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Blog Wednesday 23/05/2001 Intel's been around a while now, so the company's got experience in making the best of a bad thing. As, one suspects, the infinitely delayed Itanium chip may well turn out to...
Linux is dead, long live Linux
News The initial euphoria may have faded, but it's just the beginning for Linux as a mass-market contender, says one leading proponent
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Here's the week tech news from Rupert Goodwins viewpoint. Read on....
News Schmooze: They're watching you...
News Echelon exists, the government discovers the Internet, and the wireless Internet arrives, sort of...
New handheld aims to bridge digital divide
News A group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device called "Simputer" aimed at bringing computing to Third World nations
Finger points at Labour as Ericsson denies factory buyer story
News Tories accuse Labour of leaking sell-off
Intel set to rattle server market with Itanium
News Production versions of long-awaited 64-bit chip are set to ship
Microsoft and AOL ink Windows XP pact
News The companies have reached a tentative agreement under which the AOL 6.0 client will be bundled into Windows XP. Sources say the companies are also discussing the possible integration of the...
White House confirms third DoS attack in a month
News But the culprit is yet to come forward
Election 2001: Political parties show their IT stripes
News Are criticisms of a lack of understanding of IT among the main political parties founded? ZDNet talked to the politicians and examined their manifestos to find out
UK customer info threatened by ETour sell-off
News Dotcom struggles raise privacy concerns for Brits
Aimster hit with file-swap suit
News It's been a bad week for the file-swapping company. First it lost its domain name to AOL Time Warner, and now it faces a lawsuit from the recording industry charging that it is violating...
Transmeta to license AMD technology
News The chipmakers will announce a licensing pact that will allow Transmeta to use AMD's x86-64 and HyperTransport technologies in forthcoming chips
You've got mail - from Mars
News Now we can say we've seen it all. Network and space-exploration visionaries draft plans for an interplanetary Internet. No input from aliens -- yet
Studies blame WAP for mobile phone woes
News Two surveys say wireless application protocol is too confusing for cell phone users. WAP industry groups, however, point to other studies showing just the opposite
Firms time their switch to XP
News With Microsoft planning to ship its new client operating system in the fall, IT staffs are debating what to do about migrating their users. When is it the right time to make the big switch?
A Year Ago: Big leap for quantum computing
News Bell Labs' researcher Luv Grover has designed software that lets a quantum computer handle vague queries that result in multiple answers
Apple iBook
Review Unless you have intense graphics requirements, you really can't go wrong with the much-improved iBook.
