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Archive - 14 Jan 2005

Deperimeterisation celebrates first birthday

News The concept of making data secure at every level, rather than just securing the edges of networks, is gaining ground, according to the Jericho Forum

BT network crash takes firms offline

News Problems at Bletchley have prevented 70,000 BT business customers from getting broadband access to the Internet

High noon for the spammers

News The state of Texas has filed suit against two men accused of being among the worlds most prolific spammers, because 'Texans are fed up'

IT budget growth hits four year high

News Brief: Security and business intelligence applications are top of the agenda this year

Government strategy pushes IT professionalism

News Ian Watmore has inaugurated the UK government's CIO Council, which aims to promote the role of chief information officer within the public sector

Bezos' space exploration company sets up base camp

News After Hours: Amazon's founder has quietly announced plans to use a ranch in northern Texas as a base and testing facility to help enable an enduring human presence in space

Five years of Ballmer, and still no verdict

Analysis It was five years ago this week that Bill Gates handed over the title of Microsoft CEO to Steve Ballmer, but what difference has it made?

BT's flights of fancy

Leader Just how confident is BT about its future in the retail broadband market if it had to resort to playing the free flights card?

Microsoft's latest patches: What you need to know

Help/HowTo Redmond recently released some 'critical' patches - we take a closer look at what they are and how critical they are

Man arrested in BitTorrent probe

News Brief: A man being held by Hong Kong authorities is suspected of sharing files over the BitTorrent network

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Friday 14/1/2005 Normal office life is returning at last, and there are even a couple of post-Christmas events to tempt the overseasoned journalistic palate. The indefatigable Ingrid Marson nobly...

Microsoft: DRM Trojan hole is not a vulnerability

News Microsoft has responded to security warnings about its Media Player by saying that Windows XP SP2 will protect its customers from malware

Speed improvements expected in KDE 4

News The next major version of KDE may run up to 30 percent faster, due to improvements in how its graphical framework uses resources

Linux company chalks up success with teachers

News One of the hits of this year's BETT trade show is a company selling an open source desktop operating system for schools

Ofcom sees £4bn ultrawideband world

News The communications watchdog predicts a golden future for ultrawideband - if key decisions are made swiftly and well

Winners: Intego security suite for Mac competition

News If your name's not on the list, or you forgot to enter, then don't worry as you could still win one of the other cool prizes on offer

Samsung handset responds to movement

News Samsung's latest phone features an 'accelerometer', which allows users to make calls by drawing numbers in the air

Google hacking expected to boom in 2005

News CyberTrust is warning that all Internet-connected devices, even Web cams, must be treated as a potential security threat

Apple Mac OS X Tiger: a first look

Preview Due in mid-2005, Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 promises more than 200 features.

Oracle lays off PeopleSoft staff by post

News The employment uncertainty will be over for many PeopleSoft employees this weekend - they will either receive a contract or their P45 by post

Microsoft users to test patches

News Redmond is rolling out a programme where trusted users can try out security patches on test systems and report back with any implementation problems

Linux vendors release security patches

News Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft have all released patches for their Linux products to fix security flaws - some of which are rated 'critical'

Dell UltraSharp 1905FP

Review This 19in. LCD has all the right features: adjustability, excellent image quality and extras such as USB ports. All that, plus a reasonable price, makes the Dell UltraSharp 1905FP a winner.

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