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Archive - 24 Jun 2003

Ellison extends support promise in PeopleSoft bid

News Oracle AppsWorld: In his keynote, Larry Ellison slammed Web services and CRM software hype - and promised extended support for PeopleSoft products if Oracle's takeover bid is successful

Welsh spurn Windows to create own Linux

News Linux User Expo: Wales-based computer users, tired of waiting for a Welsh-language version of Windows, are doing it themselves with open-source KDE desktop software

Use IP and BGP to troubleshoot Internet connectivity

Feature When your chief financial officer can't access a partner site, and wants to know why, you need to find out what's going on. Here are some ways to get the facts you need

Europe's online gender divide slow to close

News America remains the only country where the view that the Internet is a boy's toy has been properly sunk

Cygwin smuggles Unix shell commands into Windows

Feature Red Hat's Cygwin software lets administrators emulate Linux and Unix functions

Japanese group wants more human faces scanned

News A new industry consortium will promote widespread use of facial-recognition software

'No danger' of Internet-address shortage

News The rumour that Internet addresses will soon run out is untrue, says the man responsible for allocating them in the Asia Pacific region

Symantec expands security arsenal

News Symantec will lay electronic 'honey pots' for hackers and beef up its intrustion-detection software

Winamp pioneer makes peace with AOL

News Nullsoft's founder rescinds threat to leave AOL - for now

Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'

News The latest research urges the government to provide broadband vouchers for doctors and nurses, as other MPs warn there is a shortage of broadband champions within Westminster

Jon Hall: Open source should be protected from 'looters'

News Linux User Expo: A well-known open-source advocate compares SCO's Linux lawsuit to the theft of Iraq's national treasures

IBM puts Opteron on the rack

News A high-performance clustered server system based around the Opteron processor is to be unveiled at the ClusterWorld conference

Apple and Microsoft: Can this divorce be saved?

Comment David Coursey: Recent announcements by both companies indicate deep divisions between Apple and Microsoft - here is my view of what that means

HP hopes to serve up storage ace

News Storage-services spending is set to rise, say analysts, and Hewlett-Packard is hoping to cash in with five new packages

Microsoft puts handhelds in the Wi-Fi hot seat

News Microsoft is bundling a month's free Wi-Fi access with Pocket PCs, in a bid to boost use of hot spots

J.D. Edwards users speak out against Oracle

News J.D. Edwards customers fear being left out in the cold, if Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft succeeds

Jobs: G5 Power Macs will outperform any Windows PC

News The latest Apple hardware can take on any PC on the market, says Jobs as he unveils the new Power Macs and announces new software, including an iChat beta

Broadband's swept-up features fail to fire

News Broadband households use their bandwidth for faster email and Net surfing, rather than flashy multimedia services

Professor reveals EverQuest's 'inherent sexism'

News Research by an economics professor reveals female characters make less money than equally skilled males

Dutch PC maker sues Dell

News Dell stands accused of infringing the patent for a motherboard design owned by Netherlands-based Tulip Computers

Cheap Linux PCs targeted at home users

News A US start-up is selling PCs running the Linux operating system to consumers at bargain-basement prices

Apple unleashes Panther OS

News Apple will begin selling the latest version of its operating system, which it claims has 100 new features, later this year

'Walkie-talkie' mobile phones face testing time

News 'Push to talk' services that transform mobile phones into walkie-talkies are attracting investment from carriers

IBM signals Unix-server boost

News IBM is to release a dual-processor Unix workstation running a 1.45GHz processor

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Preview Apple's Mac OS X 10.3, also known as Panther, promises a range of improvements -- particularly to the user interface. We take an early look.

Intel and universities team to create super-Internet

News Industrial and academic heavyweights have launched an experimental network running on top of the Internet that will allow applications to span the globe

Apple Power Mac G5

News Apple has unveiled its fast, sleek 64-bit Power Mac G5. Get our early impressions of this hot new desktop PC.