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Archive - 21 Jul 2003

Identity theft remains a growing problem

News ID theft almost doubled in the US over the past year. The UK government estimates this crime has cost more than £1bn over the same period here

The state of Web services

Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Some of the key technologies underpinning Web services have not lived up to their original promise. We take a look at just how far they have come, and how far they...

Amazon takes a razor to its homepage

Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Amazon.com's latest strategy could see it evolve from an amorphous shopping portal to a collection of lucrative Web services managed by a growing army of external...

Everything you need to know about Web services

Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Vendors have purposefully muddied the water when it comes to defining Web services but it is actually easily explained

Tesco.com cuts development costs with Web services

Feature IT Priorities Special Report: Tesco.com claims the write-once, use-on-multiple-platforms nature of Web services has allowed it to cut development costs and avoid redundant code

Evesham targets students with PC price cuts

News Heading off to university this autumn? An offer from Evesham Technology could help you cope with next term's bar bill

Harvard to steward popular blog tool

News The specification for a widely used Web log tool has transferred to Harvard Law School

Grids halt hardware overspending - IBM

News Adopting a grid computing model would allow businesses to stop spending too much on processing power, says IBM, which is launching grid additions to its server software

Analyst urges caution on Madison

News IT managers need to evaluate carefully the costs of moving to Intel's new, powerful 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, according to the Meta Group

Oftel ruling will not mean cheaper Internet

News Oftel has ruled that BT has been overcharging for its wholesale unmetered Internet-access product, but ISPs may find better things to do with their savings than passing them on to customers

Intel's top brass celebrate 35th anniversary

Video Intel's top executives and founders gather with hundreds of employees at the company's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters to celebrate 35 years in the chipmaking business.

Amazon casts its net wider

News The e-commerce giant wants customers to pay other online retailers via their Amazon accounts

A remote control for the digital home

Video ZDNet's Patrick Houston looks at the Linux-based iPronto digital display, which acts as a remote control and an Internet browser.

Eliminate EDI by migrating to the Web

Feature Shifting the exchange of purchase orders to the Internet can cut out EDI's layers of complexity

Europe to push open source for e-government

News A European Commission initiative is promoting open standards and open-source software for government services, which could mean trouble for proprietary software vendors

ISP caching tool muddies copyright waters

News A Swedish company has launched software that lets Internet service providers store popular files from song-swapping sites

Dell vetoes eight-processor server

News Dell has severed a partnership with Intel built around creating an eight-processor server

'Another four years of software gloom' ahead

News There are still too many companies selling too much software to too few people; a situation that will continue till 2007, according to Ovum

Palm OS looks to voice

News Palm's operating-system subsidiary sees converged devices as the answer to falling handheld sales

Dell drops 'computer'

News Dell has changed its name to reflect better its growing range of products

Infineon awards Accenture $48m outsourcing deal

News The German semiconductor company will pay Accenture to run its SAP software support for seven years, in a boost to the outsourcing market

Siebel tries again to rent out CRM

News Siebel has revived a plan to rent a scaled-down customer relationship management package over the Internet, this time teaming up with IBM

Linux lawsuit raises questions for customers

Comment Charles Cooper: The SCO-IBM lawsuit has opened up the debate on open-source software, and customers need to consider their own liabilities.

Business Objects buys rival

News The $820m acquisition joins a wave of consolidation reshaping the business-software market

HP LaserJet 2300dtn

Review HP's LaserJet 2300dtn fits an impressive number of high-end features into a printer that's priced for budget-minded small offices.

Cisco flaw exploit posted online

News Code taking advantage of a security hole in Cisco routers is freely available on the Internet

Microsoft set to refund $1bn

News Microsoft is edging towards a settlement under which it will pay back $1.1bn to California buyers of Windows 95 and 98