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Archive - 13 Oct 2000

France attacks Britain over Echelon

News France points the finger at Britain for its involvement in Echelon

Merrill Lynch staff sacked over porn, say reports

News Stockbrokers Merrill Lynch gives staff the boot over email abuse

By any other name...

Comment Names convey meanings; our choice of names determines the meaning of what we say. An inappropriate name gives people the wrong idea. A rose by any name would smell as sweet -- but if you call it...

ZDNet ADSL reader poll

News Have you applied for an ADSL connection from BT? Have you got it yet?

Half all small firms will be hacked by 2003

News One in two small companies will get hacked by 2003, says a Gartner study

Microsoft bigwig slams Oracle and Sun

News The head of Microsoft Europe disses the software giant's rivals as 'devious'

Dell recalls 27,000 notebook batteries

News Batteries in some Latitude and Inspiron models are being pulled on fears they could break into flames. One incident reported so far

Sega adds DVD to Dreamcast

News In theory, throwing in a multi-region DVD player balances the differences between PS2 and Dreamcast, but will it work?

Sun: Open source for the masses

News Developers, rev your engines. Sun is jettisoning nine million lines of StarOffice code into open source on Friday

The Day Ahead: Scenes from Intel's e-business lovefest

News Is it back to the 80s with Intel and Huey Lewis and the News? Or did we catch a glimpse of the 'new, new computer industry'?

France attacks Britain over Echelon

News France points the finger at Britain for its involvement in Echelon

Jane Wakefield: A spoonful of Internet medicine

News Has the backlash against the Internet finally begun?

UPDATE: Oil price fears hit tech stocks

News Tech stocks take another bashing as Middle East crisis sparks fears over oil prices

Technological revolution causing depression

News Email, instant messaging, voicemail, faxes and text messaging are creating a 24 hour office

Taxi company hails 'robot' bookings

News An Australian taxi company has employed a voice recognition technology system to take bookings, but officials say no human staff will be made redundant as a result

Venture capitalists to tech bigwigs: Mea culpa

News Venture capitalists take some blame for the implosion of 'dot-bombs' they pushed to go public too soon

Microsoft .Net for Linux?

News An SEC filing says Corel could port .Net to Linux. And -- surprise -- Microsoft was threatening to sue Corel, not vice versa

Why Microsoft might help Linux

Comment Could it be even vaguely possible, even thinkable, that Microsoft might be about to start developing a version of Visual Basic that generates Linux code?

Scour files for bankruptcy protection

News Hopes to "recapitalise, restructure and improve its business protection"

Software as a service: More than another buzzword?

Comment The problem: Just about every software vendor, save Microsoft, claims it already offers software as a service. In an uncharacteristic show of modesty, Microsoft says that it's only on the cusp of...

Landmark ruling in email case

News Harassing email pest linked to Hotmail account after £100,000 investigation

News Burst: Oil price fears hit tech stocks

News Tech stocks take another bashing as Middle East crisis sparks fears over oil prices

A Year Ago: The future of chip design

News First published: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:01:04 GMT

Tiny MediaBook Extreme

Review Despite its 933MHz desktop CPU, the MediaBook Extreme fails to outshine current 750MHz SpeedStep notebooks.

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