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Blog Friday 26/11/2004 While researching the microengine story I typed "Inventor of the dynamo" into Google, just to refresh my schoolboy memory of what Michael Faraday actually did and when he did it....
Tech giants launch open-source messaging for Web services
News Builder: A Java implementation of reliable messaging could allow more robust Web applications
Feds try to take logs from Nmap creator
News The creator of Nmap has said on his Web site, insecure.org, that the FBI keeps trying to take data from his Web server
T-Mobile apes O2 with PDA phone roll-out
News Brief: T-Mobile's MDA III is a PDA with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and keyboard, and it's a GPRS mobile phone. It's also strangely familiar...
More UK and Irish firms showing significant growth
News Brief: A study has found that 35 percent of the 500 fastest growing European technology companies are based in the UK or Ireland
ISPs 'must do more' to combat cybercrime
News The CTO of betting exchange Betfair says that more cross-industry cooperation is needed to prevent denial-of-service attacks
Microsoft's Beijing win causes concern
News Microsoft's reported $3.6m contract win in Beijing has not been met with universal approval in China, where concerns over software from outside are growing
Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless
Q&A Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan says the latest DWP IT crash highlights the dangers of relying on one service provider
China poised to impose limits on overseas software
News Brief: The Chinese government is expected to issue regulations that will restrict overseas vendors from providing software to government departments
Government says Finnish with IE 6
News While the world waits for Microsoft to issue a patch for the IFRAME flaw, Finnish authorities have advised their people to avoid using Internet Explorer
Virus writers need a new order
Leader Virus writers are suffering from the perils of open source. We have a modest proposal to help them overcome this
BT to sell Eutelsat stake for £363m
News Brief: In a move widely seen as part of BT's continuing effort to re-focus on new-wave business, the telco has announced its intention to sell its stake in the satellite firm
Bofra exploit ticks away at Microsoft
News Time is ticking for Microsoft to produce a patch for the two-week-old Bofra exploit. But Redmond is still investigating the problem
Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
News Some 80,000 computers at the Department for Work and Pensions went down during 'a routine software upgrade' of its Microsoft machines this week
Time for an assault on batteries?
Feature Battery life has been one of consumers' biggest issues with technology for years, and that's not likely to change… but things are getting better
Nokia 9500 Communicator
Review Mobile professionals who need access to contacts, basic office documents and communications facilities will find that Nokia's 9500 Communicator covers the bases very well indeed.
VoIP: Is the tech ready?
Comment The question isn't so much whether the world is ready for VoIP, but more whether VoIP is ready for the world...
CRM rivals dismiss Microsoft's hosted efforts
News The market for hosted sales applications is booming, but Microsoft's rivals say there are fundamental impediments preventing the software giant from grabbing a share
Danon leaves BT for Capgemini
News Analysts are tipping a former Cable & Wireless man as Danon's successor at BT Retail
