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Feature Palm OS 5 is supposed to be ten times faster than current handhelds. But what about the other features? Check our comparison table
Industry lambasts snooping law costs
News The Home Office must say how much it will pay towards the black boxes that ISPs will have to install under the terms of the RIP Act, say ISPs and businesses
UK government launches artificial intelligence drive
News Research project will bring academics and businessmen together to tell the government how it can help Britain develop computers that can think
How to avoid the overwork trap
Comment If you're the type who goes the proverbial extra mile on the job, watch out -- you may quickly end up swamped with work. Here's how to get the recognition or extra pay you deserve for pulling extra...
Fossil unearths wrist PDA
News The watch maker takes handheld computing into the realm of fashion with a new Palm-compatible device
Muppet makers choose Linux
News The Linux operating system has taken another step into the world of digital entertainment with the announcement of a deal between Red Hat and Jim Henson's company
Winamp bug opens door to MP3 viruses
News The digital music player contains a vulnerability that could allow hackers to attack a PC via infected MP3 files
Ballmer leads new Microsoft witness list
News In a move that may bring the antitrust trial to an earlier close, Microsoft has decided not to call several of its witnesses
Telewest broadband trial undercuts dial-up
News In an effort to boost take-up of its cable broadband service Telewest is sweetening its sign-up offer, but there are limits to the sub-£15 a month trial
Ad groups come to terms on Web contracts
News Talks have settled many of the differences over the conditions of advertising agreements, but the thorny question of data collection remains unsolved
Police your network traffic with IPTraf
Feature Commercial network monitors can cost £2000. Here's a free open source alternative
AMD pushes for 64-bit mobile computing
News The chip maker licenses MIPS Technologies' 64-bit architecture, enabling it to design processors for next-generation mobile devices
Brief: HP vote 'neither free nor fair'
News Legal papers from the Hewlett camp say that HP's actions towards Deutsche Bank were tantamount to vote-buying
WorldCom chief quits
News Bernard J. Ebbers will leave the US telecommunications giant amid plummeting fortunes on Wall Street and a regulatory probe, according to reports
IBM expands use of server chip
News Big Blue's iSeries of servers will now be able to use Power4 processors, which perform like two chips rather than one
Political cybersquatting scores a win
News A politician's name is 'not connected with commercial exploitation', rules a domain name arbitrator who finds in favour of a cybersquatter
Dmitry employer on copyright crusade
News The chief exec of ElcomSoft, faced with e-book hacking charges, battles to restore his company's reputation and takes on the DCMA - a law he says makes it 'illegal to produce legal programs.'
Yahoo! launches advice site
News The site updates Yahoo!'s offerings in a market sometimes derided as a modern version of phone sex or psychic help hotlines
Klez worms its way to the top of the virus charts
News Although the latest Klez variants have only been in the wild for a few weeks, they are still spreading at an alarming rate
Five years ago: Adaptec to show Gigabit Ethernet
News The peripheral interconnect specialist will show a prototype of its ANA-69100 Gigabit Ethernet adapter
