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Blog Friday 28/05/2004The Shadow Minister For Economic Affairs: a title straight out of Yes, Minister? No - he really exists, if the bouffant Michael Fabricant can be said to be more a real being than a...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment The spamtastic BSA, overheated Danes, tough-speaking Tories and transcendental instant messages: the week that shouldn't have been
Oracle exec takes the reins at Eclipse
News Mike Milinkovich is to become the executive director of the open-source group
Spam surge 'turning Britain into e-pariah'
News Criticism of the UK's spam laws is growing nearly as quickly as the problem of junk mail itself
Y2K legacy creates PC-disposal headache
Analysis Y2K fears drove a generation of companies to upgrade their PCs. Four years on, those systems need to be replaced - but such a mammoth upgrade has serious environmental implications
Acer TravelMate 8006LMi
Review Building on an already-successful design, the Dothan-based TravelMate 8006LMi delivers an impressive combination of features, performance and battery life. This is an excellent high-end choice for...
Linux biggest gainer in relational database market
News The fastest growing platform for relational databases last year was Linux, while Unix recorded the biggest fall
Vendors get bombastic as customers get wary
Comment SAP and PeopleSoft are trading blows - but the issue for enterprises is which vendors can provide the most reliable, cost-effective solutions
Incoming Dell chief reaps £20m of options
News Kevin Rollins has exercised stock options that far exceeded his salary and bonus during Dell's most recent financial year
Cable & Wireless surges back into broadband unbundling
News By snapping up Bulldog, Cable & Wireless is taking aim at BT's wholesale broadband market. Innovative high-speed services for businesses could follow
Peeping Taiwanese Trojan author is arrested
News A Taiwanese man has been arrested after admitting to authoring the Peep Trojan horse
Search engines make some noise
Feature The hunt for online audio content is slowly becoming easier
Defra picks IBM for modernisation
News The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has chosen Big Blue to manage its desktop infrastructure and develop new systems
EC examines e-money regulation
Analysis Compliance with the EC's strict e-money regime could make much existing and planned m-commerce projects unviable
Banks and insurance firms facing flood of cyberattacks
News More than 80 percent of global financial institutions have had their systems compromised during the past year, according to a survey
SCO fights back against 'don't pay' advice
News Open Source Industry Australia's recommendation that firms don't buy SCO licences is 'free advice that's worth the price', says the embattled Unix vendor
Grim times for hard drives
News Cutthroat pricing and poor profits are hurting the hard-drive industry, says a report
Flat panel shortage tipped
News Worldwide demand for flat-panel displays will surge ahead of supply by the end of this year, according to a new study
Macromedia tests Flash update
News A beta version, code-named Ellipsis, is being tested at the moment and is due for launch later this summer
AOL plays down new Netscape
News America Online will launch a new version of the Netscape browser shortly but says it is 'not a huge step forward'
Trillian Pro 2.012
Review Consolidate all of your instant messaging contacts into Trillian Pro 2.012. Perfect for students and office workers alike.
'Proof of concept' emerges for 64-bit virus
News Symantec says it has found the first known threat to 64-bit Windows systems
Planet-Tolkien runs rings around Gmail
News A British site focused on Lord of the Rings is the latest to offer 1 gigabyte of online email storage, though not for free
