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Blog Thursday 12/1/2005 Andy Grove's got a lot to answer for. OK, so he steered Intel from a tiny start-up to one of the monsters of modern technology, but didn't he realise the responsibilities...
Google supercharges its Mini
News Brief: Companies who want to get to grips with their internal documents can now buy a more powerful search application from Google, but the extra power comes at a price
Check Point on the way to a more secure future
Q&A Security systems need to be intelligent and proactive, not reacting to yesterday's threat
Judge dreads software patents
News An Appeals Court judge has questioned whether software patents should be granted, and has criticised the US for allowing 'anything under the sun' to be patented
Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
News As Becta begins a review of Microsoft's pricing for schools and colleges, IT professionals working in the sector are adamant that they're paying too much
Intel's Midas man
Q&A He led the Pentium team, and had a major hand in Centrino... what's next for Anand Chandrasekher?
UK suffers blow in fight against high-tech tax fraud
News The European Court of Justice has thrown out UK efforts to stop companies claiming VAT rebates on goods that had been used in fraud scams
The best democracy money can buy
Leader The US and Canada are churning under scandalous revelations of big business buying political influence. It's about time we stirred some mud of our own
Spammer looks to cut jail time with guilty plea
News A spammer in the US looks set to plead guilty as part of a plea bargain in what started as the first Can-Spam prosecution
Microsoft further scales back Mac plans
News Days after promising extended support for Office on the Mac, Microsoft has pulled the plug on Windows Media Player on the platform
QuickTime patch on the rocks
News Apple has offered a removal tool for its latest media player patch after users reported problems
ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost
News The data retention directive contains some serious flaws but the most serious is that it does not make clear who will pay for it, experts say
Anti-spyware group finalises detection plans
News Six months after its formation, the security coalition has finalised its spyware 'risk model description'
Yahoo free speech battle thrown out
News Was France right to order Yahoo to block French citizens from accessing Nazi material? Nearly six years later, US judges can't agree
Microsoft scrambles to end XP support panic
News Microsoft has confirmed that it will continue to support the consumer version of Windows XP after the end of this year, despite notices on its Web site to the contrary
