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Blog Friday 28/09/2001 And to close, a public service announcement. Have you ever been looking at Acrobat PDF files online, only to have the reader refuse to load and your browser lock up? I have, and...
BTopenworld attacked for terminating Anytime accounts
News BT cuts off customers who it has accused of leaving their connections "unattended" for long periods of time
Palm OS gets Midway games, discounts
News US company Midway releases five arcade games for the Palm platform, and Palm OS hardware is set to drop in price
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment In this week's roundup, Rupert travels to the wilds of Cornwall and Central London to find out what HP is up to, checks out the latest Michael Jackson single and discovers what 'John Wayne paper' is.
Palm pours cold water on fan-site row
News Handheld maker hopes to cool off arguments over its trademark enforcement policies, but doesn't look like it will change its stance
Indie bands sign up for legal MP3 sharing
News With a promised launch date of 4 October, there's no news of which - if any - major record labels will make deals with Wippit, the UK's legitimate answer to Napster
Windows XP for devices coming in November
News Windows XP Embedded will arrive a month after the retail XP launch
Home Office backs seven-year data retention laws
News The government appears to have abandoned its opposition to calls for communications data to be held for up to seven years
Global satellite broadband network on track for 2004
News Inmarsat signs up Logica to develop software for its forthcoming high-speed mobile network
New CDs designed to end 'ripping'
News The record industry's plans to make CDs copy-proof are angering consumers and prompting lawsuits
Compaq brushes up iPaq
News New iPaq model will give users instant expandability, including much better integration with Bluetooth devices
Management tool keeps Linux systems in tune
News Aduva's system will help manage Linux systems by providing a knowledge base about which components are best together
VeriSign poised to win Net ID struggle
News While Sun and Microsoft are waging a bitter battle over online identification services, the only sure winner is VeriSign whose technology plays on both sides of the fence
Government snooping will hurt e-commerce
News Users will buy less online if they think Big Brother is watching, say human rights activists
Linux becomes a contender vs. Unix
News An operating-system study finds that four Linux products perform better than a version of Unix, bringing the open-source OS clone into the same league as its model
Nimda set for a return
News Researchers may have found a 'cyber-time bomb' in the code for the Nimda worm that will reactivate it exactly 10 days after its first occurrence
Yahoo! to unveil Webcasting services
News Online functions will allow businesses to communicate and run events on the Internet
