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Review Unless you have intense graphics requirements, you really can't go wrong with the much-improved iBook.
European Parliament urges open source protection against Echelon
News A major investigation into the communications spy network says European business and individuals should encrypt all emails - and open source software could hold the key.
Cyber-chatter confusion
Comment Lara Croft, of course, is not humanoid, but insectoid. The star of Lara Croft, the movie -- starring Angelina Jolie -- has abdominal muscles; but Lara Croft, the CyberBabe, has a chitinous...
Apple WWDC: Let's put the future behind us
Comment 'Tis the week of Apple's annual Worldwide Development Conference, and, true to form, Steve Jobs made another set of announcements. The obvious stuff -- such as the LCD-only display product line --...
Broadband - you are the the weakest link
News Microsoft supremo Bill Gates adds his voice to broadband concerns
Europe broadband to boom by 2005
News There is a silver lining to the broadband fiasco, but to realise it telcos, regulators and service providers must work together
Election 2001: Lib Dems say Labour's IT strategy is not working
News Not pushing BT hard enough over local loop unbundling is one failure, claim the Liberal Democrats, as is not providing a lead in the tricky issue of mobile phone masts
Staff shop bosses for using pirate software
News Disgruntled employees are the ones most likely to report their companies for using pirated software packages
Low income groups move online
News The Internet is making big inroads into the less privileged sectors of society, which could be good news for e-commerce
Music tug of war means users lose out
News More than 885,000 users have helped build CDDB, a online music database, but it's been maintained by Gracenote. Who's in control of the database? It looks like the courts will decide
Bosses to block Big Brother video streams
News Companies are preparing for the Internet phenomenon that last year crashed corporate networks and cost businesses £1.4m a week
UK loses interest in wireless Net
News To companies like BT and Vodafone, it's the future of wireless. But consumer interest is declining
Kingston adds voice to broadband assault
News Humberside's telecommunications service provider has joined the growing number of companies criticising BT for its handling of ADSL
Text messaging could pose health risk
News The British Medical Association fears that children could be damaging their internal organs when sending messages
Motorola and Sony play ball
News Dragonball deal to further the reach of Sony's memory stick
BSkyB partner closes UK operations
News The UK arm of Australia's Comet Satellite & Cable, which was to install satellite equipment for BSkyB, has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 160 jobs
IM buddy making more powerful friends
News Instant messaging comes of age with real-time stock market quotes
FBI cracks down on Internet fraud
News Scams cheated consumers out of £80m
Microsoft puts 64-bit Windows to the test
News As Intel prepares to launch its 64-bit Itanium chip, Microsoft will announce a high-end version of Windows XP, ready to challenge Unix
Time for a new domain name: dot-stupid
Comment It seems that the Internet is finally going to get some new top-level domains. The Internet is going to expand beyond dot-com, dot-net, dot-org and the few other now-familiar extensions with two...
Intel asks workers to take unpaid leave
News Following the March announcement that 5,000 jobs are to go at the chip giant, Intel is now asking employees to take unpaid summer holidays
New FireWire forges ahead at double speed
News A new version of FireWire - dubbed IEEE 1394b - could initially double the speed of connection between PCs and peripherals. And it's almost twice as fast as the upcoming USB 2.0 standard
Hackers put Net security watchdog out of action
News In a perfect display of irony the US centre charged with warning others about attacks is hit by a DoS attack
