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Blog Friday 12/9/2003 Two days ago, we got a press release about a new, mildly clever and probably pointless technology that claims to prevent mobile phones with cameras from taking pictures in...
Road-tax evaders targeted with new tech
News The DVLA may bring in more automatic number-plate-identification technology to reclaim some of the annual £200m lost to evaders
Office 2003 to arrive early
News Some customers will get access to the revision of Office and OneNote on Monday, as Microsoft hails a major transition to XML
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Throwing stones at those caged in glass while reading over shoulders on the train
'Homeless hacker' free till court date
News A hacker accused of breaching The New York Times' internal network has been flown to New York to face charges
Oracle's earnings hit target
News A drop in sales of new software licences failed to stop Oracle's first-quarter earnings meeting estimates
3G threatened by BT mobile-streaming tech
News A way of streaming high-resolution video clips over standard mobile networks, developed by some of BT's top researchers, is set for commercial deployment
CSR debuts low-cost Bluetooth printing
News CSR has teamed with Cypress Semiconductor on a Bluetooth adapter for USB printers, which could take the technology mainstream
Nanotubes set to take off
News A manufacturing company expects to increase production of the tiny tubes to commercial volumes during the next two years
New standard fine-tunes Web ad targeting
News A new way to target and track digital ads is slowly gaining industry support
Flash memory sales driven by Nand
News A drop in Nand memory prices will drive sales of flash memory cards this year, says research firm Gartner
Symantec to sell anti-attack servers
News Symantec will next week unveil a new line of security servers aimed at better protecting networks from attacks
PalmSource chief slates Pocket PC devices
News Handhelds running Microsoft's Pocket PC are 'dreary,' according to the head of PalmSource
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F828: a first look
Preview Sony's forthcoming digital SLR-style camera has an 8-megapixel CCD, a high-quality zoom lens and a semi-pro feature set.
Disk-drive industry sees brighter future in store
News Hard-drive makers are expressing optimism about the industry's health, as demand grows and consolidation means less competition
Kazaa founders tout P2P VoIP
Q&A Kazaa's creators are transplanting their peer-to-peer model to the telephone industry
Windows Server 2003 plagued by incompatibility
News Businesses running Windows NT that want to upgrade to Server 2003 face a stumbling block in the form of SQL Server 7
Romania vies for India's outsourcing crown
News Romania and other Eastern European countries represent an untapped source of cheap IT labour, says a new report
Grid computing 'overhyped' - Fiorina
News This week's rhetoric on grid computing has emphasised hype over reality, according to HP's chief executive
Fuel cell phones far from reality, says report
News A research firm says it is unlikely miniature fuel cells will be providing power for handhelds or mobiles next year
Sony and CA protect notebook data
News Sony and Computer Associates have released a system that automatically backs up notebooks' data when they connect to a network
Price war heats up over 1Mbps broadband
News Bulldog is making its own faster broadband packages more affordable, as the launch of BT Wholesale's 1Mbps ADSL product approaches
