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Archive - 21 Dec 2005

Win a D-Link MediaLounge wireless media player

News Competition: Today we're giving away a D-Link MediaLounge wireless media player and a wireless router to go with it

Fixed-mobile convergence 'around the corner'

News Users and operators will soon be able to think about applications and services, not access technologies, says Frost and Sullivan

UK broadband boom continues

News Dialup users' appetite for bandwidth has not yet been sated, according to ONS figures

Yahoo security weakness revealed

News A design flaw involving Yahoo Personals could allow an attacker to access user accounts

Debian upgrade hones security

News The update contains fixes for 172 pieces of software, including high-profile entries like SpamAssassin, Firefox and Apache

IBM to acquire Micromuse for $865m

News The UK firm's network management offerings are to be folded into IBM's Tivoli software portfolio

Google apps coming to a flash drive near you

News Tools like Desktop Search will be available on Lexar flash drives as Google chases its dream of ubiquity

Seagate to buy Maxtor

News The hard drive giant claims the deal will mean better, cheaper products

Japan may create its own search engine

News A consortium of tech companies and universities will consider whether Japan should take on today's search powerhouses

Symantec security products hit by high-risk flaw

News The bug affects most of Symantec's products, including enterprise and home user software, across both the Windows and Macintosh platforms

Mobile banking on the rise

News Internet, telephone and SMS banking are exposing customers to fraud, according to experts

Decide what to include at compile time using conditional compiler constants

Help/HowTo Conditional compilation constants allow you to control what is included in an application's compiled code. Discover how you can utilise this feature by declaring conditional compiler constants in...

Lock floppy drives on Windows 2000 Pro machines with Floplock.exe

Help/HowTo One Windows 2000 Resource Kit utility that can help you better secure your systems is Floplock.exe. Read this tip to find out how Floplock.exe makes your computers more secure

MailFrontier Gateway Appliance M500

Review The main selling point of the MailFrontier Gateway Appliance is its delightfully straightforward management interface. The hardware and software are both well specified, and can provide a high...

BitTorrent - flooding the filesharing space

Analysis The protocol makes it fast and easy to share large files, including copyrighted content - and it appears virtually unstoppable

Building an offshore presence

Feature Any exercise involving third-parties is likely to add layers of complexity to existing processes, and offshoring is no exception

Oracle looks to 'Fortify' code

News The company will use Fortify tools to weed out security bugs, but critics say it isn't enough to counter 'lazy and insecure' programming

PC sales growth to slow in 2006

News Growth may be stalling somewhat, but the recovery hasn't ended yet, according to IDC

Santa Claus worm tricks IM users

News The IM.GiftCom.All worm attempts to dupe IM users into thinking an acquaintance has sent them a link to a harmless Santa Claus file, but really installs a rootkit

IBM to sit out Office format standards process

News The Ecma committee standardising Microsoft Office document formats is likely to be little more than a rubber stamp, charges IBM

Lenovo chief executive steps down

News Stephen Ward's resignation could bring some clouds over a merger that, so far, has gone generally better than expected

Google sinks $1bn into AOL

News The deal gives AOL advertising rights on Google's network, and will make Google the only shareholder in AOL other than Time Warner

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