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News Distributed computing, where millions of PCs work together, is to help in the quest for a compound to render anthrax harmless
Athlon gets souped-up chipsets
News AMD's Athlon processors will get the ability to use DDR333 memory with new offerings from Via and SiS, boosting the speed of high-performance systems
The Looking Glass world of telco deregulation
Comment Bringing broadband to a wide audience has proved slower than expected - but why is the UK so far behind?
Amazon posts first profit
News International gains in the fourth quarter drive Amazon to report its first-ever profit -- on record sales
Turning script kiddies into programmers
Comment How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy
HP opens UK Cooltown for digital nomads
News The UK Cooltown project in Wokingham is a vision of the future, says Hewlett-Packard, with mirrors that dissolve into to-do lists, and democratic desks
Freeserve attacks AOL over UK customer claims
News AOL Time Warner is accused of 'peddling wild and extravagant claims' after announcing that AOL is the UK's leading ISP
VeriSign, IBM strike security pact
News VeriSign and Big Blue are to announce a security alliance including joint sales, marketing and technology
Net paedophile investigation breaks new ground
News Covert tactics have been used for the first time to arrest and sentence a British Internet paedophile
Bill Gates' memo: The end of innocence
Comment Bill's security memo to Microsoft employees marks a bittersweet moment: realisation that we must protect computers and those who depend on them
Asian enterprises turn to Linux
News Windows is still the market leader in server operating systems, but increasing numbers of firms in Asia are cutting costs by using Linux
Port 12345: Hacker haven or Internet X-File?
News Increased activity on port 12345 could be due to hackers, an antivirus product or something else altogether
Sources: AOL not bidding for Red Hat
News AOL might not be about to buy Red Hat, but it will have to find some way of getting around Microsoft's desktop operating system advantage, say analysts
Five years ago: DVD-ROM is here
News The next generation of storage media arrived today as Hitachi formally announced its DVD-ROM drive, which will be followed by a 'write many times' DVD-RAM drive by the end of the year
IBM takes on Dell with 80 percent server savings claim
News Self-healing and measurement, not hardware costs, are the main focus of IBM's dramatic cost of ownership claims
Illustrator 10.0
Review Illustrator is a must-have tool for professionals who generate vector graphics for print and the Web, and the new Symbols support makes this a must-have upgrade.
