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Blog Friday 14/10/2005 You can't make it up - but they can. Figures from the Home Office released today say that 73 percent of the population are in favour of identity cards - and even if a combined...
Symantec flaw found by TippingPoint bounty hunters
News A flaw in Symantec's Veritas NetBackup series has been found and patched through a TippingPoint initiative
Microsoft 'lends security expertise' to Nigeria
News No-one knows more about security than we do, says Microsoft's European president
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment A torrent of Brian Sewell, a bafflement of Home Office propaganda, a bewilderment of broadband and as fine a piece of NHS nitwittery as you could find. Just another week in Mondo Rupert
Libraries net IT funding for 'excluded' groups
News The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council is awarding each library between £10,000 and £20,000 for wireless hotspots, satellite linkups on mobile libraries and interactive whiteboards
Bank IT 'needs restructuring'
News Current systems give the impression banks don't care - and that has a direct impact on sales, according to Forrester
Government unveils cut-price ID card
News The £30 card is aimed at lower-income groups, but questions remain over the pricing of the full-blown ID card scheme
Kai-Fu Lee trial to remain in Washington, for now
News Microsoft is jubilant over the decision, a blow to Google's quest to have the case decided in California's more favourable legal climate
Confused promises don't help WiMax
Leader A WiMax marketing hotspot can spread hype, promises and confusion over a radius of 70km. Could we just have cheap mobile broadband, please?
UK rising in the spam charts
News The spread of home broadband and lax virus protection means the UK is generating a greater chunk of the world's spam mountain
HP recalls 135,000 laptops over fire alarm
News An overheating problem in batteries used in some HP laptops can cause their casings to melt and even catch fire
Lloyds TSB to trial two-factor authentication
News The bank will offer a keyring-sized Access Code Device to 30,000 customers in an effort to combat phishing
Computing's video dreams
Comment The video iPod is the latest in a long line of video contraptions doomed to failure
What's behind Oracle's database buy?
Analysis Many in the industry are speculating about Oracle's motives in buying a company that furnishes a key component in MySQL's database, an ever-more-popular Oracle rival
New AMD factory ups the ante against Intel
Feature A massive fabrication facility opening this week could help AMD catch its white whale - 30 percent of the PC chip market
AOL: belle of the ball?
Analysis For Google and Microsoft, AOL represents a huge advertising revenue stream, while Comcast could use AOL's long-standing partnerships
Veritas patches backup flaw
News Symantec-owned Veritas has been hit by its third flaw in less than four months, but this time clients are also affected
Windows exploit code surfaces
News Code exploiting a Windows 2000 bug, disclosed only on Tuesday, is already circulating. A worm is likely to follow shortly
Nokia hits out at WiMax
News The high-speed wireless technology is hype, and bad hype at that, says the head of Nokia's wireless business programme
Bug mars OpenOffice's big day
News OpenOffice.org was five years old on Thursday, but its plans to mark the occasion with the launch of a new version have hit a snag
Linux vendors update their wares
News Ubuntu brings the 'breezy badger' to market, while Mandriva 2006 offers better support for wireless networking
Microsoft vs Google returns to court
News The battle over Kai-Fu Lee is to continue, after Google snubbed a Microsoft settlement offer
Samsung gets massive fine for price fixing
News The world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips will pay a $300m fine after admitting to conspiracy on DRAM prices
