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Archive - 21 Nov 2005

Liberty Alliance endorses new ID products

News Following testing, the Alliance has confirmed that all the latest batch of products conform to interoperability standards for Liberty Federation

WEEE directive brings legal headaches

News PricewaterhouseCoopers is set to warn UK businesses that new laws covering IT recycling will bring a clutch of legal problems

Linux installation made easy

Feature Learning the ropes with Linux is not as daunting as many might think

Fraudsters jailed after $240m scam

News Two of Nigeria's worst fraudsters have been jailed for bringing 'miseries to many innocent people'

Ten tips for making the most of Google Mail

Help/HowTo There are layers of tools built into Google's Web-based email and even the hidden ones are useful

Mandriva Linux 2006

Review Mandriva occupies the middle ground between consumer-focused and business-orientated Linux distributions. It's generally well put together, but lacks some details.

Vienna's open source desktop migration takes off

News Thousands of city employees have started using OpenOffice.org and hundreds are running Linux, less than two months after the 'soft' migration started

Failing Britain's business broadband users

Leader Businesses are not getting full value from the high-speed networks at their disposal. It is high time someone helped them

Record rise in overseas IT workers

News Increase in numbers of foreign IT staff obtaining work visas highlights skills gap, report says

IT upgrades without excess

Feature An effective upgrade plan will make use of the best new technologies without wasting valuable resources

Small businesses 'risk missing opportunities of broadband'

News The CBI says that broadband operators have let down the UK's SMEs by focusing on football and porn rather than business services

Government sees silver lining in botnet cloud

News Let's celebrate, says the DTI, as the UK holds on to the top spot for botnet infections

Turbulence in Tunisia

Q&A Q&A: Regime restrictions may be behind the violence at the WSIS in Tunis, Tunisia

Bridging charges for conference calls come under attack

News Companies are being charged excessive prices for traditional teleconferencing services, which is inhibiting the growth of the sector, say new players

Sony outlines rootkit CD recall plan

News Sony attempts to rebuild relations with its customers by offering a free exchange service for all copy-restricted CDs purchased

Skype moves to the shop floor

News Skype is expected to announce a partnership with Radioshack to sell its VoIP service in US stores

Rural broadband conference sunk by funding squeeze

News Are Britain's broadband battles over? The Access to Broadband Campaign says no, but government and industry appear to disagree

Saving Linux from the lawyers

News Q&A: The Open Source Development Labs has launched an initiative to try and head off future patent claims against the community developed operating system

Don't pardon the interruption

Tech Guide What with all the messages, alerts and pop-ups on an average computer, it's remarkable anybody gets any work done at all.

UK e-government to shift North

News With so many government IT workers in the North West of England, it makes sense to move the Uk's e-Government unit up from London

IBM moots free DB2

News The hardware and services giant could offer a free, stand-alone version of its database, in response to similar efforts from Oracle and Microsoft to fend off open source competition

Microsoft patches ActiveSync

News Those with extra security controls on their Windows machines should now be able to sync with Windows Mobile devices without problems

Sony rootkit farce continues

News Three weeks after the controversy began, Sony's DRM woes are showing no sign of letting up. It has now admitted that its latest uninstall software opens a back door for hackers

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