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Blog Friday 15/10/2004 There is always a good deal of give and take behind the scenes in journalism. Take Intel, for example, who gave another site a story yesterday that we might have liked for...
PeopleSoft executive leaves the company
News Ram Gupta was in charge of integrating products from the acquisitions of JD Edwards, but has now left his position at PeopleSoft
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment The report that half-exists, the insect dance that wasn't, Amstrad’s open secrets and two tales of television mayhem? Another week to shame the X-Files
Fake Jacko movie tries to recruit zombies
News Michael Jackson is the latest celebrity to be exploited by hackers, in a hoax which tries to gets users to download a Trojan horse
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
News The World Wide Web Consortium is planning a celebration to mark 10 years of setting specs for the Web - prompting the question, when did the Internet begin?
Google Desktop Search Beta
Preview Google has joined the burgeoning desktop search market with a public beta. We've had a day or so to play with it -- here's our initial report.
BlackBerry can be bitten by DoS attacks
News Long meeting requests can cause the device to reboot, but the flaw cannot be exploited to execute malicious code as had been suggested
Red Hat promotes embedded Linux
News Brief: Red Hat has launched a programme to support embedded deployments of its Enterprise Linux product
Fax error costs EC €100m court case
News One hundred blank sheets of paper have lost the European Commission an important legal battle
Instant messaging could land bosses in jail
News UK firms could be breaking compliance laws by using instant messaging, and banning the applications may not be successful
British ISPs forced to reveal customers' personal data
News British ISPs are being forced to hand over the details of customers accused of copyright infringment after a High Court victory for the BPI
Microsoft angered by game-code piracy
News The software giant is 'aggressively pursuing' the source of leaked Halo 2 game code, which is being distributed by some warez sites
Google's desktop liberation tool
Leader Google's new desktop search tool comes with a surprising feature
Cisco teams up with Big Blue over network security
News The new system will check that any computer being connected to a corporate network that is running the system has the required security patches and antivirus software, and if not will automatically...
Netsky variant uses compression trick
News McAfee has upped its warning level for the latest version of Netsky, which appears to have a Portuguese flavour
Subcutaneous RFID tags upset privacy advocates
News The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a plan to allow hospitals to place RFID tags under patients' skin, much to the chagrin of privacy advocates
Blinkx
Review Blinkx doesn't index your entire hard drive, and the files it misses are the image files most people want to find. We'll wait for the next release of this desktop search tool.
HotBot Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6
Review Lycos's HotBot Desktop provides a glimpse of the future, combining desktop and Internet searches, but other programs actually deliver these features now.
Paris shrugs off open-source plans
News Paris City Council's plans to move to open-source software have been nixed in the short term, as 'it would mean significant additional costs without improving the service'
Maxtor loses another CFO
News To lose one CFO may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two in a year looks like carelessness...
AOL makes desktop search move
News Hot on the heels of Google's announcement of a desktop search beta, AOL has announced that it is testing similar technology alongside its new standalone browser
Intel abandon plans for 4GHz Pentium 4s
News Intel has cancelled the delayed 4GHz Pentium 4 chip and has instead said that it will increase performance by focusing on other chip attributes, rather than just clock speed
Sun 'scorches' Wall Street
News Sun's Q3 performance was better than had been predicted by analysts - ignoring the cash spent paying off Kodak - though it sacked 200 more staff than had been originally planned
Big Blue to let Squadron fly at Sun and HP
News IBM is planning to launch two new top-end servers, in an effort to regain ground lost to both HP and Sun, which should cost 25 percent less than their current equivalents
