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Archive - 27 Jan 2003

BT: Education key to broadband

News Four more Cornish local exchanges will be ADSL-enabled as local businesses flock to sign up for broadband, but it is education that makes the difference, says BT

Orange, mmO2, T-Mobile swap photo messages

News Update: Some may have been surprised to find that the camera phone they got for Christmas couldn't send pictures to phones on other networks. Three UK mobile phone networks have now made the first...

Broadband reaches one in 10

News Nearly one and a half million households in the UK now have broadband as take-up continues to grow, says Oftel

Boss Hogg's guide to radio networking

Comment Rupert Goodwins: A forgotten frequency is revived for data, but with both hands tied behind its back.

IBM to unveil Lotus 'lite'

News Lotusphere: A version of Lotus offering basic email without extra functions like a calendar is to be revealed this week

Telewest cuts cost of DIY broadband

News The cable firm believes it now has the lowest start-up fee of any UK broadband ISP

Beans make XML into Java

News BEA is offering a free service for Java developers who need to work with XML documents

Slammer 'could have originated from Asia'

News Internet traffic began to increase in Asia before other regions, leading to speculation that the worm could have started there

VoIP hang-up looming?

News Cheaper long-distance calls using the Internet are threatened by a potential shortage of numbers

UK sites hit by SQL worm

News Update: Hewlett-Packard is one of several major UK companies and Web sites that have felt the impact of this weekend's attack by the SQL Slammer worm, also known as Sapphire

Ethernet security leak discovered

Feature For years, Ethernet drivers have been quietly leaking sensitive data. Now it's public knowledge, so it is time to fix it quick

Red Hat boosts service subscription plan

News LinuxWorld: The Linux company has announced a new service subscription plan, which is key to its financial future

Reaping the rewards of teleworking

News Few organisations have had much success with teleworking. One firm has bucked that trend by experiencing increased productivity after its word processors began to work from home

Acer s60

Review Acer's Palm OS handheld eschews leading-edge technology, and its Memory Stick slot may not suit everyone, but the design is attractive and the price competitive.

Help & HowTo: Slammer

News The Slammer worm is causing problems around the world - find out how to avoid it, and what to do if infected

IBM enhances wireless notebooks

News The ThinkPad goes fashion-conscious with new covers for its track point - and there is wireless and enhanced software as well

Lindows: Jury to decide

News Microsoft and Lindows are to meet in court in April - a jury will decide whether 'windows' is a generic term or not

Liberty Broadband takeover finally resolved

News The government has agreed to allow Firstnet to offer a 'Wireless DSL' service, which could mean a wide-scale rollout of wireless broadband

Intel rounds out mobile chip family

News The chipmaker's upcoming Centrino line of mobile chips will include two lower-power versions aimed at ultraportables

City turns away from Office

News Houston is going further than just replacing Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers: Any resident with a library card will be able to install and use Simdesk at home for free

What's in a name? Not Palladium

News Microsoft has changed the name of its next-generation security technology to something that does not roll off the tongue quite as easily

Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs

Analysis Analysis: SQL Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm, has highlighted a dirty secret in the IT industry: Software bugs are common and administrators are slow to patch them