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Blog Friday 22/7/2005 And so London slips into the weekend in a rather dazed state of mild shock. Reports reach me that tea is no longer seen as sufficiently bracing to cope with the events of this...
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Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
News A software patent filed by Microsoft in the US has been described as 'very dangerous'
Microsoft christens its latest baby
News The next iteration of Microsoft's desktop operating system, previously known as Longhorn, has been given an official name
HP loses tech visionary in R&D cull
News After restating its commitment to R&D, HP has slashed four projects and is preparing to say goodbye to IT guru Alan Kay
HOLD: Yahoo Firefox toolbar reaches Mac and Linux
News Yahoo has followed in Google's footsteps by making its toolbar available on three popular desktop operating systems
Dixons' easy choice led to hard decision
Leader Speed, attention to detail, the bottom line. Outsourcing deals need all three to make sense
Time Computers denies tales of woe
News Rumours of financial troubles at Time Computers are just the work of a 'disgruntled employee', according to the firm's parent company
82 percent of companies to use RFID
News More than four-fifths of US businesses plan to use the tracking technology at some point, with 69 percent looking at it this year
Business Objects plays catch-up with SRC buy
News Brief: $100m in cash should buy back Business Objects some ground lost to its rivals in the corporate performance-management market
IBM singing Harmony's tune
News Builder: Currently IBM is just helping with design, but significant donations of code to the open source Java project are expected down the line
'The future is open source'
News That's the view of many top players in the industry, as they explained at a Stanford conference yesterday
