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Archive - 16 Apr 2002

GoldMine Business Contact Manager

Review When it comes to building and maintaining a hefty contact database, this solid, all-around customer relationship manager is perfect for growing businesses.

Internet Backplane Protocol - Design, Details and Desire

Feature The Internet Backplane Protocol -- IBP -- is the first attempt to use Internet concepts to build a global storage network.

Netscape, not IE, put on new CompuServe

News AOL's secondary online service is to have Netscape bundled as the default browser, a move likely to further strain its relationship with Microsoft

New cumulative Microsoft patch fixes two critical threats

Feature Significantly Microsoft has responded to customer complaints and extended a security patch to NT4

CRM: Dream or nightmare?

Feature CRM software is the must-have software application of our days. And yet, the majority of CRM projects are failures. What is going on?

Piracy blamed for drop in music sales

News Record industry association argues that MP3-sharing services have created a new generation of fans who expect to get all their music for free

Web consortium issues privacy standard

News The W3C endorses the Platform for Privacy Preferences, a standard for automating privacy decisions online

Novell makes key changes to NetWare certifications

Feature Constant change has always been part of the IT certification game. What do Novell's latest changes to its popular CNE qualifications mean?

Philips sees technology upturn

News Is the worst over for the IT sector? Consumer electronics firm Philips thinks it's possible, after seeing higher demand for many of its products

3G delays will help ARM - chief executive

News The UK chip designer says its drop in royalties is only temporary, and the 3G processors are already helping boost the bottom line

Google protects its search results

News The search company has blocked users for the use of automated queries, but many of them are not individually responsible for breaking the rules

Adobe ships new Photoshop

News The software is the first Photoshop to support Apple's Mac OS X, and contains plenty of little improvements. In fact, Adobe's biggest problem could be helping users find all the new features

Unix server battle heats up

Feature IBM and Sun Microsystems next week will release dueling Unix servers one notch below their top-end models, fueling the flames in a price and market-share war

Amazon defends used book sales

News After criticism from the Authors Guild, Amazon argues that its secondhand book sales are good for authors and sellers alike

Poor IT security costs British business billions

News A government-backed report discovers underinvestment in IT security, and finds that the number of firms suffering serious computer attacks has nearly doubled from two years ago

Microsoft expo tunes into the home

News At its latest engineering conference, Microsoft will be outlining its plans to enhance home PCs

Restraints relaxed in CD anti-copying tech

News After anger over technology that won't let consumers copy tracks from CDs to PCs, a copy-protection company is to allow songs to be sent to friends for a limited period

Will patent disputes spoil the Web's success?

Feature The growth and success of the Internet and the Web demonstrate how successful open standards can be to create rapidly adopted, broadly available, and extremely useful technology applications

Intel to pay in chip patent dispute

News After more than four years, Intel and Intergraph have come to a settlement in their patent suit

IM-monitoring tool to nest in Lotus

News Employers will be able to monitor employees' instant messaging on Sametime by using FaceTime's audit function

Philips: Microsoft's backing DVD+RW

News As the battle to be the dominant rewritable DVD format continues, Philips claims that Microsoft is to support its DVD+RW in future Windows software

Freeserve cuts broadband price

News Fresh from accusing BTopenworld of anti-competitive behaviour, Freeserve slashes the start-up cost of its DIY broadband service

Q&A: Meet the new spam buster

News Groove Networks claims its collaboration software can help block spam getting through to corporate networks

Microsoft: Web services stuck in first gear

Feature For all the buzz around Web services, it will remain just an idea until businesses figure out how and why to use such services

Intel price cuts usher in new Pentium 4

News Lower prices pave the way for faster Pentiums, which will arrive with more advanced chipsets. AMD is responding with lower prices of its own, and an updated Athlon

Sun software: Now it's ONE for all

News Sun has rebranded its software so that all of it falls under the Sun ONE umbrella

Five years ago: Macro viruses spreading like wildfire

News Virus infections are on the rise, tripling in US big business over the last year and growing at a rapid clip here in the UK

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