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Archive - 11 May 2004

Britain will 'lead the world' in broadband

News Latest figures for the availability of high-speed services show that the UK is no longer the sick man of the broadband world

New Sasser variant indicates copycat script kiddie

News A new version of the Sasser worm has appeared after the arrest of a teenager suspected of writing the original - but it will not be much of a threat to users who have already patched their systems

MMS firms hope for a sporting chance

News Mobile operators are hoping that Euro 2004 will provide a boost to multimedia messaging services

T-Mobile engages BT in Wi-Fi dogfight

News Mobile workers will have a choice of Wi-Fi networks the next time they're waiting for their flight at some of the UK's largest airports

Ultrawideband: The latest chipset unveiled

Q&A Bruce Watkins, president and COO of Pulse~LINK, talks up a new chipset that promises wireless networking 10 times faster than the fastest available today

New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless

News A chipset designed by ultrawideband startup Pulse~LINK is claimed to do gigabit cable connections, gigabit wireless and networking over the mains - all at the same time

Windows XP Reloaded muddies the SP2 waters

Comment XP Service Pack 2 will bring some much-needed security focus to the OS, but Microsoft still seems unsure about the revenue and roadmap implications

Sun-Microsoft agreement breeds anticipation of integration

Feature Customers are hoping that the two tech giants will move quickly to improve interactions between their at times incompatible technologies

Scaling Google's peaks

Q&A The search company's director of technology, Craig Silverstein, discusses the software underlying its market dominance

Microsoft readies XP SP2 giveaway

News Microsoft says it will give away Service Pack 2 for XP, but remains coy about the exact nature of XP Reloaded

Xerox Phaser 8400B

Review Although the solid-ink-based Xerox Phaser 8400 series offers expandability for a growing small business, its merely fair image quality might disappoint.

Microsoft: Pirate software will not be supported

News After a senior executive said that SP2 would install on bootleg copies of Windows XP, the company has moved to clarify its position

IBM tries to eclipse .Net with open source

News The recent launch of IBM's Office application suite is part of a broader challenge to Microsoft's entire .Net development framework, say industry experts

BT hoovers up broadband punters with 'free' flights

News Subsidised travel could attract more people to BT's broadband range, if they aren't put off by all the conditions

NHS to email x-rays to doctors

News The NHS IT programme has revealed plans to send x-rays and images of scans electronically, starting this summer

Small firm creates supercomputer Thunder

News A company with 55 employees has developed a supercomputer based on 1,024 Itanium 2 servers that ranks among the world's most powerful

Second German arrest 'unrelated to Sasser'

News German authorities have arrested a man suspected of writing a program known as Agobot, which lets an individual control a network of co-opted computers

PeopleSoft builds up $2bn 'poison pill'

News Any company that buys PeopleSoft will be liable for potentially crippling payments because of assurances made to customers

HP unwraps RFID package

News Hewlett-Packard has developed a programme that helps customers plan, start and integrate radio-frequency identification projects

Microsoft executes Wi-Fi U-turn

News The software giant has dropped its entire range of Wi-Fi gear despite growing dominance of the field

Fifth Sasser 'released before arrest'

News The latest variant of the worm contains a warning to unpatched PCs that they are vulnerable to attack