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Blog Friday 24/09/2004 Sony has finally noticed that nobody likes their digital music model. Until now, just about all of Sony's audio digital players -- minidisk, flash and hard disk -- have only...
OpenOffice.org reveals marketing ambitions
News The organisation behind the cross-platform office suite has released a marketing plan which explains how it plans to promote its open-source product
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Confessions of a teenage hacker, horsey mishaps on eBay, Merlin's troubles with Linux and a large helping of cheese make Rupert's week no weirder than usual
Public 'left out' as governments plot Internet regulation
News The UN's new policy on Internet governance is alarming some parts of the Web community
And the richest man in the world is...
News ...Bill Gates - a position he has held for over a decade. But other tech fortunes are more mixed in the latest Forbes rich list
Hackers use Google to access photocopiers
News Making copies of something important? Photocopiers are the latest networked devices to fall prey to hackers armed with nothing more than Google's search engine
India shares open-source experience
News India's National Informatics Center has launched a Web site to share the government's experiences with open-source software
Microsoft announces licensing tweaks
News Brief: The software company's volume-licensing programme has been updated
Young Scots offered interactive democracy
News The Scottish Executive is seeking to teach future voters about democracy through a new Web site
Google's search will go beyond the browser
Leader Google has bought in browser expertise, but talk of an IE competitor is missing the point
UK VoIP firm lands major deal
News Sir Terry Matthews' latest venture has landed a deal with Marconi that could give it a juicy slice of BT's 21st Century Network pie
Outlook horror stories
Tech Guide Microsoft Outlook is far from perfect, but the good news is that its most common failings can be corrected. We show you how.
Apple vs Apple: The long and winding road
Feature How big a Beatles fan is Steve Jobs? If the battle with Apple Corp. is to be resolved, his love of the band may be pushed to the limit
Piracy cut back by compliance laws
News Having to fit in with new laws is keeping big businesses in line when it comes to counterfeit software - but their smaller counterparts are still a problem
Sender ID dealt killer blow
News Microsoft's proposal 'is dead', says the IETF, which has shelved the anti-spam specification
Oracle extends PeopleSoft deadline - again
News Brief: For the eleventh time, Oracle has given PeopleSoft investors more time to tender their shares
Google browser speculation grows
News The rumour that the search giant is planning to develop its own browser just won't go away
Linux firms join forces on security
News Mandrakesoft and other Linux vendors are to push the open-source OS to a higher level of security certification
