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Blog Friday 12/5/2006 The law is another area where I lack understanding - which, unfortunately, is no excuse. Take the sorry case of UK hacker Gary McKinnon, whose exploits on US computers have...
Adult industry welcomes .XXX domain rejection
News Creating an Internet red light district goes against the adult industry's desire to make adult content more mainstream, says one insider. But the company that pushed for .XXX insists the idea had...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Mustard-flavoured monkey mobiles, trombone-playing BT executives and the remarkable case of the chameleon journalist mark a week to remember...
Regulators won't act over retail roaming charges
News Roaming Rip-Offs: European regulators say that market pressure on mobile companies is enough to keep prices in check, a view that isn't shared by the European Commission
Smashing India's language barriers
Photo India is a unique country with unique communication problems – no surprise in a country with more than a thousand languages
Sainsbury's hypes Skype
News The tie-up could be a turning point in bringing VoIP to a mass market, but some doubt whether the general public is willing to boot up a PC to make phone calls
i-mate JAMin
Review The JAMin's compact dimensions will appeal to anyone looking for a functional yet convenient handheld/phone.
Smartphones are making life easier for field engineers
Feature Field techs now have a better option than the mobile — a GRPS-enabled PDA that receives automated field assignments from a job-logging server
Blog it and they will come – or will they?
Feature They might be easy to set up, but creating a decent blog that your organisation can be proud of is a lot harder than you'd imagine
Google needs a public charter
Leader 'Don't be evil' is a good start, but Google could be so much more
O2 undercuts rivals on roaming fees
News O2 has taken the lead in the race to make European roaming tariffs more affordable — and avoid sanctions from the EC
FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux
News The Unix descendent will soon be able to match Linux feature for feature, with GNOME desktop support expected this year, according to a core developer
Should IT security be separate from IT?
Feature The protection of your company's infrastructure could be improved by creating a separate department with sole responsibility for all aspects of IT security
Nasa hacker: Whistleblower or menace?
News Talkback: Opinions about Gary McKinnon, who faces extradition to the US, are divided between those who see him as an inoffensive bumbler and those who say he is a danger to the public
Don't be a victim of identity theft
Feature Identity theft is on the increase, to the tune of 10 million victims in the US and $50bn (£26.7bn) in costs. Share this list of preventive measures with your end users, friends, and family to help...
Putting your brain on a microchip
Feature Despite false starts, cognitive computing research is finally bearing fruit, and billions of pounds of research is flowing in
IBM backs £54m supercomputer centre
News The research centre will reduce the size of transistors and other devices to only a few nanometres
Power-hungry PCs waste £61m in electricity
News Large companies could make significant savings by adopting a 'green' strategy — not to mention the environmental benefits
Lawsuit seeks to block Google settlement
News Web sites are seeking compensation for revenues lost to an epidemic of fraudulent ad traffic, but the current settlement would pay half of one percent of their losses
Garages seek compensation for MOT IT problems
News The government will consider reimbursing garages after outages in the expensive new system left them unable to work
Ohio University suffers massive security breach
News More than 200,000 people may have been affected, including past and present students as well as school employees
Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IE
News The Microsoft chief fired a shot at its search-engine rival, also touching on open source, IBM, start-ups and the secret of his company's success
