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Blog Friday 25/2/2005 It wouldn't be possible to finish the week without a moment's respect for the passing of Hunter S Thompson. An inspiration to many and a shocking warning to thousands more, he...
Preview: Intel Developer Forum
Preview IDF: Dual-core licensing and unclogging data traffic are likely to be the hot topics at Intel's annual developer event in San Francisco next week
Skype to offer free texts
News Users of the VoIP service can now send and receive SMS messages, for free, using the software
Europe crowned as Internet Villain
News The ISPAs have spoken again, with Europe slammed for threatening e-commerce and Stephen Timms lauded for his work as UK e-commerce minister
Big plans for Linux on mobile phones
News A company pushing Linux into the mobile space is gunning for Microsoft and Symbian
Microsoft increases support for SMEs
News The software giant has revamped its Small Business Centre Web site, adding a security centre, training videos and discussion boards
IT apologies mask sorry state of affairs
Leader Can you ever trust someone who never says sorry?
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
News The software giant has admitted specifically excluding users of the popular Windows compatibility toolkit with its update tool
Maximizer 8
Review Maximizer is one of the most full-featured contact managers we've seen, suitable for growing small businesses that also need customer relationship management tools.
Northern Ireland hits broadband saturation
News Every local telephone exchange in Northern Ireland now offers ADSL, after BT received a £10m subsidy
IBM throws its weight behind PHP
News Big Blue is to create a bundle including Cloudscape and Zend's PHP development tools, but insists it is still committed to Java
Political apathy maintained online
News The majority of Internet users can't name their local MP, and fewer than 2 percent have visited their representative's personal Web site
Redmond predicts database price war
News Microsoft released a lower-price version of SQL Server aimed at SMEs on Wednesday, and predicts that this will be the opening salvo of a major pricing battle
ISS reveals cross-platform antivirus flaw
News A flaw in Trend Micro's antivirus library has been revealed by Internet Security Systems, and it affects at least 29 products running on several operating systems
Microsoft patches firewall problems
News A flaw in Windows XP that led to Blue Screens of Death for people using third-party security products has been patched
Microsoft extends anti-piracy initiative
News From next month you will need to get a Microsoft employee's authorisation if you try to reinstall Windows XP on a machine that had the OS preinstalled
Firefox phishing flaw fixed
News A vulnerability that could allow Web addresses to be spoofed has been fixed in an updated version of the Firefox browser
Fujitsu to unleash Itanium leviathan
News Several months late, Fujitsu is expected to announce a 64-processor Itanium 2 server in April
