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Blog Thursday 22/06/2006 After a while asking around, I finally get an invite to join Writely, the thin client Ajax word processor that Google bought. It's nominally in closed beta, but as with Gmail...
Poor Wi-Fi drivers can expose laptops
News Wi-Fi devices are shipping with weaknesses which hackers are all too happy to take advantage of, security researchers have warned
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightning... but not as scary as Ofcom in a tizz. Plus mysterious goings-on at Microsoft and an even worse literary pun than last week. You have been warned
Phone phishing attack hits US
News Criminals are trying a new approach to try to dupe people into downloading a Trojan horse program
New boss has six months to make Novell work
Analysis Analysis: Novell's incoming chief executive Ron Hovsepian has a simple job description, according to the analysts: improve sales fast, or else
Open to the public
Leader We paid for it. We want it. Keeping public data open is the only acceptable standard for government IT
Google sells stake in Baidu
News The Internet search giant wants to concentrate on its own Chinese operations
Gartner: Open source on Windows is the future
News The lines between open source and proprietary software are blurring into a future where companies have stacks of open source software running on Windows, say analysts
IT blamed for tax credit problems
News Dame Barbara Mills believes inflexible IT systems have hampered efforts to fix the UK's tax credit system
Windows-friendly Xandros 4 launched
News Could you now move from Windows to Linux without noticing the difference?
Microsoft: Forget BI apps, the future is LOBi
News Business Intelligence is "too expensive and doesn't have high traction" says Microsoft's head of platform strategy
Nokia flagship boutique coming to London?
News Nokia is opening its second handset mega-boutique in Chicago, and a London version is likely to follow soon
Google Desktop 4 beta
Review Google Desktop 4 beta is less clunky than its predecessor, and we love the zippy search and creative Sidebar Gadgets. Still, we're wary of handing over our computing habits to Google's servers.
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
News In a blow to Microsoft, Belgium's government departments will be instructed to use an open file format for internal communications
Spinning electrons will speed up chips
News A new discovery in physics could dramatically increase chip performance by using microwaves instead of electrical wires
IBM gives developers free security tools
News IBM is beefing up its security offerings with more support for AlphaWorks
Storage Management Initiative rebooted
News Five major players are backing an initiative to create a new storage management standard
ActiveX 'feature' puts Office at risk
News Yet another weakness has been identified in Microsoft's flagship productivity suite
