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Blog Friday 28/10/2005 I've been playing with SkypeIn, which I've been meaning to do for ages. I was finally provoked into laying down my ten euros by reading the small print on my T-Mobile...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Norman Stanley Fletcher's guide to IT employment, Linux 'not ready for grandmothers' shock, and the little chip company that might
Sex.com conman caught after five years flight
News Long-running domain name fraudster gets collared in Tijuana
Sun wants to put RFID everywhere
News Sun is trialling pervasive radio-frequency identification technology that could allow a company to track all its assets
Wikipedia
Review Wikipedia offers rich and frequently updated information, but you might need to verify some of its facts.
Sainsbury's scraps outsourcing deal early
News Ten-year outsourcing contract with Accenture is finishing three years early
A new approach to cybercrime
Leader In the war between law and cybercrime only one side has efficient, working IT. The criminals need bringing down to our level
Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News The government has been charging up to £150,000 to companies who joined its Internet safety initiative in return for marketing opportunities
Microsoft stakes application future on integration
News Microsoft says its ability to integrate its ERP and CRM applications with its other software products will be crucial to its performance in the applications market. Predictably, Salesforce.com...
Cybercrime laws aren't working, says minister
News Jim Murphy, e-government minister, has admitted that cybercrime laws are failing, but says the IT industry hasn't communicated its concerns
Google flight takes off
News Flight details are the latest example of Google's mission to bring together disparate sources of information
Visual Studio 2005 ships on limited release
News Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 database and Visual Studio 2005 tools are now shipping to MSDN subscribers ahead of general availability next month
RIM coughs up for JPEG patent
News Forgent, the company that several years found itself in possession of the infamous '672 JPEG patent, has signed up another licensee
Intel ships dual-core Presler
News Presler marks the beginning of Intel's transition to the 65nm process, leading the way for more power-efficient dual-core processors and, shortly, the dual-core Yonah notebok chip
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News Now that full complement of 12,544 Power5 processors have been installed, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer has hit 260 teraflops
More flaws found in Oracle security
News Security experts warn that a malicious hacker could expoit weaknesses in the way Oracle handles password protection
