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Archive - 15 Jan 2004

Playing silly buffers: How bad programming lets viruses in

Feature The buffer overflow is the mechanism of choice for the discerning malware merchant. So what is it and why does it overflow?

BT finally gets on board with 1Mbps broadband

News Better late than never, Britain's largest ADSL provider is offering new and existing customers a faster broadband product

Carphone Warehouse to resell 3G service

News The mobile phone retailer will be the exclusive seller of Nokia's 7600 handset, which will use 3's 3G network - but don't expect video calling

Poor performance 'cost e-tailers £300m' over Christmas

News Downtime and slow downloads cost UK e-tailers valuable business over the festive period, says a monitoring company

It's time vendors ate their own penguin food

Comment How long till a vendor commits to a wholesale internal rollout of destkop Linux?

PS2 sales surpass 70 million

News Sony has passed a sales milestone for its games console, though pre-Christmas sales were down

BT: Broadband coverage no longer the big issue

News Telcos and the public sector must stimulate demand for broadband, rather than worry about the number of people able to access the service, says the UK's incumbent telco

Intel scores revenue record

News The chip giant made a profit of $2.2bn last quarter, despite being hit by a $611m charge

Wi-Fi market marches ahead

News Spending on Wi-Fi equipment surged dramatically last year, as the technology headed into the mainstream

Welcome to the world of RFID

Comment Imagine going through the supermarket checkout in 30 seconds or remotely ascertaining the contents of your cupboards

Cyberstamps get a delivery date

News Businesses will be able to design their own stamps as part of a new scheme from the Royal Mail

Intel forms nanotech alliance to improve memory

News The chipmaker has signed a deal with start-up Nanosys to work on memory chips' technological stumbling blocks

Desktop PC popularity 'to plummet' by 2007

News In three years, less than half of corporate users will be reliant on a desktop PC, according to the Meta Group

Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'

News The increasing reliance on IP networks in critical infrastructure organisations such as banks and power stations could mean trouble, Gartner claims

Poor telecoms regulation 'costing UK £20bn'

News Britain's BT-dominated telecoms industry needs a regulatory overhaul if it is to compete in the world market, argues a Cable and Wireless-sponsored study

ISS scales up spam filtering

News Internet Security Systems has spent $32.8m acquiring security-software firm Cobion

Salesforce ties up with Office

News A new feature in the CRM vendor's software lets customers create documents with Microsoft's Office suite

Remote working heightens security

Feature The advance of SSL has boosted corporate adoption of VPNs

IDC predicts utility computing boom

News Spending on utility computing will double this year, according to the analyst firm

Linux developers warned to watch their backs

News An Australian lawyer has cautioned open-source developers to protect themselves or face being enmeshed in the web of Linux lawsuits

How to migrate data from an old PC to a new one

Tech Guide Bought a new PC recently? Then you’ll want to read our step-by-step guide to data migration.

HP grabs PC crown

News Hewlett-Packard snatched the PC market-leader crown back from Dell in 2003's fourth quarter

Yahoo dumps Google as search war intensifies

News Yahoo has developed its own algorithmic search technology so that it can drop search partner Google

IBM packs 64 Xeons into a single server

News Big Blue is betting on the future of high-end servers, packing 64 of Intel's Xeon chips into a product due out next year

Intel delays next-generation notebook chip

News The chipmaker says its Dothan chip will not be ready to launch next month

Judge upholds patent ruling against Microsoft

News Microsoft's Internet Explorer infringes a patent held by small developer Eolas, according to a US judge

HP earns $2.5bn from Linux

News Selling Linux-related products is proving lucrative for Hewlett-Packard

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