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Archive - 21 Mar 2001

Fiorina warns tech gloom is spreading

News Slowdown disease is contagious and there is no way Europe will be able to avoid catching it, warns HP chief

Dell and Samsung sign $16bn pact

News Technology and R&D joint areas of interest for firms in ongoing relationship

Blackberry turns wireless calendar page

News Wireless calendar updating to become a USP for RIM

Minister challenges government on child protection

News DfEE takes stronger line on protecting children from Internet paedophiles than Home Office

Local loop unbundling 'farcical' say MPs

News Trade and Industry select committee blames both BT and Oftel for the 'sorry tale' of broadband rollout

Handspring gaining toehold in Palm market

News Handheld maker Handspring makes inroads on Palm's market share

End the holy war now!

Comment I've often heard Napster users talk about the importance of a concept we all should have learned in kindergarten: the concept of sharing.

Mir, uncertainty and doubt to be streamed on Web

News Millions of people are expected to log on to watch online coverage of the Mir spacestation as it plunges back to Earth on Friday

Sun fights back with mid-range servers

News Beset by delays, Sun's servers finally launch with the long-awaited Ultrasparc III, but there's still no sign of the high-end StarCat

News Roundup: BT must face up to its debt problem

News Shareholders demand an explanation of BT's debt-reduction strategy

PoizonBOx hackers leave e-envoy red-faced

News Computer crackers leave their mark on numerous government Web sites, including that of e-envoy Andrew Pinder

Space: The final vacation

News Space Island Group plans to lure tourists and commercial enterprises into space at an affordable price. Zero gravity, here we come

Queen of Teen takes over Yahoo!

News Click me baby one more time! Despite an ad industry in the doldrums, Pepsi and Britney have bought up all of Yahoo!'s advertising space this weekend

Power without the wire

Comment Intel is a reformed character. It has mended its ways. It has seen the light, and it is now cool. Well, cooler. Trouble is, is it in time?

Oracle slashes 2 percent of workforce

News Spokeswoman says that workforce reduction should be achievable through attrition

Game over for Freeloader.com

News Failure to attract enough adverts means closure for the free online game site

MS targets smart phones, pagers

News The software giant is engaging in a wireless assault - signing partnerships over its Stinger smart phone and teaming with Motorola to bring MSN to two-way pagers

Net-porn filtering hit with lawsuits

News A battle is brewing in the US over what is more important: giving the public Internet access, or protecting kids

Mac OS X - it hits, it misses

News The next-generation Mac operating system, coming Saturday, will not support CD-rewritable, DVD or DVD-recording drives - the linchpins of recent marketing campaigns - but it will have some extras, too

Tech's heavyweights go wireless

News This year's CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas is a haven for not only young start-ups, but also the highest concentration yet of the biggest names in the computing industry

Intel unveils last PIII-based Xeon

News The processor giant releases a 900-MHz Xeon processor for servers, the final member of the chip family to be based on the Pentium III design

IR35 could cost companies billions in benefits

News Judge argues that an IT contractor who has to pay the same rate of tax as an employee deserves to get the same benefits

EC joins growing debate on future of 3G

News Brussels hopes to dispel criticisms surrounding the introduction of next generation mobile services

A Year Ago: Brown unveils the e-budget

News First published: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:43:40 GMT

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