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Comment Charles Cooper: With all due respect to The New York Times and the Harvard Business Review, the prophets of decline are off the mark in recent references to the future of IT
Oasis to create an XML security standard
News Standards body Oasis has formed a technical committee to create a model and data format for describing security problems
GeForce FX catches up to Radeon performance
News The latest update of the GeForce FX adds a significant performance boost, and appears to approach the Radeon 9800, according to ZDNet Labs - though Nvidia has been accused of fiddling the tests
Everest cybercafe opens at 17,400 feet
News Fifty years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing climbed Everest, the world's highest mountain is now home to the world's highest cybercafe
Real undercuts iTunes with 50p Rhapsody
News Real has teamed up with Rhapsody to launch a Windows-based music download and CD-burning service that undercuts Apple's iTunes
Sony soups up PlayStation2
News The consumer electronics giant's next console, the PSX, will add a digital video recorder and other entertainment features to the popular platform's gaming capabilities
Bundled offering twins broadband and storage
News Rather than attempting to keep vital data backed up themselves, companies can outsource the task and fix themselves up with high-speed Internet access at the same time
SCO makes a profit, increases revenue
News SCO announced its first ever profit this week. Earlier, the company said its intellectual property licensing scheme had helped boost its revenue
Learn virus writing skills in Canada
News The University of Calgary will start a virus writing course later this year, which has worried many in the anti-virus community
Memory makers adopt xD for digital pics
News The xD picture card format, which has made good ground since its launch last year, was further boosted this week when memory makers gave the format a thumbs up
Palm sells 5000 Zire handhelds every day
News Handheld maker Palm has sold more than a million Zire devices in just over seven months; that's around 200 every hour or almost 5000 units every day
Juniper routers get anti-DoS protection
News Juniper has finally started including security circuits in its routers, but its competitors have a two year head start
Alternatives to Windows' standard desktop lockdown features
Feature Microsoft says security is a major priority, but Windows really does need some help. Here are some desktop lockdown products to help boost security
ARM to speed smartphone development
News An agreement between chipmaker ARM and Nokia will create a ready-made blueprint for smartphones based on Nokia's Series 60
Spam killers may lock up your email
Comment Declan McCullagh: Here's an unhappy prediction - the explosion of spam-blocking technology could herald the death of much legitimate email
IBM server takes aim at Intel's patch
News IBM has launched a low-end server, which is positioned to ensure that the lower end of the server market is not left to Intel
Linux-based PlayStation grid is no game
News Researchers have made a supercomputer - which is powerful enough to rival the top systems in the world - out of PlayStation 2 components
Office XP price cuts reflect licensing changes
News Microsoft has trimmed prices on its Office suites and individual applications after easing its volume-licensing regime for businesses
SAP signs up with open-source database
News MySQL is comparing the SAP deal, which will ultimately see MySQL replace SAP DB, to IBM's adoption of Linux
Apple unplugs iTunes Internet file-sharing
News An iTunes update removes a feature that allowed some users to swap songs over the Internet, although local-network song streaming remains
Novell challenges SCO's Linux claims
News Update: Novell has told SCO it retains Unix patents and copyrights, which could damage SCO's attempts to gain revenue from its own Unix intellectual property
