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Blog Friday 12/04/2002 The trouble with Microsoft stories is that once you've had a couple, you might as well round off the hat-trick. So: two words. Xbox sales. They're not, er, very good. They're...
Mozilla release could trigger battle of the browsers
News The open-source browser is set for official release in a few weeks, opening up another chapter in the ongoing browser wars
KPMG takes top spot in IT Anthems
News Consulting firm KPMG has risen to the top spot in the IT Anthem charts; McKinsey & Company, now at number two, has another reason to crow
Open-source MP3 competitor goes mobile with Zaurus
News The open-source audio format run by the Ogg Vorbis project has managed to get its first mobile player bundled with the Linux-based Zaurus
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Getting dust in your eye could be something quite different when Berkeley's nanotechnology comes to fruition.
Web-based teleconferencing cuts the costs
News Setting up a conference call at a purpose-built Web site will make this service cheaper and more flexible, says Conf-it
News Schmooze: No-frills broadband draws ISP ire
News BT laid out its cunning plan, Belluzzo explained why it's hard to work with Gates and Ballmer, and AMD readied its anti-Intel giant robot squad
UK tech spending should be solid in 2002
News More than two-thirds of IT managers at major UK companies expect their technology spending in 2002 to be greater or equal to last year's budgets
IBM hopes to toast Sun with new appliance
News IBM will next week begin shipping what it hopes will be a killer appliance - the xSeries Hosting Appliances server
AMD's new chip: Metaron?
News They may sound like Japanese giant robot cartoon characters, but Metaron and Opteron are among the names AMD is considering for its upcoming 64-bit processors
Sun keeps plugging at thin clients
News Despite lacklustre success thus far, Sun Microsystems is forging ahead to supplant full-fledged PCs with stripped-down machines called thin clients
IT pros: A life of unpaid overtime?
News Companies are squeezing more out of their employees, even if that requires overtime or coming in on weekends
Why Web services will kill HTTP - eventually
Comment HTTP has been the foundation of the Web since the beginning. But it won't cut it for complex peer-to-peer apps and Web services. So is HTTP dead? Not yet, says Larry, but in time something better...
MEMS the word
Comment Microscopic moving parts may be the core components of the next industrial revolution, but how will we get there?
HP exec hits back at vote critics
News Bob Wayman has warned employees that leaking information about the merger will be prosecuted to the 'fullest extent of applicable law'
Buffer overloads: The big security hole
Comment Microsoft's apps are vulnerable. So are Oracle's. All sorts of programs can be brought to their knees by a buffer-overload attack. Developers could protect us from this threat, so why aren't they?
IBM leads charge on holistic computing
News The technology giant is asking its engineers to think holistically as it launches a push towards autonomic computing - databases that re-examine themselves to increase efficiency
Australian company touts Web payment system
News Pico-Pay aims to provide users with access to subscription content through building up credits by viewing advertisements
Wearable mobile phones hit US market
News Sprint has become the first US carrier to launch a wearable mobile phone, and many other companies have their own fashion-conscious models on the way
Mac Office to get spring clean
News Microsoft outlines plans to issue bug fixes and updates to its Mac OS X version of Office, but stays mum on whether it'll fill in a missing e-mail piece
Superfast DSL hits the (metropolitan) streets
News Easynet has launched its promised 8mbps broadband service, together with a Symmetric DSL service for high upstream data rates
IBM shares fall on SEC worries
News Investors have been rattled by IBM's profit warning and the news that the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating its accounting practices
Economist testifies on Microsoft remedy
News In expert testimony, an economist asserts that Microsoft must give its rivals 'freedom to innovate'
Five years ago: Grove details new Intel DIB architecture
News Intel finally went public on the radical new architecture required by the Pentium II processor
ViewSonic VG191b
Review ViewSonic's VG191b is a good display with a large screen area and enough adjustment to suit most working environments. There are other similar displays available, so shop around, but the VG191b...
