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Blog Friday 28/1/2005 OK, I was wrong. I said that podcasting was the devil's own way of pouring aural concrete over the pristine grassy uplands of your iPod's hard disk. That it was yet another way...
Government concerned about MySpooler worm
News The organisation that protects the UK's critical national infrastructure has warned users to prepare for the MySpooler worm, which targets weakly protected Windows servers running MySQL
Will Honeycomb sweeten Sun's future?
Feature Sun has a product launch planned for later this year which looks at reasserting the server company's presence in the data storage market
Linux use doubles in financial organisations
News Growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past twelve months, say researchers
Spyware: Is it clogging up your network?
Case Study The cause of intermittent network connectivity problems can be hard to pin down in complex modern systems, but checking for spyware is a good place to start
Could thin clients cure your security headaches?
Feature Are you longing for days of yore without mass-mailing worms, Trojans masquerading as security patches and zombie armies? Thin clients might be a way to get that time back
Microsoft profits double
News Citing strength in both the business and consumer markets, Microsoft on Thursday reported better-than-expected quarterly sales - and profits that doubled those of a year ago
Microsoft won't dance with Samba
News Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence - imposed on it by the EU - will shut the door on open source software such as Samba, say critics
Tasin worm suspect arrested
News Brief: Police in Spain have arrested a man who they believe may have written the Tasin worm
Gongs for geeks
Leader Does Tim Berners-Lee's Best Briton 2004 award signify a shift in the UK's attitudes towards the technically gifted?
IBM looking for hosted package partners
Analysis Big Blue is looking into creating a package of hosted applications in an effort to raise the profile of the software-as-a-service concept
NetWare users eager for Open Enterprise Server
News Novell customers say they are keen to use OES to satisfy demand for Linux
Google grabs more Firefox talent
News Another Firefox programmer has announced he is in the employ of Google, fuelling rumours about the search giant's browser plans
Web inventor 'Briton of the year'
News Despite strong competition from Kelly Holmes and Sir Norman Foster, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been named as Briton of the year for 2004
BenQ FP2091
Review It may not be cheap, but the 20in. BenQ FP209 performs well and displays both video and computer signals. If you can afford it, you won't be disappointed.
O2 sorts out high-speed wireless
News mmO2 is attempting to get its house in order when it comes to high-speed wireless technologies
OSDL enters world of clusters
News Brief: The industry-backed Linux consortium has launched a project aimed at helping Linux clustering efforts and reducing redundancy in the kernel
New varieties of Bagle should be toast
News The latest versions of the mass-mailing bagle worm are spreading fast but should, experts suggest, be contained with ease
