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Archive - 19 Feb 2001

News Roundup: Music industry cracks down on Napster

News The labels are getting tougher in their attempts to stop the illegal copying of music

Hackers become terrorists under new law

News Computer hacking comes under government scrutiny with new terrorism act

Jane Wakefield: Broadband Britain, please stand up

News BT continues to be the 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' of broadband while the government introduces its 'Heineken' approach to the issue

BT is holding back Broadband Britain

News It is imperative that the UK government makes BT act, says report

Music industry to snoop on Napster fans

News The IFPI is planning to seriously crack down on repeat Napster users

Venture capitalists turn off the tap on funding

News Enthusiastic entrepreneurs earn not much but VC scorn

New chips aimed at faster mobile phones

News When it comes to mobile phones, less is definitely more

Anna infestation

Comment The only reason I am not infected by the Anna virus is that I don't use Microsoft Outlook as my mail client. Like everybody else, I've received dozens of copies; but I didn't run them.

Week ahead, the week that was

Comment What could be more fun than spending quality time with Larry Ellison and Bill Clinton? Give me a minute and I could come up with about a hundred good alternatives, but going into a long weekend,...

Company founders buy back labours of love

News Founders who were separated from their firms scramble to rescue their ideas from the dot-com dustbin

Startup lures $34m and Microsoft

News Network operators will be able to sell wireless services directly to businesses

GSM World Forum: Wireless future discussed

News With GPRS, 3G and Bluetooth all getting tongues wagging, will the future of wireless be sunny or glum?

Getting wireless working

Comment I've seen the future, and it is slow. Actually, an awful lot of the future looks to be ISDN. And I found myself wondering: How long will it be before cellphones have 802.11b network interfaces?

Pentium 4 picks up steam with chipset deals

News Intel reaches out to Taiwan and gets a hand with Pentium 4

Rupert Goodwins' diary

Blog Thursday 15/02/2001 Once more, the sky around Whitehall is thick with homecoming pigeons looking forward to a good roost. This time, the Great IT System Wooden Spoon goes to Siemens, whose system...

Splash of Flash heads for handhelds

News Macromedia is looking beyond the desktop PC, and wants to get its Flash Player onto a range of gadgets

Busy hackers add NY Times to their victim list

News Splurge takes over New York Times' stock quote page

Email sorting gets simplified

News With the average user spending three hours a day sorting out email, a few time-saving tricks could be very valuable

Brace yourself for IM spam

News Your private online chats could soon be interrupted by a message telling you about an 'amazing money-making opportunity'

A Year Ago: NatWest's WAP services will appeal to all

News First published: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:02:03 GMT

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