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Blog Friday 17/06/2005 A couple of weeks ago I was in a small yet luxuriously decorated room beneath a London hotel, taking part in a "Meet ZDNet UK" evening laid on for various PRs by tech marcom...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Will Longhorn fall short? Will Nokia usher in a new age of repression? What is BT playing at? And what is the connection between ketchup and spam?
Government concedes opt out of NHS database
News Privacy advocates are calling on patients to boycott centralised health records
Data protection watchdog targets businesses
News Information Commission goes to war on misuse of personal data...
Spies target techies with honey traps, warns MI5
News Be on your guard when travelling - your position may be compromised
Crime, but no punishment for Microsoft
Leader Who's in charge of a system where the guilty set their own sentence?
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
News Linus Torvalds' brainchild is full of "cheap little hacks", says the founder of OpenBSD
The pros and cons of high-availability systems
Feature High-availability systems can play a vital role in resuming business activities in the event of system failures
Hopes for legal music podcasts rise
Feature Digital DJs and record labels are discussing ways to simplify music podcasting and are in talks that could help accelerate the format's ascent
Siebel updates hosted CRM again
News Siebel has introduced the latest update to its online hosted software
What are your IT Priorities?
Special Report IT Priorities Research Report: The latest survey of ZDNet UK readers shows networking, security and mobility as increasingly important now and in the future
Oracle updates J.D. Edwards compliance tools
News On Wednesday Oracle launched a new set of upgrades for J.D. Edwards compliance software
NetApp to buy security company
News Decru is the second security-related acquisition by NetApp in the past three months. Its encryption technology was the key to NetApp's interest
RIM creates patent 'workaround'
News Research In Motion has come up with an alternative to skirt patents at the centre of its legal battle with NTP
Spyware and adware hide in BitTorrent downloads
News BitTorrent users' downloads may include adware and spyware
Dell founder thinks different about Apple
News Michael Dell would be a 'switcher' to the Mac OS, hypothetically
Summer test of Longhorn Server planned
News Microsoft says it is on course to deliver a beta version of the operating system this summer
Ad-aware SE Personal Edition 1.06
Review Ad-aware is the best free option for keeping spyware and adware under control on your PC.
