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Archive - 22 May 2001

Microtek ScanMaker 8700

Review The ScanMaker 8700 work faster than parallel or USB scanners, but operator speed remains a key factor.

Software links mobiles to LAN

News Mobile Communications Center adds faxing, attachments

Internet users will have control of Big Brother cameras

News Ground-breaking technology will be used in the next series of the Channel Four television programme that will give Internet viewers more control than ever before

First Itanium to have short shelf life

News Itanium servers for the telco market will be largely symbolic until the arrival of the chip's successor

AOL raises rates in the States

News Time to cut back on online chatting? Beginning in July, Internet giant America Online plans to hike its US subscriptions rate by $1.95 for its monthly unlimited use plan

NCR displays Bluetooth cashpoint

News Next-generation cash machine would have no screen or keyboard - just a Bluetooth connection to your PDA

Corporate porn filters mean big business

News Surfing for porn at work could become a thing of the past

Activation problems hit Palm.net

News Customers complain that you can buy Palm's product but you 'can't really use it'

Spammers -- are they stupid, or is it us?

Comment "Is snoring ruining your life?" -- I was asked in this morning's email.

Super-gaming fragging-listic, Xbox is audacious

Comment They say it will be the ultimate games machine. Maybe. The one thing we don't know, yet, about the Xbox -- is whether you'll be able to get one; and the next thing we don't know, is whether it will...

Global software piracy on the rise

News A BSA study puts the tab on piracy at $11.4bn, but worldwide governments keen to grow their technology sectors are stepping up efforts to curb the trend

Iomega chief Albertson resigns

News Another nail in the coffin for ailing maker of computer hardware

Election 2001: Tory manifesto embraces freedom of the Net

News Web veterans will approve of the Conservative approach to monitoring Internet activity

Motorola debuts new PowerPC chip

News Motorola's PowerPC 7440 is a low power version of the chip used in Apple Macs -- but it won't appear in Steve Jobs' computers

Decoding Microsoft's open source argument

News Red Hat chief technology officer Michael Tiemann deconstructs a column by Microsoft's Craig Mundie outlining software giant's shared code philosophy

Linux looks good on server

News But operating system's future on client remains cloudy

How to stake out a domain-name claim

News Even though Icann is gradually releasing new domains - think .biz, .pro and .museum - it's as hard as ever for ordinary folks to nab a corner of cyber real estate

2001 is not the 'Year of the Penguin'

Comment Despite Microsoft's new, questionable, licensing schemes, 2001 is not going to be the year of the Penguin for home or business users that have yet to adopt Linux.

Hacker trackers throw in the towel

News While e-business may have slumped, online vandalism has been booming, so much so that Attrition.org can no longer keep up with the number of Website defacements

The taming of a generation as MP3.com is bought

News Vivendi Universal's acquisition of MP3.com is further evidence that online music's era of raucous, market-shaking experimentation is fading

Will Unix roots help Apple grow?

News Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers?

A Year Ago: Netimperative.com bites the dust

News Another dot-com startup calls in the liquidators as speculation mounts as to who will be next

Sony CLIE PEG-S300/E

Review Disappointing for a Sony device, despite the pleasing design. Wait for the colour version.

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