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Blog Thursday 22/7/2004 Long-term followers of the great Internet child-porn debate will be unsurprised that some confusion has followed BT's announcement that it has blocked hundreds of thousands of...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment A week in which Team Refusnik got out of sports day with a note from mum, a BT engineer revealed the true complexity of his job and details emerge of the plucky Brit taking on Intel
'Suicidal Osama Bin Laden' recruits a zombie army
News A Trojan horse disguised as CNN pictures of Osama Bin Laden committing suicide is being distributed on the Internet
RFID watches aim to stop counterfeiters
News Brief: The clock is ticking for Rolex rip-offs as Toshiba introduces a tiny chip that can be embedded in watches
A closer look at the benefits of blades
Comment Are blades all they're cracked up to be? They may actually be better for the companies that sell them than they are for the people who buy them
CipherTrust on the prowl for new technology
News Email security firm CipherTrust would like to go on the acquisition trail - if it doesn't get snapped up by a bigger company itself
EC wants giant data network
News A €100m system will allow the exchange of information between all national governments and EU institutions
Gazing away from the navel
Comment Where is blogging going?
Microsoft rejigs shipping schedule
News Brief: Service Pack 2 has pushed back the release of the next version of Virtual PC for the Mac
Microsoft updates Mac Office
Video The Redmond firm attended MacWorld this year - but how committed are they to their Mac products?
Is Microsoft 'Trustworthy' yet?
Video Microsoft claims it is making progress on security - in this audio report, David Berlind questions the company's VP on whether this is in fact the reality
SAP meets earnings projections
News The enterprise software firm has improved its US sales and started to win smaller customers
Salesforce.com explains figures
News The vendors has defended a slump in its share price, arguing it has been unable to reveal the full picture
Salesforce.com chief emerges from quiet zone
Q&A Marc Benioff, dubbed 'the biggest mouth in Silicon Valley', is free to sound off again
Government must demand project accountability - report
News US-style enforcement is needed to stop government IT project problems, according to an influential report
StuffIt Deluxe 8.5 for Windows
Review If you work on both the Mac and Windows platforms, it's worth sacrificing some ease of use with StuffIt Deluxe 8.5 for Windows.
Red Hat adopts Novell's code
News The Linux firm has appropriated an open-source email enhancement released by rival Novell
Hotmail accidentally lifts storage
News An upgrade saw new users inadvertently receiving 2 gigabytes of storage for free
Sun packs four Opterons into a server
News The company will next week renew efforts to put others' processors into its products
Microsoft beats estimates but still disappoints
News Revenue for the second quarter was higher than forecast, though some investors expected more
Olympics arms against virus threat
News Security officials in Athens are taking steps to stop worms crippling the Olympics' data network
