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Blog Friday 17/9/2004One of the many paradoxes of corporate life is that a company can have a public image completely at odds to the culture of the people who work there. SCO is a good example -- if you...
Microsoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown
News A three-hour system shutdown that affected South California's airports was reportedly caused by a technician who failed to reboot an MS-based system
Cable & Wireless launches broadband assault
News C&W plans to offer much faster broadband services to around 30 percent of the population, in a direct challenge to BT
Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
News The butler is travelling on a 'secret mission' as part of a site re-branding exercise
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment A bestiary of a week sees Rupert befuddled by worms, mice, bugs and noses. Can You believe it?
Cybercrime summit urges international cooperation
News Pressure is growing on more nations to implement the Council of Europe's anti-cybercrime treaty
What ails Oracle?
Feature The database giant has seen a slowdown in its application business, even as its database sales are booming - and analysts say the PeopleSoft saga may be at least partly to blame
Big trouble in bigger China
Leader Is it hypocritical for Western companies to deal with China, or are Intel and Symantec's woes this week just a storm in a tea-cup?
Nortel lowers expectations
News Brief: Nortel had previously indicated that its revenue would grow faster than overall communications equipment market, but has now said that will not be the case
Microsoft and Cisco clash on security
Feature The dawning era of 'end to end' security architectures is squeezing customers between the proprietary efforts of two dominant vendors
Data centre firms settle cookie spat
News Brief: F5 has settled another case centring on its cookie persistence technology, used in load balancing e-commerce traffic between servers
New Acrobat expected this year
News Adobe is on track to release its next generation of its PDF tools ahead of schedule, according to experts
Symantec backpedals over mislabelled Trojan
News Symantec has withdrawn its decision to prevent Web surfers in China from accessing an anti-censorship program
'Megadeals' may be on the way out
News The cancellation of JPMorgan Chase's £3bn contract with IBM is just one of the huge deals that have disappeared recently
AOL dumps Microsoft's Sender ID
News America Online is taking on the Sender Framework Policy in favour of Microsoft's Sender ID approach
T-Mobile 3G Communication Centre
Review T-Mobile's 3G datacard includes access to Wi-Fi hot-spots as part of the bundle, but its ease of installation and tariff structure could be improved.
Kodak teams with IBM on next-generation image sensors
News An upcoming line of sensors will combine IBM's CMOS processes with proprietary technology from Kodak
Symantec acquires @stake
News The purchase of@stake, founded by a 'grey hat' hacker group, is designed to improve Symantec's contacts and counter a similar move by McAfee
MandrakeSoft builds war chest for acquisitions
News A sell-off of shares could raise up to £4m, allowing the Linux vendor to expand and shift to a regulated exchange
BEA regroups around advanced research projects
News New BEA appointee Wai Wong is to incorporate Quicksilver and Alchemy into existing product groups, picking up where departed technology executives left off
Oracle to debut content management tools
News The database maker is likely to enter the content-management market in December in an attempt to extend its database dominance and counter moves by competitors
