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Archive - 09 May 2006

Torvalds admits Linux kernel concerns

News The founder of Linux says that fears that its kernel is getting buggier are 'certainly real'

Apple's chip transplant boosts sales — analyst

News UBS believes that Mac sales could be up nearly ten percent year-on-year by September, thanks to the move to Intel chips

An Open Letter To T-Mobile

Leader HSDPA still stands for Hey! Stupid! Don't Prat Around!

Ubuntu development hits founder in the pocket

News Mark Shuttleworth has said he takes pleasure in spending millions on the Ubuntu Linux distribution

US hacker gets five years in the slammer

News The Californian rented out his network of 400,000 compromised PCs to distribute spam and carry out attacks

Mapping a path for the 3D Web

Analysis The Metaverse Roadmap Summit was intended to be the initial step toward an Internet dominated by 3D technology, social spaces and economies

Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'

News A 'small number' of customers were affected in a scam that stole more than £1m from customer accounts

O2 finalising roaming price cuts

News With Orange also offering a new tariff for overseas mobile use, the days of astronomical roaming rates may be over, at least for voice calls

Green is the colour at JavaOne

News Builder: Java coders heading to the US' west coast are being encouraged to choose environmentally friendly forms of transport to get to the convention centre

Samsung Q1

Review Samsung's Q1, the first Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), lacks the portability of a handheld and falls short of the functionality of a notebook. Unfortunately, it doesn't add anything that would compensate...

Build a scalable DNS infrastructure

Help/HowTo Learn to build an internal DNS infrastructure that will scale with your business

UK lottery site hit by high demand

News Speed up, sweet Chariot

Open source specialists offered tech support bounty

News OpenLogic will pay developers to provide high-level support for scores of open source products, but not everyone is convinced by the idea

Beatles judge finds iTunes 'nothing to get hung about'

Analysis The long and winding road to Apple Computer's victory over Apple Corps hinged on a judge's interpretation of what constitutes distributing music on physical media

ViewSonic VX2025wm

Review ViewSonic's VX2025wm isn't the most adjustable of monitors, but this 20in. widescreen display offers excellent performance and built-in speakers, making it the best deal in its category.

Poor-quality data is biggest CIO headache

News Business-intelligence decisions are often being made using poor quality, out-of-date or incorrect information because of a failure to weed out bad data

Symantec admits to customer support woes

News The company is having problems with support for its Veritas email archiving product, but says it is a victim of its own success

Symantec: Our security savvy will beat Microsoft

News As Windows Live OneCare arrives, Symantec will rely on 'out-innovating' Microsoft

BitTorrent inks studio distribution deal

News Warner Bros. is the first major entertainment company to embrace BitTorrent's distribution system, which has been widely used to illegally swap copies of copyrighted movies

Sony unveils UK PS3 pricing, availability

News E3: The console's technology is a huge step above the PS2, and that will show up in the retail price

Apple's head lawyer steps down

Nancy Heinen, who was Apple's highest-ranking female executive, joins high-level departures from the hardware and software sides of the company

Symantec eyes ID management

News Symantec is considering a range of managed services, including backups, data archiving and email

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