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Archive - 16 Jul 1999

Psion targets corporates in the PDA/PAD market

News Psion is steaming ahead with Web access devices for corporates, but it is avoiding the "Freebie" model that is rapidly catching on in the consumer arena .

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Hola! Rupert to Earth, Rupert to Earth, come in Earth... Apologies for the hiatus in the diary, chaps, but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. In this case, a combination of...

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

News In this issue: Online sage sage, MS gets relaxed then uptight again, the proper use of rudeness, buy this company and Skip, the E-Kangaroo.

Hackers: Looking forward to 'hacking field-day'

News Recommendations put forward by The National Criminal Intelligence Service's Trawler report last month, could lead to a "hacking field-day" according to the Metropolitan police Computer...

Burn your personalised CDs at Virgin...

News Wanna burn your own CD? That service will soon be available in American Virgin Megastores, according to a report in the US press today.

Net threat to TV thrown out - report

News Six months of intensive investigation has concluded that the Internet will not kill television.

Hackers: Will broadband open door to personal attack?

News The imminent UK broadband revolution could lead to a widespread security crisis and not just among corporates, according to British computer security experts.

Hackers: BO2K 'child's play' remark draws fire

News Computer security experts in the UK have attacked US firm, Internet Security Solutions (ISS) for describing Back Orifice 2000 (BO2K) as "child's play".

Electronic government could hamper privacy

News Government plans to go digital could threaten individual privacy according to the Data Protection Registrar Elizabeth France.

Higher bandwidth - through the air

News Networking giant Lucent Technologies announced Wednesday an alternative system for high-speed Net access. Based on light beams, the system will carry Internet traffic through the air.

DVD grows up - Panasonic high capacity DVD-RAM

News The first high capacity DVD-RAM drives are nearly complete according to electronics leader, Panasonic.

British hackers: Spotty teenagers they ain't

News UK hackers deny they are social deviants, hell-bent on causing malicious damage. They say the opposite is true and the British are the most ethical and of course, most talented hackers in the world.

AltaVista's next move in portal wars

News AltaVista's next big move in the portal wars will be to offer Internet access. But unlike the ISP deals offered by such competitors as Yahoo! Inc. or Excite Inc., AltaVista will be giving the...

AOL readying free Net access device

News National Semiconductor, which today announced a new chip for computing appliances, is aiming to be the supplier of choice for appliance makers jumping into the "free PC" fray.

Nat Semi announces PC-on-a-chip

News National Semiconductor Corp., taking a leap forward in the race to shrink the size and cost of the personal computer, announced Thursday that it has put most of the functions of a PC on a single chip.

UN 'bit tax' proposal draws fire

News United Nations proposal for a 'bit tax' to pay for Internet access in developing nations is drawing fire from U.S. lawmakers and high-tech executives.

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