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Archive - 25 Oct 2002

IT Anthems: Philips was my first love

Feature Words fail us. The zany Dutch tech company excels itself with a cover of one of the defining anthems of the 1970s

Thursday

Blog Thursday 24/10/2002Tablets are everywhere, as Microsoft tries to tell us that what we need is a laptop with no keyboard. Personally, I find A4-sized tablets hard to swallow. It's true that they...

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Comment Rupert goes overboard in the Navy, trains his cellphone to imitate Dr Who and bemoans the passing of his digital life history. But what's that crunching sound from the newsdesk?

Smartphones, tablet PCs and even smaller things

Comment News Schmooze: Microsoft, Vodafone and Symbian commenced battle, tablet PCs geared up and IBM made a circuit that's a gas.

Warning over e-card spam scam

News Security companies are warning of an e-card company that downloads a spamming application onto visitors' PCs

Dabs.com's cable cut

News Online tech retailer Dabs.com was knocked off the air on Friday by a 'broken cable', but hopes to be back up for the weekend

India's IT firms urged to look to UK

News Britain will use the Bangalore IT.com trade show to strengthen technology links between India and the UK

StorageNetworks plans job cuts

News The software storage company plans to cut 27 percent of its work force in an attempt to spare expenses

ATI goes mainstream with new graphics technology

News Three new graphics processors bring DirectX 9.0 support and ATI's industry-leading Radeon 9700 Pro technology to a lower-cost consumer market

Microsoft posters don't stick in NYC

News New York City has ordered Microsoft to net its butterflies

Telewest claims success in broadband 'Whiskas' test

News The cable firm claims to be beating BT in parts of Britain where there is a choice of broadband providers

BT shrugs off Freeserve broadband complaints

News Freeserve is accused of 'perpetual but redundant belly-aching' after calculating that UK consumers could be £100m worse off because of BT Broadband

New age rating system for games in Europe

News An age rating system has been put in place in Europe to ensure children aren't exposed to unsuitable content

Government slammed for IT training scheme fiasco

News Blame lies at the Government's door for failed IT training scheme

Nvidia chips to make tardy debut

News The NV30 processor will make its debut next month, but volume shipments will not begin until next year. The delays have given rival ATI valuable time to catch up

Asus SpaceLink WL-300 Access Point

Review The WL-300 is an affordable route into 11Mbps wireless networking. If you can cope with a few odd phrases in the management software, and don't want the very fastest connection, this is a great...

Tech spending could crawl back to life

News A survey finds that a slim majority of CIOs expect growth to pick up in the first half of next year

Price wars give Amazon an edge

News Results are better than expected, but profits from some core areas disappoint

Apple goes retail with iPod

News A deal with a major US retailer could broaden the music player's sales in time for Christmas

CIOs pessimistic about their own technology

News A survey finds that most chief information officers do not believe their IT is reliable or gives their company an advantage

Meta founder advises detox for 'hungover' companies

News Businesses can use IT to manage bad contracts and haul themselves out of trouble, says Meta Group's Dale Kutnick

Vodafone gambles on 'biggest ever launch'

News The mobile operator takes Japanese-style mobile services back to the UK with a heavily marketed new service

D-Link AirPlus DI-614+

Review Its ease of use, good performance, excellent security features and low price make the DI-614+ a strong candidate for home and office use -- but its limited range and restricted warranty...

Linux will power IBM supercomputer project

News The upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers will run on an extended form of Linux, a major endorsement for the open source operating system

Sun to step aboard Web services group

News The server maker reverses its adversarial stance against the WS-I, beginning a new chapter in the rivalry to control the direction of Web services

HP to double up Itanium chips

News New Itanium plans demonstrate that HP can take Intel's chips in its own direction