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Archive - 20 Oct 2003

Domain registrar quits under court action

News Domain Registrar Services Ltd and its sister company UK Names won't be selling any more domain names after a successful court action by Nominet

Community broadband gets royal approval

News Could broadband's killer application be the ability to let a duke surf wirelessly from a pub?

Windows iTunes passes one million mark

News Over a million Windows users have downloaded iTunes since its introduction, and sent Apple's song sales skyrocketing

Broadband prices tumble worldwide

News Good news for customers, but Europe is still the most expensive market for entry-level high-speed Internet access

Silicon's successor lurks in the lab

Feature Touted as a miracle material, nanotubes have a long way to go before realising their commercial potential

Broadband alliance takes aim at BT

News Six British telecoms operators have banded together and are pushing for changes in wholesale broadband pricing, but BT denies there's a problem

CRM rivalry heats up

News Siebel's acquisition of rival UpShot has spawned campaigns by two other competitors to grab market share

Lexmark tops estimates for third quarter

News The printer manufacturer reported strong sales, surpassing analysts' estimates for its profits

UK government IT spend to top £12bn

News The government's investment in technology must take its social impact into consideration, warns Gartner

Text messages aim to cut bus delays

News Orange and Metroline have announced a deal that will see London bus drivers receiving text messages aimed at keeping the service running to a timetable

IBM brings speed to the low end

News IBM's lowest-end p615 Unix server will acquire a faster processor

Putting the pressure on outside suppliers

Feature How to go about cutting costs from external supplier relationships

HP's AlphaServer reaches end of line

News The final model in HP's long-serving series features 64 EV7 processors

Storage newcomers target niches

News Two companies are entering the crowded storage market - with network-attached storage devices tightly focused on specific sectors

Consumer electronics 'needs standards'

News Japanese firms should be promoting the standardisation of home technology rather than competing with each other, according to a Japanese government official

Face to face: Larry Weinbach of Unisys

Video In an exclusive face to face interview, Unisys chairman and CEO Larry Weinbach tells ZDNet.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about how he has moved the company away from selling mainframes and PCs and...

IBM targets smaller firms with flat database fee

News IBM has set a flat fee for DB2 Express, with an eye to the small and medium business market

Windows iTunes debut draws mixed reviews

News Apple's version of iTunes for Windows has proved extremely popular, the company says

OpenOffice.org 1.1

Review This feature-rich, flexible and, above all, free office suite is much more than a refuge for the anti-Microsoft tendency. It works, it's reliable and it's useful.

Scientists investigate water power for mobiles

News Electricity generated from small amounts of water could be the future of powering small devices such as mobile phones or calculators

Sony slashes jobs worldwide

News The consumer electronics giant says it will cut 20,000 jobs in a reform programme

Desktop and server security pull together

News Network Associates will launch an integrated software security system that covers desktop and server systems

Bug-hunting becomes mass effort

News US researchers have tweaked open-source techniques to gather better bug reports from software users

HP holds patent for ink-refill device

News Hewlett-Packard has patents for a cartridge-refilling device stashed away, though says there are no plans to manufacture it at present

Symantec releases new patch-management Ghost

News The company is launching a new version of a program that allows software patches to be applied en masse

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