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Archive - 23 May 2002

Flash arrives for Pocket PC

News Microsoft and Macromedia release a player that enables Flash multimedia content on Pocket PC devices

DVD site makes Wall Street debut

News Netflix, which rents DVDs over the Internet, has launched itself onto the stock market

IP telephony - time to make the call?

Feature It's been promised for a while, but IP telephony -- using your network to carry your voice calls -- has finally become a sensible alternative for company communications

Will IE patch open new holes?

Comment Microsoft's latest patch for Internet Explorer is supposed to fix a slew of vulnerabilities. But experts say it leaves some gaping security holes wide open. So should you install it or not?

FTC backs better facts for domains

News The US Congress is considering increasing the amount of information that domain name owners have to provide, in order to crack down on fraud

US Army using games to recruit soldiers

News Two games, specially developed for the US Army, are to be distributed so that potential soldiers can test skills and aptitude

Intel 850E v VIA P4X333

Tech Guide VIA has released a Pentium 4 chipset that supports a 533MHz frontside bus and DDR333 memory. We test it against Intel's 850E Rambus chipset.

PlayStation2 Linux kit ships in UK

News Sony finally ships its kit for turning consoles into a Linux console, a move it hopes will stoke developer interest in the platform

Mobile firms claim e-money laws threaten m-commerce

News The European Commission has been told to hold back from regulating 3G too tightly if it wants Europe to become a fully broadband-enabled society

Secure clients with ZoneAlarm

Feature This configurable tool, ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0, lets you call the shots with regard to what network traffic enters and leaves your client machines

SAP, Siebel rivalry heats up

News The two companies are still fighting for the CRM top spot as SAP reorganises and releases new products

Sun looks to Solaris 9 for salvation

News New technology built in to Sun Microsystems' new operating system is key to the company's long-term strategy

The incredible shrinking PC

News Antelope Technologies aims to build a PC that is the same size as a handheld, using IBM's Meta Pad design

Government urges work-life balance improvements

News Research shows that UK employees spend more time managing their email than playing with their children

Microsoft debugger flaw yields system keys

News The glitch could give attackers full control of a Windows NT or Windows 2000 system

Kazaa, Morpheus conceding defeat

News The second-generation file-swapping services appear to be headed the way of Napster, as they can no longer meet legal fees

Paint retailer brushes up on Linux

News Sherwin-Williams, a massive US paint maker, will convert cash registers in thousands of shops to the open-source operating system

Transforming a laptop into a robot

News A start-up aims to evolve robots into more useful tools by letting them respond to what's around them

Yahoo! concedes Europe auctions to eBay

News Yahoo! pares its European auction sites as it continues to cut back on money-losing operations

Tech missionaries spread the Net

News A not-for-profit organisation aimed at promoting literacy aims to link classrooms in Asia to the Internet

Survey: IT budgets still in flux

News IT managers are finding their budgets being tweaked - usually downwards - as companies remain nervous about spending

Five years ago: Service firm laments lack of UK PC technicians

News A UK PC services firm is recruiting school leavers to make up for the lack of skilled engineers available