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Archive - 22 May 2003

Home Wi-Fi 'crucial' for wireless take-up

News The Wi-Fi industry is focusing its attention on the home as Myzones - which aims to make it easy to share bandwidth with neighbouring homes - is launched

AOL updates IM and email to halt decline

News In an effort to halt the steady decline in its subscriber base, AOL has started beta testing the latest version of its Internet service software

High and confusing prices 'hampering' Wi-Fi take-up

News Customers, especially corporations, are being put off from embracing Wi-Fi because the pricing is 'all over the place', industry figures have been warned

Wearable camera could store your life in images

News HP's Bristol laboratory is researching a wearable, always-on camera that could capture terabytes of images, and then select the most memorable ones automatically

IT salaries hit the floor, bounce back

News Salaries in the IT sector hit rock bottom in 2002, but a recent survey indicates they will be on their way up by the end of this year

New Intel chipset for the masses

Tech Guide Code-named Springdale, Intel's new 865 chipset includes a number of advancements for mainstream users.

Get ready for the post-PC, post-Web world

Comment Kevin Werbach: To understand where the technology industry is going, don't focus on the future - look to yesterday

Don't redesign your Web site blindly - analyse usage data first

Feature Don't be one of those managers and designers that rely on instinct or personal preference when making Web redesign decisions -- use actual data

Gates: Spam erodes trust in technology

News Bill Gates told a US Senate committee that spam costs businesses billions of dollars. He also made some suggestions about how to deal with the growing problem

New Intel chipset for the performance crowd

Tech Guide Code-named Canterwood, Intel's new 875P chipset includes a number of advancements for demanding users.

Sars hits PC sales, helps remote working

News Sars has been responsible for massive downturn in PC sales around China, but analysts expect the market to bounce back, helped by more remote workers

Database sales decline, SQL makes gains

News Sales of database licences fell almost 10 percent last year, but Microsoft's SQL Server significantly increased its market share

Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard

News Gator's 'pop-up advert' utility has been the subject of numerous court battles in the US. A recent investigation by Harvard University has provided insights into the controversial software

Nvidia banks on budget chip

News The Quadro 500 is the latest of Nvidia's FX chips for workstations, aiming to overcome the glitches that hit earlier versions

Broadband Britain booms with two million home users

News Adoption of broadband is speeding up, taking only seven months to rack up the latest million subscribers, but the UK still lags in some areas

Samsung SGH-V200

Review The tri-band GPRS SGH-V200 is a compact and well designed phone, with a built-in digital camera featuring a unique swivelling lens.

First Anti-Spam Day launched

News Surfers are urged to dump junk mail as Yahoo kicks off the first ever global anti-spam protest day

Playboy does mobile deal with 3

News UK subscribers to Hutchison's 3G service will now be able to access pictures and video clips from Playboy on their mobile phones

802.11g on track for finalisation

News The latest wireless LAN specification is nearly ready for approval as a standard, a step which could bring companies such as HP and Microsoft on board

Euro notes may be radio tagged

News Hitachi is rumoured to be in talks with the European Central Bank about embedding radio tags into euro banknotes

HP aims to encourage upgrades with new hardware

News Several factors are coming together to make business hardware upgrades a must, argues, HP - so companies might as well take the plunge now

InFocus creates Wi-Fi projector module

News Projector company InFocus has launched an 802.11b wireless module that enables virtually any projector to connect with a Wi-Fi-enabled computer

Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy

News A new policy from the W3C has shut out royalty-bearing patents, a compromise between open-source advocates and proprietary software companies - but critics say the policy is not foolproof

New act opens for Opera on the Mac

News Despite new competition from Apple's new Safari browser, Opera is to continue developing on the Mac platform, with a new release due on Thursday

Opera caterwauls about new MSN glitch

News The Norwegian browser company is accusing Microsoft of yet another misconfiguration of its MSN site that disproportionately affects Opera users

Amazon adopts Windows Media 9

News The e-commerce giant has struck a deal to use Microsoft's latest streaming media technology on its sites, adding to Microsoft's momentum in the media market

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