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Blog Friday 29/7/2005 "If I were 30 again, I’d be working on interplanetary stuff" — so quotes Vint Cerf, one of the godfathers of the Internet as reported on our sister site silicon.com. As it...
Onetel picks Easynet for faster broadband
News With 24Mbps broadband on the horizon, Onetel has plumped for Easynet's unbundled services
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Sex, space and Japanese economics lock horns with tiny tellies in batchelor pads and yer actual gold-plated scoop
iDefense launches format testing kit
News A set of open source tools for finding file-format bugs that could be exploited by hackers attacking Windows and Linux systems have been launched by the security firm
XP Starter Edition sales figures released
News Microsoft says it has sold 100,000 copies of the widely criticised feature-restricted OS
The four things your backup strategy is missing
Help/HowTo Backup should be about how to create the right systems to allow you to discover problems when they occur
WiMax take-up takes off
News Brief: WiMax use will increase by 1000 percent this year and will start to make its way onto portable devices from 2007, according to analysts
Time crisis: Ex-employee sets up support site
News Customers and former workers of Time and Tiny now have a site that could help them cope with problems caused by the downfall of Granville Technology
Only a long view sees much in Vista
Leader Vista has a central place in Microsoft's plans for the future. It's not so clear it will have the same importance elsewhere
Amazon Web services marketplace patent published
News Builder: A patent application from the e-tailing giant details a marketplace for the trading and rating of Web services
PDA shipment figures slump again
News With smartphones running rampant, could GPS prove to be the saviour of the PDA?
Jobs still in the balance for Sybari staff
News It's been a month since Microsoft bought Sybari and the security firm's staff still don't know if they can keep their jobs
Sophos admits antivirus flaw
News All versions of Sophos Anti-Virus are affected, and patches for some versions won't be available for up two weeks
Encryption pioneer expands on VoIP plans
News More details on the technology behind and planned availability of the Internet telephony project from the creator of PGP have emerged
Symantec to speed up product rollout
News Growing pressure from rivals like Microsoft means Symantec must ship new products once they're ready, rather than bundling them into annual updates
Microsoft scores small win in Google battle
News A temporary restraining order has been issued against Kai-Fu Lee, the ex-Microsoft employee who joined Google this month
Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
News Michael Lynn, who gave a presentation on ways to exploit vulnerabilities in Cisco routers, has agreed not to discuss the matter in public again
