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Archive - 22 May 2006

Privacy-friendly RFID?

Comment In a recent speech to the European Commission, Humberto Moran, chief executive of UK not-for-profit organisation Open Source Innovation, argued it is possible to create RFID systems that don't...

EU states failing to drive IT

News Member countries have been warned that their digital economic growth is being outstripped by the US, China and Japan

Microsoft pushes pay-as-you-go computing

News No, they don't mean "pay as you go to another operating system" -- Microsoft wants to offer PCs in emerging markets that work like prepaid mobile phones, with the user eventually owning the computer

It's time for the Government Misuse Act

Leader The ill-thought-out addition to the Computer Misuse Act could make criminals of large swathes of the IT industry. But it is the lawmakers who should really be on trial

Counting the cost of counterfeiting

Q&A Q&A: Michala Alexander, Microsoft's head of anti-piracy, claims that far from punishing users of counterfeit software the software giant just wants to help and educate them

Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab

Photo The scanning tunnelling microscope is one of the Nobel prize-winning technical breakthroughs to come out of IBM's Zurich laboratory. ZDNet UK went to have a peek at what the lab is working on now,...

.XXX porn domain may rise again

News The company whose plan for the adult suffix was rejected by ICANN has come back fighting with an armful of documents showing how far-right conservatives and Christians all the way up to the White...

Skype update hangs up on hackers

News Users of the Internet phone software should upgrade because of a weakness that could allow cyber crooks to siphon off their data

New security hole found in MS Word

News Microsoft is yet to patch a vulnerability that can open a backdoor for hackers to take over PCs

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