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Archive - 17 Jan 2005

Grid computing to combat global warming

News Academics are investigating the potential of distributed computing to increase the efficiency of renewable forms of energy

Business Objects: Open source a distant threat

News Bernard Liautaud, the head man at Business Objects, sees little chance of open source vendors emerging as a threat to his company

Bugzilla 2.18 includes Windows support

News Builder: The popular open source bug tracking system gets improved Enterprise features and is easier to run on Windows

Student seeks legal help in Apple case

News Nicholas Ciarelli, the Harvard student behind ThinkSecret.com, may need the assistance of a generous lawyer now that he has to deal with a lawsuit from Apple

Red Hat reaches out with Fedora

Feature The Linux company wants to make better use of the open source community by promoting wider involvement in the development of its free Linux package

HP's OpenVMS throws Itanium lifeline

News HP looks set to breath new life into both Intel's beleaguered Itanium processor and one of its own operating systems with the announcement of OpenVMS 8.2

UK beefs up IT code of practice

News Suppliers of IT to the government will now need to live up to 'Ten Commitments' designed to help meet compliance targets

EU sees potential in e-government

News A survey has found that while users are satisfied with the e-government services they have tried, but that it can be hard to find the service you need

Winners: VMWare competition

News If your name's not on the list, or you forgot to enter, then don't worry as you could still win one of the other cool prizes on offer

United users should call security tune

Leader The Jericho Forum seems set to revitalise computer security. It's time for more users to take control

Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4

News Red Hat is taking on rivals such as Novell with the latest version of its Linux distribution for businesses

The business of intelligence

Q&A Bernard Liautaud, the chief executive of Business Objects, is gunning to make his firm the biggest name in Business Intelligence - despite increasing competition from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft

MSN search beta builds momentum

News Microsoft is slowly increasing the proportion of search results it returns from its own service compared to those it returns from Yahoo

Firm offers free 10GB online storage

News Streamload is offering a free online storage service as well as its paid-for options - upping the ante for rival services such as AOL

Slammer worm claims victim Down Under

News An Australian telco has admitted that its co-location customers were affected by a Slammer worm infection - nearly two years after the original virus was released

HP boosts RFID investment

News Hewlett-Packard is going from 'zero to a million chips' in its RFID usage this year

Microsoft opens access to Avalon

News A beta version of Microsoft's upcoming graphics engine is now being released to the public

Oracle announces thousands of PeopleSoft layoffs

News At least 5,000 jobs are set to go at PeopleSoft - but Oracle has yet to make public how many of its own staff will lose their positions

New Year, old flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer

Tech Guide Even with Windows XP SP2 installed, there are new attacks aimed at your PC.

ISP Panix over domain hijack

News A US-based ISP is struggling to recover after its domain ownership and email services were redirected abroad without its consent

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