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Archive - 22 Apr 2005

Moore's Law mag found under floorboards

News It's amazing what you can find under your floorboards: a 1965 copy of the original magazine containing Gordon Moore's famous article, worth $10,000, for instance

C++ creator: it's bigger than ever

News Builder: C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup claims that the programming language has never been bigger, but not everyone agrees

Testing times for open source

Leader Testing software is hard, dull and necessary. If open source can crack that, everyone will benefit

Hacker attacks music file sharers

News Brief: File sharers are the target of a virus that deletes music collections

Opera CEO throws down Atlantic challenge

News The chief executive of Opera software has promised to swim from Norway to the US if a million copies of the browser are downloaded in its first four days of release

Yahoo opens up dead Marine's email

News The Internet firm has given the father of a US Marine killed in Iraq access to his late son's email, but only after a court order obliged them do so

VoIP: Not just about free calls

News While price is the main attraction for Europeans, Americans are interested in wireless VoIP because it helps them cope with patchy GSM coverage, says one vendor

Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'

News A software design expert claims that software quality is declining everywhere except in the open source world, but others insist that proprietary software is just as good as the alternative

Apple's environmental record under fire

News Steve Jobs had harsh words for those singling the Mac maker out for criticism when it comes to its record on the environment

Lack of testing 'threatening stability of Linux'

News One of the maintainers of the Linux kernel has said that a lack of 'credit or money or anything' for those who test the open source OS could threaten its long-term stability

Is Bluetooth doomed?

News Ultrawideband and NFC could be ringing the death knell for the short range wireless technology, at least in the mobile space

Hynix fined $185m for DRAM price fixing

News The memory-chip firm has pleaded guilty to antitrust charges bought by the US Department of Justice, and has been hit with the largest fine for such an offence during President Bush's term

Photoshop CS2

Review If you're a professional or ambitious amateur digital artist, we highly recommend Adobe Photoshop CS2.

IBM muddies dual-core pricing waters

News The hardware and services behemoth has formalised its policy on pricing for dual-core chips, but the system is far from simple

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