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Archive - 12 May 2005

Software makers ignoring anti-piracy technology in favour of sales

News Have software makers deliberately avoided stringent protection measures to avoid scaring customers away?

Can the US maintain its dominance in IT?

Comment If the US is to maintain its market-leading position in IT, a lot of trends need to be reversed. Major firms aren't bothering with research labs, and academic funding is drying up: what can they...

Mac mini and iPod boost Apple's UK sales

News Analyst firm IDC says that the iPod 'halo effect', and the launch of the Mac mini have helped to grow Apple's market share in Britain

British Library to put more priceless images online

News Images of Shakespearean manuscripts, da Vinci's notes and the Magna Carta are to become more accessible through an updated online system

Mobile email market 'still wide open'

News The market for mobile email devices is still wide open, despite the apparent dominance of the Blackberry, according to a Nokia executive

Gates: Cracking the mobile market

Q&A Microsoft has just launched a new version of Windows Mobile. We sat down with Bill Gates to talk about the mobile market, mobile gaming and cooperating with the open source community

Ignorance is bliss in telecoms torpor

Leader We can't blame small businesses and sole traders for being clueless about the latest telecommunications terms - operators aren't giving them good reasons to take an interest

Government warns of IPsec VPN flaw

News Brief: Companies using IPsec VPNs may be vulnerable to attack, via a flaw in an encryption sub-protocol

RSA issues patch for Web authentication tool

News Brief: RSA's Authentication Agent for Web for Internet Information Service is vulnerable and needs to be updated

Defending their copyright with your taxes

Analysis Should software companies be allowed to use a publicly funded legal system to combat piracy whilst eschewing the technology that exists to stamp it out?

Firefox video campaign storms the Web

News Witty promotional videos featuring people's extreme reaction to discovering Firefox are spreading fast online

Small firms baffled by telecoms terms

News Mention 3G, Wi-Fi or VoIP to the manager of a small business and you'll get a baffled look, according to a study that calls on the telecoms industry to raise its game

Acer TravelMate 3004WTMi

Review Acer's latest ultraportable notebook delivers excellent performance and good battery life if you use the bigger 6-cell battery. But if you need optical storage on the move, you'll have to carry an...

Picking BlackBerrys to enable the mobile office

News Mobile technology helps GMTV cope with schedule changes and respond quickly to world events

W3C launches mobile standards push

News Builder: Two working groups have been formed by the standards body to push the adoption of its standards for browsing on mobile devices

US anti-spyware bill rises from the ashes

News After dying an untimely death last year, a bill seeking to ban spyware has been brought back to life by the US congress

Bigger, faster midrange storage from IBM on the way

News A 67TB, 4Gbps TotalStorage system is on the way from the hardware and services firm. It is designed to operate with everything from HPUX and Solaris to Windows

Microsoft moves to clarify licensing

News The software leviathan is aiming to cut its 100-page document on product licensing guidelines in half with a simplified pricing structure

Blair reshuffles IT

News The latest Westminster reshuffle has seen Alun Michael, previously the minister for rural affairs responsible for the fox-hunting ban, being given responsibility for e-commerce