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Archive - 16 May 2006

No merit in C&W's mega bonuses

Leader Rather than dreaming of multi-million pound payouts, senior executives at Cable & Wireless should be worrying if their firm has a future

Apple releases 13-inch MacBook

News The new MacBook is just one inch thick, 20 percent thinner than the iBook it is replacing, as Apple continues its move to Intel chips

Consumer tech tipped to reshape enterprise IT

News Business models will change as consumers make a greater impact on the technology market, says Gartner

ICANN approves .tel domain

News The new domain will give companies and individuals the 21st century equivalent of the phone number, promises Telnic

Firefox continues to gain ground

News The Mozilla browser is attracting more users every day, but some experts feel it may have reached its peak

ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'

News The ISO's approval of OpenDocument will thwart Microsoft's chances of getting its XML document format certified by the standards group, analysts claim

Corporate keylogger infections up 50 percent

News Organisations may have the best antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall software, but it hasn't stopped a growing epidemic of spyware

Skype: We are not the enemy

News Skype is looking for a positive relationship with mobile network operators — even as it plans to ultimately make them redundant

Java inches closer to open source

Feature Builder: Sun is moving more of its software into the open source realm, but is stopping short of handing over the keys to Java itself

Firefox 2 Alpha 2

Preview Although the changes in Firefox 2 Alpha 2 are bolder and better than those in Alpha 1, they're still best left to developers and the technically adventurous.

Inside Firefox 2 Alpha 2

Photo A screenshot gallery of the latest changes in the Alpha 2 release of Firefox 2 -- which is still best left to developers and the technically adventurous.

Supreme Court rules in favour of eBay

News The decision should address a major complaint from the technology industry, which has argued that it's unreasonable for an entire product to face shutdown when one component infringes on a patent

ScanSafe tackles unsafe search

News A new service should identify potentially malicious links in the results of popular search engines

Samsung hybrid hard drive extends laptop battery life

News Because the processor can retrieve data from flash, the drive can stay asleep most of the time, significantly cutting power consumption

Symantec chief executive advocates fair play — and Macs

News Buying a Macintosh is at least a temporary salve to security problems, according to John Thompson

Symbian celebrates handset century

News The market-leading mobile OS company has shipped its hundredth model, but admits to increasing competition from Microsoft and Linux

Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap

News A jump to 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch helps bolster the argument that tape will continue to remain an economical means of archival storage for years to come

AMD unveils line of energy-efficient chips

News The chips are actually standard AMD processors factory-tested to ensure low power consumption

Public gets a look at new Windows Media Player

News The new software is Microsoft's latest attempt to unseat Apple, whose sales of both music and digital music players have consistently outpaced those of competitors

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