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Archive - 21 Aug 2001

Cybersquatting cases branded as 'biased'

News Pick your panel carefully: cybersquatting cases for .com, .org and .net domain names can be won and lost on the make-up of the adjudicating panel

Games and digital TV boosting Internet take-up

News More than one million Britons joined the UK Internet population through their games console in the second quarter, and half a million through their set-top box

CD-maker to sell Macrovision copy protection

News SafeAudio, which prevents perfect copies being made onto a hard drive, to be used by one of the world's largest CD manufacturers

Freeserve keeps check on AOL's VAT saving

News UK's biggest ISP is determined to keep up the pressure over AOL's 'unfair' saving of £30m per year

UK bankers see no sign of tech recovery

News Slump means that a UK investment bank has seen the value of its technology investments plummet

Microsoft under pressure for latest Hotmail hole

News The company says it is still investigating a security flaw in the email service that allows hackers to read other people's emails

Online music site climbs the charts

News Italian music site Vitaminic is attracting the interests of analysts to its system of 'farming out' music online

Handspring slashes UK prices

News Prices of the Visor and its peripherals are cut by a quarter as rumours abound of a new mid-range model

IT workers aren't the Net police

News COMMENTARY: Enlisting software developers and IT workers as the troops in the battles against hackers and child pornographers makes no sense

Finding gold in dot-bombs' idle software

News Software 'recycling' is the latest money-spinner for those picking over the bones of defunct technology companies

McAfee forms zombie-killer alliance

News Security companies are banding together for the first time to work against viruses, worms, hackers and zombies

Tory rage over Ofcom stitch-up

News Former culture secretary Chris Smith is tipped to be the first chairman of the super-regulator Ofcom - an idea that infuriates the Opposition

Netstore plays down reports of a takeover

News The first ASP to win gold certification for Exchange 2000 from Microsoft says rumours of a sale are premature

AMD revs up Athlon 4 and Duron chips

News New Durons get the Morgan core with PowerNow power management - AMD's answer to Intel's Speedstep

AOL Time Warner likely to cut 1,000 jobs this week

News Media giant prepares for second round of job cuts but it's not due to a lack of cash - the company is hoping to post $11bn in earnings at the end of its financial year

Sun's Java misses the XP bus

News Sun Microsystems may have missed its opportunity to get the newest version of Java on PCs loaded with Microsoft's new operating system

Excite@Home faces bankruptcy

News Excite@Home shares take a nosedive after the troubled broadband provider discloses that it may not have enough cash to keep operating through the end of the year. Nasdaq delisting looms

Five years ago: Hare virus up and running on Thursday

News Companies bracing themselves for Thursday's triggering of the Hare virus at least have a range of detection tools on tap