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Blog Wednesday 14/6/2006 Peter Kirwan at the Fullrunner, the marketing and communications professional's guide to the UK tech marcomms scene, is quite taken with freelance Dennis Howlett's...
JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together
News Builder: The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Hot news of Shakespeare on the Net, sees Rupert make his worst jokes yet. Temptation strong sees him accurs'd. He will go on, from Bard to verse
Government: we've learned from our IT mistakes
News After the National Audit Office lets the NHS off the hook over its Connecting For Health programme, the minister responsible for the project says past mistakes with large-scale IT projects have...
Segway gains a seat
Photo After Hours: Our favourite high-tech scooter now looks almost exactly like an electric wheelchair
Ballmer should follow Gates out of Microsoft
Leader Now we know we're losing Microsoft's organ grinder, it's time for the monkey to step aside too
Microsoft moves beyond the Gates era
Feature After 30 years leading the company he founded, Bill Gates is preparing to withdraw and concentrate on his charitable foundation
US government considers action on patent trolls
News Those who don't make products shouldn't get compensated just because they own a patent, argue US politicians
Vista may require "unproven" drive technology
Analysis Reports have emerged that only laptops equipped with hybrid flash memory drives will be compatible with Microsoft's upcoming mobile version of the Windows Vista operating system
HP: Everything can be bladed
Q&A HP's head of blade strategy claims that the efficient and easy to deploy format has a big future beyond the server
Sendmail firming up open source plans
News The email software company will open source some of its proprietary products, if legal wrinkles and patent fears can be ironed out
NHS IT project is doing OK, says Audit Office
News A long-awaited report says the NHS National Programme for IT is doing well so far, but needs better communications
Oracle bids for your unstructured data
News Content management specialists are being challenged by the database giant
HTC goes it alone with Windows smartphones
News High Tech Computer, the company behind devices such as the SPV and the XDA, is stepping into the spotlight with its own branded phones
AOL launches corporate IM beta
News With instant messaging proving very popular in the business world, AOL is working on AIM Pro
Tech industry unfazed by Gates's withdrawal
News The news that Microsoft's chairman plans to step down from a day-to-day role has caused barely a ripple in the tech world
Five things you'll love (and hate) about Windows Vista
Tech Guide We've lived with beta 2 of Vista for a while. Here are our top five pros and cons of the new OS.
Is Ray Ozzie the new Bill Gates?
Feature As Bill Gates withdraws from his work on Microsoft, chief software architect Ray Ozzie will play an even more crucial role in the company's future
Gates looks to life beyond Microsoft
Q&A Q&A: Having announced that will wind down his commitment to Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with Steve Ballmer to discuss future plans and reminisce on the past
Gates to step down from Microsoft
News Bill Gates will withdraw from his day-to-day work as Microsoft chairman in 2008, to spend more time on his charitable foundation
