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Archive - 16 Nov 2005

Schoolgirl wins Google Doodle competition

News Google has marked the launch of its London GooglePlex by getting a London child to design a new logo for its home page

W3C challenges developers on mobile Web

News The majority of Web users will be using mobile devices, but first improvements in development are necessary

Can wikis change the Web?

Feature Taking back the Web: Collaboration has always been at the heart of Web's success, and a technology that harnesses it is on the way up

Ofcom backs transparency in roaming debate

News Roaming Rip-Offs: Ofcom says it 'shares some of the concerns' over the cost of mobile roaming

Geldof: Emails are a waste of time

News Social campaigner and pop star warns that electronic mail can damage productivity and cause misunderstandings

Microsoft releases November security bulletin

Feature In this case less could equal more as vulnerabilities reach critical status

Google Base beta goes live

News Google Base has generated plenty of discussion and rumour online, and now Web users can play with the classifieds service themselves

Proactive project management

Feature Strategic planning will create a higher chance of project success

Bulldog launches pay-as-you-go 8Mbps broadband

News Customers can get ultra-high-speed broadband for 3p per minute, providing the service is working...

UK financial organisations offer Firefox support

News 'We recognise that more and more people are using Firefox, so it's something we want to support,' says one high-street bank

OSDL says patent threat to Linux is receding

News The Patent Commons has launched, but one activist has hit out at the idea that pledging a few hundred patents will prevent IP warfare

Microsoft: No more five year waits for SQL Server

News The five-year wait for the latest version of SQL Server has prompted a new two-year release cycle with some hard rules: if a feature is not ready, it doesn't go in. Other teams at Microsoft are...

Open source PCs take a passage to India

News PCs pre-installed with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and other open source applications will be available in India soon

Internet rights are hard to divine

Leader After unprecedented press attention and high-powered geopolitical bickering, the fight to control the Internet is over and the US has won. But what exactly is the prize?

ClearCube blades offer a bank in a box

News ClearCube has been recruited by IBM to help banks to run a branch office on a single blade server

The Search

Review The Search, by Wired co-founder and Industry Standard publisher John Batelle, covers the history and future of the ubiquitous search box, from Altavista through Google's IPO and on to the prospects...

Microsoft Virtual Server R2 ships with Linux support

News ITForum05: Microsoft added formal support for Linux to its Virtual Server product, but its hypervisor is still at least two years away

Trend-spotters blog to stay at the top

Feature Taking back the Web: Not since the dot-com' meltdown has the Internet enjoyed such a strong influence, but this time its culture over commerce

Opera goes mobile with AJAX

News Opera announces a beta version of a software development kit that allows the creation of interactive Web applications on smartphones

Web giants launch trusted downloads

News Several US Internet firms will promise users that their downloads are free of spyware and viruses

Microsoft makes the leap to 64-bit

News Some forthcoming Microsoft software will only run on 64-bit processors, which should mean better application performance and larger mailboxes for Outlook users

UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing

News University of Southampton is leading efforts to get UK industry to use supercomputers

ClearCube PC Blade solutions

Review For maximum security and performance ClearCube's C/Port technology matches what you’ll get from a similar desktop PC. For maximum flexibility, however, the thin-client I/Port solution is a better...

Vodafone looks to wireless broadband

News Mobile WiMax has caught Vodafone's attention, but right now the company is just trying to make some money out of 3G

A sobering thought for the festive season

News As winter draws in cold and flu aren't the only viruses you have to worry about; three new Sober variants are spreading through spam

Sony offers to replace rootkit CDs

News The besieged media giant has finally issued an apology for distributing CDs containing copy-restriction technology that has already been exploited by virus writers

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