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Archive - 09 Dec 2004

Siemens claims gigabit wireless breakthrough

News The next generation of wireless data is taking shape in Siemen's Munich laboratories

Shock as docs say laptops stop tots

News Research says they're bad for breeding, but the managing director of one laptop maker says he is looking forward to reproducing successfully in the future

JBoss eyes front-end technologies

News Builder: In the next stage in the company's strategy to build an open-source stack, it has said it may start developing a web application framework

Organised crime's grip on the Net 'is tightening'

News With zombie networks on sale for just $300 and some hackers stealing tens of millions of dollars, professional criminals really are a growing threat online

mmO2 'super' 3G due next summer

News The Isle of Man's first 3G network was never used commercially, but the island's e-business minister has high hopes for its successor

Words of wisdom from LG's 'foolish' old man

Q&A Asian Tech Dragons: SS Kim, LG Electronics' CEO, explains why he thinks a 30 percent efficiency gain is easier to achieve than a 5 percent one and provides other insights into his business strategy

Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail

News Security vulnerabilities will very soon be exploited within hours of their discovery, experts fear

Chinese cybercops 'nailing virus writers'

News European police aren't good enough at fighting virtual crime and should learn from China, says Kaspersky Labs

Netsky tops 2004 virus charts

News Representing just under a quarter of all virus incidents, Netsky-P easily topped Sophos' virus charts this year, which also showed that the rate of virus creation is increasing

Making an open-source living, part 2

Feature Builder: Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation claims running a business based on open-source software is possible

Nokia ups mobile market predictions

News There will be two billion mobile phones in use worldwide by 2006, according to Nokia, thanks to strong growth in highly populated countries

Green activist slams government's teleworking policy

News Jonathon Porritt, ex-director of Friends of the Earth, has criticised government reports on teleworking as 'tokenist'

Telco regulator to give ICSTIS teeth

News It's time for a crackdown on premium-rate dialling scams, according to Ofcom

Sun CEO taken in by Photoshop

News Oracle OpenWorld: While busy taking swipes at his hosts, Scott McNealy fell victim to an Internet myth, using a faked photo he believed to be real to illustrate a point in his keynote

Oracle fails to face the future

Leader Oracle is stuck in last year while the future is impatiently waiting to happen. Time to move on

Home PCs need thinning out

News Security, reliability and usability are desperately lacking in unmanaged PCs. Disaster - or business opportunity?

£300m local savings from e-government

News The much-maligned e-government programme seems to have met with some success of late, with two reports predicting massive cost savings from it

PalmSource makes Linux acquisition

News The makers of PalmOS have announced plans to acquire China MobileSoft that should put Linux front-and-centre in the company's development plans

Linux users warned over GNOME attack

News A graphics-handling based security flaw has been exposed in the GDE, which could allow machines to be compromised

Multi-platform phishing exploit uncovered

News A top security firm has revealed a new phishing method that manipulates the content of pop-up windows, and has attacked browser makers for failing to deal with it

Ellison leads by example

News Oracle OpenWorld: In what could be a brave attempt to improve his company's environmental policies, the Oracle boss has led from the front by recycling his speech from last year's conference

McNealy takes pricing fight to Oracle

News Oracle OpenWorld: Sun's chief executive has used his keynote at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco to take a number of very public swipes at the database giant's pricing policy

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