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Archive - 25 Nov 2005

Broadband take-up tipped to level out in two years

News Marketing campaigns, lower prices and wider coverage mean that 60 percent of the UK will have broadband by 2008

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Friday 25/11/2005 Much as astronomers build new and ever more powerful telescopes to push into the darkness at the edge of science, I must adjust my own perceptions of ridiculousness to cope...

Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial

News References to free software and Linux were removed from a UN document after Microsoft claimed that such software aims to 'make it impossible to make any income on software as a commercial product'

Thanksgiving will bring a Sober hangover

News The largest virus outbreak this year will gain new momentum when the US comes back from its Thanksgiving break, say experts. IT managers should brace themselves

BP hits out at security standards

News Vendors are failing to provide secure applications and systems says BP's director of security, who believes open source and open standards are the answer

CiceroPhone for Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Review Cicero Networks' softphone provides access to VoIP services over Wi-Fi and GSM networks from a single dialler. When seamless roaming between Wi-Fi and GSM is implemented, CiceroPhone should prove...

Open source projects: Why it pays to keep quiet

Feature Open Source Behind Closed Doors: In the second of a two part special report, ZDNet investigates how some proprietary vendors motivate customers to keep open source projects under wraps

Westminster Council widens Wi-Fi network

News A pioneering public sector wireless network is being extended, and should eventually bring Wi-Fi to local residents

SonyBMG's criminal intent

Leader Not content with infesting millions of PCs with malware, Sony and its cronies want to criminalise copying and spy on your calls.

Maxell to launch holographic storage next year

News The technology dream of storing terabytes of data on a single disk has taken a step closer to reality

Why open source projects are not publicised

Special Report Open source behind closed doors: In the first of a two part series ZDNet looks at why some open source projects remain secret

FSF keeps pushing for Microsoft server protocols

News Microsoft argues that revealing its server protocols would violate its intellectual property rights, but the Free Software Foundation Europe believes that the software giant's 'secret' information...

Photos: The Symantec bunker

Photo ZDNet UK has taken a trip inside Symantec's nuclear bunker to get a peek at how it fights the menace of cybercrime

Inside Symantec's nuclear bunker

Special Report Behind the security lines: In the first part of a special report on UK IT security research, ZDNet UK visits Symantec's operations centre in a decommissioned bunker

Windows: A Family History

Feature 20 years of Windows: Windows has seen many changes in its 20-year career. Here, we look at those versions which have evolved directly from the very first version, see how we got here from there -...

European governments failing on Web accessibility

News Hardly any public sector Web sites meet the basic standards laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium

Kazaa forced to block search terms

News The music industry has landed another win against the peer-to-peer network

Wiping the slate clean for Windows

Feature 20 years of Windows: Microsoft has jazzed up Windows, but GUIs come at a price

A life with windows

Feature 20 years of Windows: Colin Barker has used and written about Windows since the very first version. Like all long-term relationships, his shared life with Microsoft has had its ups and downs. Twenty...

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