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Archive - 10 Mar 2005

World's smallest scanner on display

News CeBIT Digital Living: The Docupen R700 scanner weighs no more than your average pen

Notebook fuel cell a reality this year?

News CeBIT: Another fuel cell prototype has been launched but this time it comes with a firm commitment to launching a finished product this year

Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability

News CeBIT: Companies who choose open source software over Windows for their enterprise resource planning tend to be surprised by the absence of crashes, according to users and vendors

PalmSource pushes on with Linux plans

News The makers of the Palm OS moved a little closer to the open source community this week

Virus writers wreak havoc by the hour

News CeBIT: Kaspersky Labs recently found itself in a 12-hour battle against the creator of the Bagle worm, as virus writers up their game

Fujitsu Siemens lays out nanotech roadmap

News CeBIT: With silicon being pushed its limits, Fujitsu Siemens is backing carbon nanotubes as the future of chips

Contactless payment system crash probed

News Investigations are underway to determine the problem that rendered London Transport's smartcard payment system unusable for much of Thursday morning

Mobiles to get virus protection

News CeBIT: Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky is developing a service to shield some mobile phone users from viruses

Gates: Business technology is 'lagging behind'

News Technological advances move through the consumer space much more quickly than the enterprise space, leaving a lot of room for improvement in current business software, according to the Microsoft...

UK banks in talks to tighten security

News CeBIT: IT security is a major issue at the world's biggest trade show, with RSA revealing it is in high-level discussions with all the big UK banks

Wanadoo reveals VoIP service

News The ISP is to offer cheap voice calls to all of its customers with broadband, with video callling and video-on-demand services to follow

Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call

News CeBIT: SAP's chief executive has called on Europe to break its technological dependency on America through greater investment and innovation

Europe gets CeBIT between its teeth

Leader CeBIT: If technology trade shows are heading for extinction, why is CeBIT 2005 twice as big as Comdex in its heyday?

Proxim ORiNOCO AP-700

Review Tri-band wireless, Power over Ethernet and extensive security and management features make the AP-700 stand out as an affordable, enterprise-grade, wireless access point.

BT fights back against break-up calls

News Chief executive Ben Verwaayen claims that it would be disastrous if Ofcom took the plunge and began the process of splitting BT

Microsoft: Coming from behind

Q&A The software giant is working hard to turn around several battles it's not currently winning. Business software is one, and software piracy in the developing world is another. We spoke to Bill...

SCO was the 'best thing that ever happened' to Linux

News SCO's litigation over Linux was hugely unpopular but there was a big upside, says the chief executive of Open Source Development Labs

Mozilla's future under debate

News Builder: Development problems concerning the Mozilla Suite have led to some soul-searching in the Foundation, with some calling for Firefox to be spun off

Moore has trouble seeing past silicon

News Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel whose eponymous law will celebrate its fortieth anniversary next week, has expressed scepticism over the technologies being lined up to replace silicon

RFID certification plans approved

News CompTIA has given the green light to a training and certification scheme to aid adoption of the wireless tagging technology

Salesforce.com launches on-demand subscription service

News The maker of hosted CRM software is moving away from the client-server-software approach and traditional application development. Its rivals aren't impressed

AMD preps Turion for takeoff

News The chipmaker will launch its Turion notebook processor on Thursday. It is thought that it will probably run faster than its Intel equivalent, but use more power

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