDAs. Dave Wilby looks at the potential.

IBM to court service providers with new servers

News IBM wants ISPs and ASPs' attention, and aims to get it with new servers.

DVD sales to soar - analysts

News DVD is set for big growth, with the UK as an epicentre, a study finds.

WebPDA: A new handheld contender?

News The PDA market is growing and ISI and Mitsubishi are ready to get a piece of the pie.

Will SunRay do a JavaStation?

News Sun hopes its second thin-client effort will fare better than its first -- the JavaStation flop.

IBM revamps voice-recognition software

News IBM switches tactics in selling its voice-recognition software. But is anybody listening?

BT launches email-via-pager service

News BT gets into the email pager game.

Viacom-CBS to build global brands

News The merger of two US media giants will have significant impact on the Internet business.

Microsoft delays Mac IE 5

News Mac will have to wait longer for next version of IE because of ongoing work on "bells and whistles".

News Burst: ISPA joins debate as IOCA row hots up

News The Internet Service Provider's Association (ISPA) has joined the ranks to criticise the government's proposed update to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA).

News Burst: Sun takes another shot at the PC

News Sun Microsystems will re-enter the sub-PC market this week with Sun Ray 1, an "enterprise appliance" that is a complete redesign of Sun's beleaguered JavaStation.

NRC: 28 US nuclear reactors still need Y2K fix

News To help you sleep better at night, a US regulatory body reveals that not all the US' nuke plants are year-2000 safe.

Intel cutting notebook chip prices

News The giant chip maker is clearing out to make room for new products.

AOL: We'll block Tribal Voice, too

News AOL says Tribal Voice will get the same treatment Microsoft got, if the company links its messaging software to AOL's.

A Year Ago: Quantum computing - a step nearer?

News First published: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 11:44:56 GMT

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