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Archive - 11 Sep 2003

Football clubs to get Wi-Fi

News Fans and businessmen will soon be able to surf while they watch at 72 Football League clubs, starting with Reading FC

'Privacy zone' blocks camera phones

News Iceberg Systems' product, now in testing, could automatically switch off camera phones to protect industrial secrets and private areas

Some do's and don'ts for vendor selection

Help/HowTo How to make a vendor choice you will not live to regret

EU delays vote on 'Euro-DMCA'

News A vote on the EU's proposed directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, which has been compared to a draconian US law, has been pushed back to November

UK laptop and digital camera demand stays strong

News UK retailer Dixons says British shoppers are continuing to splash their cash on high-tech kit

'Extreme geek' resells iTunes song

News An iTunes customer says he has successfully resold a song, in a bid to prove a point about digital music rights

Spam blacklist to introduce fees

News An Australian spam blacklist will soon be available only to subscribers

Oracle rules out raising bid

News The business software firm will not be increasing its hostile offer for rival PeopleSoft, says Oracle's executive vice president

Oracle reaffirms love for Linux

Feature Oracle's transition to the open-source operating system is substantial, says a senior executive

Open-source leaders: 'We are accountable'

News Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond have responded to SCO's attacks on Linux in an escalating war of words

Linux developers shift the course of an industry

Comment Geeks' adoption of Linux started a slow-moving but unstoppable juggernaut

New Windows flaw similar to MSBlast bug

News Three new security holes are the latest in a string of critical weaknesses identified in Windows recently

Anti-P2P software 'spies' on user data

News A far-reaching project for stopping copyrighted song-swapping could raise serious privacy objections, not least from the ISPs who will be expected to implement it

P2P group to pay girl's RIAA bill

News An industry group representing Grokster, Limewire and other peer-to-peer companies is offering financial assistance to a child sued over file-sharing

IBM in bundling deal with Red Flag Linux

News A database bundling deal could help IBM in the competition to enter the potentially huge Chinese software market

Intel delays Centrino Wi-Fi upgrade

News Users face a longer wait to connect their Centrino notebooks to faster wireless networks

Vint Cerf hears VoIP calling

Q&A Regarded by some as the father of the Internet, Vint Cerf picks voice over IP as a rising star

Sun may shelter Java users from SCO

News Sun is considering protecting its Java licensees from SCO's Linux lawsuits

3Com to shut Dublin plant

News About 1,000 jobs will be lost as the network gear maker outsources its manufacturing to a Singapore-based company

Patch now to beat virus

News People being warned to patch their Windows PCs, with a recently discovered vulnerability likely to see a virus similar to MSBlast emerge in the next couple of days

Oracle evacuates conference after bomb scare

News About 10,000 people attending the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco were ordered to leave the convention centre on Wednesday after threatening calls were received

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