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Blog Monday 25/10/1999 Excited by digital TV yet? I ignored it for a while until I saw a Sky setup at a pal's house: the combination of EPG (electronic programme guide -- sort of super Teletext system)...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News This week: visible digits, archaeological remains, Gordon gets generous (prudently), one of our Sonys is missing, and Mondex gets insecure.
Novell, Sun woo ISPs
News Service providers prodded into selling high-margin services
Who is the open source community?
News Study sheds light on what open source developers are really like, with some surprises
Oftel issues Christmas warning to mobile operators
News Expected 3.5m purchasers need accurate information
Microsoft posts Service Pack 6 for NT 4.0
News NT leaking? Just patch it up again...
Europe threatened by Nasdaq
News Analysts see no European competitor to US tech exchange, on its way soon
Demand pummels Nat'l Geographic
News Net surfers go mad over mapsJust 24 hours after National Geographic.com launched its new "Map Machine" feature, the site is still scrambling to handle the demand.
Jane Wakefield: BT admits it's good to surf
News Pressure causes the telco to buckle
UK a nation of pornographers and spammers
News New Jersey-based ISP blocks all email from Britain
UK WAP travel service goes live
News Digital Mobility builds a consumer portal to WAP services
techTrader: W H Smith hoping everything clicks
News Bookseller to promote e-commerce site with 'clicks and mortar' stores
News Burst: Geldof rules out Deckchair.com flotation
News Rock star and entrepreneur Bob Geldof has ruled out a flotation for his travel-bookings company, deckchair.com (See Internet IPO bubblers ).
Nuggets: Huge Sony party screen for films and games
News For under two grand your living room will be the place to be for this year's Christmas and Millennium parties. Sony makes sure your telly will be bigger than your mate's.
Nuggets: Ricoh zooms ahead with extra nifty features
News Digital snapper has got the works
Half drunk employees more worrying than Y2K
News Alcohol seen as a greater threat than millennium bugs, NOP report indicates
News Burst: UK a nation of pornographers and spammers
News One of the biggest ISP's in the US blocked all incoming email from British companies last week, claiming that we were nothing but a nation of pornographers and spammers.
News Burst: Nerds strive to find world's slowest NT box
News A competition is underway to find the world's slowest NT server.
Intel developing new integrated chip
News "Timna is essentially our first PC on a chip"
