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Blog Wednesday 26/4/2006 So there I am, typing away, minding my own business, when some internal disruption deep in the Stygian darkness of my computer bubbles to the surface like the miasma from a...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Keep wireless weapons sharp for the fight to come, Nintendo's number one - why try harder?, and trenchant stupidity displayed in all quarters. It makes him so mad, you know...
No defence for roaming charges
Leader The GSM Association wants you to believe that making things cheaper will cost you more. That's not the way a free market works, even in telecommunications
BT Global Services Ignites wide-area SOAs
News Builder: BT hopes a new SOA product will persuade big businesses to experiment with distributed applications
'Affordable' mainframe on offer for £56,000
News IBM's latest zSeries system lowers the price base for true mainframe system in a bid to attract new customers
Siemens takes blame for MOT IT crash
News Siemens has admitted its system was behind the widespread problems affecting the computerised MOT service this week
BT snaps up Dabs.com
News The telecoms giant has added the UK's leading IT Web-based retailer to its portfolio, which could help it develop as a supplier of technology products and services
Is the Palm OS missing the multimedia boat?
Feature PalmSource still has a huge chunk of the US market, and can count on thousands of loyal developers, but many companies looking for multimedia and high-speed wireless are opting instead to write for...
Shareholders take stock of Apple
Analysis Steve Jobs, grilled by shareholders, has defended the company's progress on recycling, market share efforts and his own role with Disney
Intel steps up chip cadence
News The chipmaker has disclosed plans to overhaul its underlying processor designs more than twice as frequently as it has in the past
BSA offers £20k bounty to rat on your boss
News Disgruntled workers are a prime source of tip-offs
SiteAdvisor
Review SiteAdvisor is an easy-to-use and intuitive browser plug-in that identifies Web sites that might offer spyware-infected downloads and might spam their registered users.
Microsoft earnings slip below targets
News Microsoft said the weaker earnings came as it invests money in its services push and also as it tries to ramp up production of the Xbox 360 games console
New Sun CEO rakes in rich reward
News Jonathan Schwartz stands to get $3m in cash per year and plenty of stock as Sun's new top executive, amidst investor criticism over lacklustre results
Millions of Microsoft-based ultra mobile PCs to be sold
News The slow advance of the UMPC will be hampered by the lack of appropriate processors, and short battery life, but is likely to find a niche, In-Stat said
Intel to undergo widespread restructuring
News The company will 'restructure, resize and repurpose' all its units in the face of more aggressive competition
