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Archive - 10 Jan 2005

Open source reshaping the services market

Feature Builder: The services market associated with enterprise computing is being shaken up massively by the rise of open source software

Zend sharpens PHP's enterprise focus

News Builder: The company which was founded by the creators of PHP has released a new tool set which it claims should simplify administration of PHP servers on corporate networks

AOL boosts Web storage

News In an apparent attempt to bring in more Web users, AOL has increased the amount of online storage space it offers customers to 100MB

FOAM dives into open source waters

News Builder: The developers of the FOAM software for simulating fluid flow have made the project open source

Business Objects patent case gets go-ahead

News Builder: The software maker's case against MicroStrategy for alleged infringement of a 2001 patent has been given the green light by an American federal appeals court

Scottish Executive shuns e-services

News Online services for registering births and deaths could be vulnerable to fraud, warns the Scottish Executive

Skype 'to seriously cut into telcos' profitability'

News Skype's VoIP business model will lead to all voice calls being free, and the profitability of incumbent telcos dropping significantly, according to a recent study

SanDisk flashes new USB-compatible card

News A new card that can plug into both Secure Digitial card slots and USB ports without the need for adaptors has been shown off by SanDisk

Winner: Axis wireless Webcam competition

News If your name's not on the list, or you forgot to enter, then don't worry as you could still win one of the other cool prizes on offer

Post Office tackles UK telcos

News The Post Office has launched a domestic telephony service but the plan has been rubbished by analysts. A broadband product may still follow, however

Russia's cybercrime-fighting Bond villain

Q&A Antivirus guru Eugene Kaspersky says criminals are responsible for an increasing amount of malware

Gates fights gremlins at CES

Video Bill Gates ran into more a fair number of problems while demonstrating Windows XP Media Center at CES - this video showcases some of his bloopers

Microsoft calls in police over employee 'abuse' of discount programme

News Seven Microsoft IT support staff have been fired for allegedly abusing the company's cut-price software scheme

LG eyes corporate mobile phone users

Video South Korean electronics maker LG Electronics shows off its new VX8000 cellular phone, which acts as a combination camera, DSL modem and MP3 player

Hitachi increases drive capacity

News The Japanese hardware behemoth's storage division has unveiled upgrades to its minidrives, which are to be targeted at mobiles, as well as to its standard-size drives

IBM accused of trademark infringement

News Brief: IBM could be forced to apologise over adverts it ran in China

Spammers 'hit schools with DoS attacks'

News The UK education sector is struggling to cope with the power wielded by today's spammers, claims one security firm

RTFM: How to manage documentation

Feature There is an art to effectively making determinations about the value of process documentation, and in the process, transforming a potential scourge into a possible blessing

Companies' $180m email storage bill

News Brief: Fears of compliance legislation are driving companies to spend many millions of dollars archiving their email mountains

SEC raises tensions at the Googleplex

News Securities and Exchange Commission filings from over 10% of the company's employees have apparently laid the groundwork for dissent in the ranks

Firefox: The ultimate test for open source?

Leader The adoption of the Mozilla Foundation's browser by millions of non-technical users could be the biggest test yet of open source development

Politicians demand fresh start for patent directive

News More than 60 MEPs from 13 countries have asked the EU to go back to the drawing board on the software patent directive

Demon Internet founder trial postponed

News The trial of Demon Internet's founder, accused of blackmail and email intercepting, has been put back

Winners: D-Link wireless router kit competition

News If your name's not on the list, or you forgot to enter, then don't worry as you could still win one of the other cool prizes on offer

Check Point InterSpect 610

Review Although it's beyond the means of most small businesses, InterSpect is worth consideration by larger enterprises concerned about growing internal threats to their networks.

Big Blue acquires SRD

News In its seventh information-management related acquisition in under four years, IBM has bought SRD software, and plans to integrate the company's software into its business intelligence tools line

Standard tries to unlock USB keys' potential

News A standard for application hosting on USB drives has been created by a Californian company and is already being backed by software makers

Intel: Software radios will rule the wireless waves

News WiMax, ultrawideband and other wireless connections will be vital to the processors of the future, says Craig Barrett

Microsoft readies Windows update

News Redmond is to issue three 'critical' patches as part of its monthly software patching cycle

Exploit code increases threat of IE flaws

News A security firm has warned that exploit code has been released which shows hackers how to exploit previously reported flaws in IE - even XP SP2 users are not safe, and Microsoft does not yet have a...