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Blog Thursday 19/1/2006 One of the biggest problems in IT is measuring stuff. Many an expensive system has been sold on the basis that it will improve productivity or cut down delays, without any...
BT's 8Mbps broadband out now?
News BT's much-anticipated 8Mbps ADSL service has begun to roll out two months ahead of schedule, according to Freedom2surf, but BT has other ideas
First WiMax products certified
News Four vendors now have certified kit for sale, but has WiMax missed its chance?
PC loan schemes take off
News PCs are being loaned to staff by 1,250 organisations - three times as many as this time last year
City of London to get blanket Wi-Fi
News Workers in the City should soon be able to get wireless Internet access even when outside the office
AOL takes fight to BT with £50m
News The ISP has become the latest firm to turn up to the local-loop unbundling party
Defending the world's freedoms
Q&A The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2
Dixons moves on from Logica fiasco
News HCL Technologies has picked up a £150m outsourcing contract with the high street electronics store
Google DRM could be Shire madness
Leader The London Review of Books thinks Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the Wallace and Gromit of IT. We see them in a more dramatic role....
EMI considers opening its DRM to inspection
News The music industry giant is reviewing a request by the EFF to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management software
Virtualisation in the Linux kernel
Feature OpenVZ wants to see its virtualisation technology in the heart of the open source operating system
FBI: Computer crime costs US firms $67bn
News The cost of dealing with hacking, viruses and spyware is doing serious damage to the corporate wallet, according to an FBI survey
400Mbps Wi-Fi standard back on track
News The wireless industry has given draft approval for 802.11n, which promises much faster wireless connectivity
US spammer pleads guilty
News Brief: The first person prosecuted under America's Can-Spam legislation faces jail after filing a guilty plea
Google stands up to government porn probe
News Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have all handed the US government a selection of search requests and indexed Web sites, but Google is standing firm
Intel abandons x86 support on Itanium
News Software-based Pentium emulation is now your only option for running standard software on Intel's beleaguered processor
