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Archive - 27 Jul 2006

Where on the horizon is Vista?

Analysis Analysis: Analysts will be looking for answers from Microsoft this week, but a firm ship date for Vista may not be among the details they are given

Why India said no to the $100 laptop

Leader Although other countries have already started to place orders, India wants nothing to do with the One Laptop Per Child project. They may have learned something already

Topping the hype curve — mobile TV and IPTV

News Meanwhile, HDTV, Wi-Fi and others are making their way up the slope of enlightenment

India ditches 'potentially harmful' $100 laptop plan

News India's education secretary called the project "pedagogically suspect", saying the money would be better spent on teachers and classroom

Upstart could shake up networked storage

Feature ATA over Ethernet provides a cheap way to network servers with a large pool of storage — but it's got some catches

US voices openness to private Net control

News Despite assertions last year to the contrary, a US Commerce Department official says the US is exploring privatisation of the DNS

Security experts voice IE7 push concerns

News Microsoft's decision to push IE7 to customers via Automatic Updates has been criticised by some security experts and rivals

BT results defy analysts

News BT has beaten analysts expectations and announced Wi-Fi phones, improved LLU rollout, and renamed The Project Formerly Known As 21CN

No let-up in smartphone frenzy

News Motorola was able to beat RIM for the first time after shifting more than 1 million Linux-based units in China

Euro satellite navigation takes to the skies

News The new satellite system could deliver benefits of up to 74bn euros, and could be 'essential' to the future of transportation

US cyber spies want more rights to snoop on foreigners

News Current regulations make it almost as hard to spy on foreigners as Americans, agencies complain

Microsoft coughs up for health care software

News The company has acquired Azyxxi, database software for patient records

IT gets a seat on the board

News But IT professionals are losing out on the top jobs because they lack broader business perspectives and capabilities

GNER's on-board Wi-Fi arrives early

News GNER has already kitted out all 30 of its electric trains with Wi-Fi and is now putting the finishing touches to its diesel trains

SugarCRM polishes interface with AJAX

News Builder: Open source applications company SugarCRM prepares an August release and plans to expand into new product areas

UK failing to fight Internet fraudsters

News A government review has criticised the police for failing to take online fraud seriously, leaving criminals free to target Internet users

IBM DB2 9

Review DB2 9 has significantly raised the bar for database development with a pure XML solution and a free Express-C edition. Enhancements to administration features and functionality could make it a...

Are storage-server hybrids the future?

Analysis Analysis: The latest server products from IBM and Sun suggest that the barriers between data processing and storage are being broken down

Firefox hit by Trojan

News The FormSpy Trojan pretends to be a Firefox extention and takes advantage of PCs that are already infected

IE7 will be 'high-priority' update

News Microsoft will push out Internet Explorer 7 over its Automatic Updates service, but upgrading won't be compulsory

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