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Blog Friday 22/10/2004 San Francisco is a city with many reputations. It has in the past been "the best bad city in the United States", where licentious depravity lived alongside a disapproving -- yet...
Firefox smashes funding target
News Firefox's effort to raise funds for an ad in The New York Times was supposed to take 10 days. The money arrived in three days, and is still pouring in
First Wi-Fi phones get industry approval
News Five wireless products have been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as compatible with other 802.11x kit
Korean worm turns out to be Baba variant
News A worm that appears to have originated in Korea is actually a variant of the Baba worm rather than Netsky, according to security experts
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Old is the new new, an alarming party, nightmares in the office, an absence of curry, and why Rupert won't fall out of any more windows
Trojan attack uses fake Lewinsky pics
News This week a Trojan called hackarmy is posing as a non-existent photo of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton together
Pentium family gets new head chip
News The Pentium M model 765 features lower power consumption, says Intel, and is an important update to the Centrino line
Bristol ponders switch to StarOffice
News Bristol City Council is considering installing Sun's StarOffice suite on thousands of its desktop PCs
UK firms vent anger at software patents
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is gathering testimony from British businesses and coders opposed to software patents
Google's profits double year-on-year
News Google annouced its first results as a public company on Thursday evening, and its shares jumped by as much as 10 percent in after-hours trading
Google versus Microsoft: the battle is joined
Leader Google's first quarter as a public company is suitably full-figured. But other factors make it a good long-term bet
Netscape: A decade of survival
Feature The Netscape browser has turned 10, but faces a challenging future in a market still massively dominated by Internet Explorer
Western Digital Media Center 250GB
Review Featurewise, Western Digital's Media Center external hard drive blows away Maxtor's competing OneTouch, but it's an uneven performer.
Nanoparticle research blows open new possibilities
Feature A Californian start-up has created a process that will allow for more powerful bombs, more efficient catalytic converters, better fuel cells and a whole host of other things at a new lower price
How to assess your storage needs
Help/HowTo Here are some tips for more accurately estimating storage needs, thereby smoothing out future capacity-planning efforts
New Netsky variant appears from Korea
News Despite the incarceration of the original author new variants of the Netsky worm are still appearing, with the latest version seemingly coming from South Korea, according to experts
Targus Universal Wireless keyboard
Review Although the full-size keys are nice, the Targus Universal Wireless Keyboard's dimensions and cumbersome installation trip up an otherwise good product.
Avis cancels PeopleSoft ERP system
News The car rental company is set to take a hit of €45m, partly due to IT restructuring which includes cancelling the PeopleSoft system because of problems with its 'design and implementation'
Government rejects IT recommendations
News The government has formally rejected a number of recommendations from a Parliamentary committee formed to look at IT in the DWP
Electronics industry gets ethical
News IBM, HP and Dell have all signed up to a new code of conduct that bans child labour, embezzlement and other undesirable practices, which they will enforce for all their suppliers
Indymedia server seizure 'may have breached RIPA'
News UK law enforcement agencies had no involvement in the seizure of the media network's London-based servers, says the government, raising the question of who in fact issued the court order
PeopleSoft profits higher than expected
News Despite the furore surrounding the departure of its chief executive and an expensive battle over a possible takeover by Oracle, PeopleSoft has posted higher than expected third quarter profits
Intel cancels another chip
News Intel has nixed plans for the second product in the space of a week. Having shelved plans for 4GHz Pentium 4s, it has now announced the end of the line for its LCOS TV chips
Belkin Wireless PDA keyboard
Review Although it's well priced and easy to use, small keys and a flimsy design keep this infrared keyboard from earning top marks.
Yahoo snatches up email search company
News Yahoo has bought up Stata Labs, a company that specialises in email search tools, and it is believed that it will discontinue the company's products but will use its technology
Microsoft earns even more than expected
News Microsoft's third quarter results have beaten its own expectations, with a profit of $2.9bn on revenue of $9.19bn
