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Feature Encapsulation is one of the primary benefits of object-oriented programming. It allows one object to give direction to another object without having to know how those directions will be carried out
Benchmark wars
Feature It's difficult to evaluate database performance objectively. The shrewd manager must carefully evaluate all of the database vendors with a jaundiced eye to separate the hype from the reality
Friday
Blog Friday 9/08/2002Poor old Graham 'Don't Call Me Norton' Wearden, our broadband reporter and scourge of the dodgy telco. BT offered him ADSL free of charge for six months, so he could find out just...
Is the IT job market rebounding?
News A report by the Information Technology Association of America suggests that while the IT job market is weak, there is still a demand for network administrators, programmers, tech support workers,...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Philips defies all attempts to track down ZigBee, deadly embraces are fondly remembered and BT de-broadbands a colleague
HP LaserJet 4600hdn
Review If your organisation produces many colour documents that include photos, this is a fast and good quality way of doing it. You'd have to make good use of it to justify the above-average cost, but...
UK PC sales surpass analysts' hopes
News IDC says that PC sales for the second quarter were better than expected, but full recovery will have to wait until corporates begin spending again
Microsoft and IBM sign Web services pact
News Microsoft, IBM and BEA Systems plan to announce new specifications that the companies hope will help drive adoption of Web services
EBay's PayPal bid under scrutiny
News Federal regulators in the US are investigating eBay's $1.5bn bid to buy the pay site
Do I have a future in software development?
News A programmer advises getting a thorough understanding of the business side of a vertical such as finance, accounting, or human resources, combined with technical expertise, to get an edge
Online gaming goes off course
Comment Rupert Goodwins: Online gaming coupled with broadband will be dynamite, but give us a break from galactic empires, death-spewing beams and alien sex
Linuxcare starts over - with software
News It couldn't make a business out of selling services for Linux, so now Linuxcare is trying a new tack: selling software to make Linux run better on IBM mainframes
Troubled Marconi trims yet more jobs
News A thousand jobs are to be cut due to collapsing sales worldwide in an effort to keep the debt-laden company solvent
Google toolbar exposes PCs to attack
News Researchers say the popular toolbar for Internet Explorer allows attackers to read local files and execute malicious commands
What the feds really think about cybersecurity
Comment Robert Vamosi: Attendees at the Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas found plenty to complain about in software vendor and government plans for reporting security flaws
New DVD spec gains speed
News Increase in recording times is good news for the DVD industry but competing specifications could slow adoption
US lawsuit targets Toshiba notebooks
News Toshiba in trouble over claims that the design of certain notebooks is fundamentally flawed
IBM breeds PowerPC chip from server DNA
News New chip will move desktops to 64-bit processing and could power Macs
Tech giants back new Web services
News Standardisation to ease programmers' task in creating e-business services
Sonicblue replaces chief executive
News The consumer-electronics maker fires its long-time chief executive, the latest in a series of executive shuffles
Report dismisses MMS hype
News A new report says that despite operators' hopes, multimedia messaging will take far longer to take off than predicted
Flat-panel prices sink on low demand
News Sluggish sales and an end to component shortage problems are making flat-panel monitor prices attractive for buyers. Expect a steady decrease in retail prices this year, analysts say
Settlement means sweeping changes to Passport
News In a settlement with the FTC, Microsoft agrees to fundamentally alter the way it handles its authentication system
