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Archive - 18 Jun 2001

HP Officejet v40

Review Well worth considering if you're in a cramped office, or are working from home.

Meet Lara Croft: Culture raider

Comment My love of video games stopped with the arcade versions of Joust, Asteroids and PacMan, back in the days when you went to the mall and put quarters in the slot.

Vodafone offers MS Outlook for mobile users

News Microsoft admits that, as with the Internet, the company has been a little slow to grasp the potential of the mobile sector

Cheap and easy -- wireless

Comment Watch out for that umbrella! Be careful with those shoes! Don't leave that car out in the rain, and take care with that handbag... all of them, in a couple of years, could be wireless hubs.

Security pros dig in for new DoS attacks

News Despite new tools to fight off invaders, DoS attacks are only going to get worse - thanks to tools freely available on the Internet

Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications dissolves

News CUT says that it has achieved its goal of bringing unmetered access to the United Kingdom

Call centres are the new e-commerce selling tool

News Phrases such as 'sweatshops' and 'slave labour' could be a thing of the past now that e-commerce is placing high demands on call centre skills

Projector chip cleans up image

News The Warp IC can correct the distortions caused when images are projected onto complex and uneven surfaces

Special report: Who pays for recycling hardware?

News Part I: First, there was the cardboard box in the kitchen for old cans and bottles. Then, the plastic bin under everyone's desk for old print jobs and newspapers. Will the next trend in office...

Recycling special report: First steps to cleaner computing

News Part II: Computer manufacturers say they are working towards solutions for recycling more equipment, but that consumers must also bear some of the responsibility

Recycling special report: A way forward

News Part III: The European Union plans to introduce recycling legislation that could form a good model for the rest of the world

Recycling special report: Disposal is too hot to handle

News Part IV: Pending legislation in Europe and elsewhere will force computer manufacturers to take back their equipment when it reaches the end of its life

Recycling special report: Designing PCs for the environment

News Part V: Computer manufacturers must start designing more environmentally friendly equipment - but what will it take to make them?

IBM to launch wireless IM

News The 80 million users of IBM's Lotus Notes email software will be able to purchase a service allowing them to receive instant messages.

Pioneering Web publisher faces Nasdaq delisting

News Salon Media Group, which publishes some of the longest-running content on the Net, could be kicked off the exchange

Microsoft is not the enemy

Comment In a recent article by Bruce Perens, he noted that Microsoft's attacks on open source in general and the GPL and Linux in particular actually validate Linux.

Online ads get in your face

News Let's have a heated debate - are the new breed of intrusive Net ads a success story or a surfer's worst nightmare?

Palm losing the revenue game to Compaq

News The focus of Compaq and Microsoft on the enterprise is beginning to pay off, while Palm is in danger of being left behind

AOL, Microsoft dissolve Windows XP talks

News Lead negotiators for the two companies could not resolve the issues that had stalled discussions on bundling AOL's online service software with Windows XP

Open-source music format ready to play

News After a year in the works, the Ogg Vorbis open-source music format launches this weekend. It sounds better than rival MP3, say the developers - and there's no royalties

Rambus revs up chip speed

News The memory chip maker says it will increase the clock speed of its RDRAM chips from 800MHz to 1.2GHz by 2005. It hopes to crack the mainstream PC market

HP could pack Crusoe into ultradense server

News Hewlett-Packard takes aim at a booming market niche with its first 'ultradense' server, code-named 'Powerbar'. It could pack Transmeta's Crusoe chip - a black eye for Intel

Wearable technology could be next consumer fad

News Research from MIT has taken wearable computing to a new level, which could for the first time pose a commercial alternative to other mobile devices

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