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Blog Friday 19/11/2004 Sometimes it only takes the smallest thing to brighten up one's day. Take this apparently innocuous quote from the point man of the Sophos antivirus hit squad, Graham Cluley:...
Compliance and cash to dominate 2005
News Senior management will start to demand more concrete demonstrations of cash benefits from their IT departments in 2005, according to Butler Group
Hotmail releases .co.uk addresses
News Addresses @hotmail.co.uk are being made available for the first time, and the most popular first names will be auctioned off via eBay for charity
BT to offer cheaper Wi-Fi to its mobile users
News A converged Wi-Fi device is on the cards as BT aims to make it big in the mobile space again
Google sees slower growth ahead
News Decline in growth is 'inevitable' as revenues increase, the search giant has warned
Start-up aims at beating MS and Macromedia to next-gen Web Apps
Feature David Temkin, CTO for Lazlo systems, talks about his plans for taking on the might of Macromedia and Microsoft with his company's open-source gamble
Dell enables Wi-Fi printing
News Brief: Dell's printer adapter allows users to print, scan and fax over a wireless network
Seductive virus has Sobering consequence
News The Sober.I virus, featuring an attachment claiming to be naked photos of a blonde model, is beginning to spread rapidly around the Internet
Mystery 'researchers' are revealing IE flaws
News Security organisation Secunia says it can't explain why researchers are revealing vulnerabilities outside the normal reporting channels
Ballmer and the revenge of the Jade penguin
Leader Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has been warning Asian governments that Linux may infringe software patents. James Cagney, move over. There's a new hard man in town...
Nomad to make complaining easier
News The citizens of Nottingham have now got an e-mapping service that the council hopes will improve its services and make reporting problems easier
And on the eighth day, the Lord created spam
News The growth area in unsolicited email is now spam containing religious mesages. And the bad news is that unlike commercial spam, it's not illegal
Florida research raises e-voting questions
News Voters using electronic polling tended to favour President Bush, research into the 2004 elections has found
Oracle gets with the patch programme
News Security bulletins and patches will be released on fixed dates in 2005 to allow customers to manage their updates, Oracle says
IronPort C60
Review This is an impressive big-company email security solution with top-name antivirus and anti-spam tools. But this market is very crowded, and alternatives do more for less.
IBM server speeds past rivals
News Big Blue's eServer p5-595 has beaten the records for transactions per minute performed by either a cluster or single system
Microsoft 'destroyed evidence' in patent case
News Burst.com, which is suing Microsoft for patent infringement, has alleged in a pretrial motion that Redmond's policy of email deletion contravenes a court order
