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Archive - 22 Mar 2002

Sax-playing Bill Clinton MyLife.b worm could delete your Windows files

Help/HowTo This worm is a variation on the original Mylife worm sent earlier this month and this time it's got a file-destroying payload

Sun to sell Zaurus at JavaOne

News This year's Java conference aims to highlight Sun's strategy for unifying the fragmented mobile world through software that can run on many operating systems. A big draw could be a discounted...

Fordtelematics drives Mondeo man out of trouble

News Vodafone teams up with Ford to create a state-of-the-art, in-vehicle communication system

Direct network traffic with IBM chip

News The lower-cost PowerNP network processor is designed for smaller offices

Bouncing back from a lay-off in a tough job market

News Guidance for finding the right type of work after redundancy

Preparing for a WinNT to Win2K upgrade

Feature There is nothing like experience to teach a network administrator the right way to do something.

Humanoid robot goes to work on Linux

News HRP-2P is significantly more agile than R2-D2, and its creator Kawada says it will be good for more than just entertainment - this robot is designed to do useful work

IBM plays down hard-drive concerns

News IBM is responding to customer concern about the wording of its warranty for the high-speed 120GXP desktop hard-disk drives

Mandrake Linux download policy angers club members

News The Linux distributor is appealing to its user base to make donations to help it through tough times - but some members feel they've been jilted in return

McKinsey tops the IT anthem charts

News The ever-popular site dedicated to corporate image manipulation at its worst is back, hosted by ZDNet UK

Start-up crams single chip with phone, GPS and Bluetooth

News Stuffing Bluetooth, GPS and GSM into a handheld product is asking for trouble, but one company's making a chip that does it all

News Schmooze: The end of the merger marathon

News HP and Compaq voted, Google bowed to cult pressure, and Eidos revealed the new - Goth - Lara Croft

Scientologists force closure of ISP's Internet connection

News Dutch ISP Xtended Internet was cut off by its upstream provider after pressure from the Scientologists over a Web site that it hosted

CRM: It is about the technology

Comment Eugene Lacey: E-business tools are in their infancy and still far from perfect. But despite the pitfalls, CRM is our best hope for experiencing better service at the sharp end.

Platinum luxury phones have 'no competition'

News Vertu, a subsidiary of Nokia that produces luxury phones for a select market, doesn't see any real competition affecting its business in the near future

Too much trust in open source?

Feature In the past few months, the open source community has been given a wake-up call - three flaws in Linux applications

Microsoft sweeps out Hotmail accounts

News People using the free email service are seeing their folders and in-boxes cleaned out as their junk-mail folders fill with pitches for a paid version of Hotmail

Debunking the Microsoft myths

Comment David Coursey has been to see Microsoft for himself, and has found that many of the popular myths about the company don't match up with the reality.

GDC: PlayStation 3 - The next generation

News Research on Sony's next PlayStation console is focusing on distributed computing methods to increase the processing power

Let the script kiddies play in the sandbox

Comment Ever heard of sandboxing? It's a technology that safeguards your PC from viruses by running them in a protected environment, so they can't harm your data.

Just how safe is Outlook 2002?

News According to an Internet privacy researcher, four issues continue to undermine the security of Microsoft's Outlook 2002 and could leave the email program open to attack by virus writers

Will PC makers copy Apple's price hike?

News It doesn't look likely, say analysts - even though the industry's suffering the same higher costs for flat panels and memory. But PC makers have a trick up their sleeve

IBM, BEA in server-software dead heat

News The two companies are neck-and-neck in the Java-based application-server software market

Five years ago: Compaq to square up to Dell for small SMEs

News A leading Compaq dealer has confirmed Compaq will sell direct, but only to small to medium enterprises of less than 10 people

Microsoft Wireless Desktop

Review If wires on the desktop annoy or restrict you, this is a good solution.

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