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Blog Friday 30/9/2005 Look away, Fun Police, it's iPod nano time again. You may be aware that there's been a fuss lately about screen problems with this tiny yet desirable device: some fail...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Awards, a stark warning for O2 and a lesson to be learnt by all you budding Web developers feature this week
Windows XP to get another upgrade
News Service Pack 3 will arrive after Vista is released, according to Microsoft France
Lib Dems tackle IR35 in tax review
News IR35 is an excellent example of how government attempts to fix tax loopholes can have unintended consequences, say the Lib Dems in their consultation policy. Contractors have one month to tell the...
Defend your network against idle scanning
Help/HowTo Employing intrusion detections is all well and good, but unless you follow these simple steps you may as well not bother
Esquire tests wiki ethos
Feature An article on the online encyclopaedia turned into an experiment in collaborative journalism
10 ways to wireless security
Help/HowTo Follow these 10 tips to keep undesirables off your wireless network
A bit more competition and we could really fly
Leader Now that Google and Microsoft have neatly positioned themselves as competitors and Google has NASA on board, it's up to Microsoft to make the next logical - and giant - leap.
170Mbps through an electrical socket demoed
News Matsushita showed off an exceptionally high-speed Internet through an ordinary electrical socket at a Japanese trade fair
Joy hails Web as platform for the future
News Sun's cofounder thinks Google could supplant Microsoft, 'with the Web as a platform'
Tata expands research efforts
News The Indian firm's fourth lab will concentrate on grids, SOAs and collaborative development
Motorola: Apple-made phone 'inevitable'
News The chief executive of Motorola has resigned himself to squaring up to Apple in the phone market
Intellisync launches unified messaging service
News While Microsoft captured the headlines this week with its deal with Palm, incumbents like Intellisync hope to stay a step ahead
Intel bangs the drum for Active Management
News Intel claims its Active Management technology is a panacea for those managing mobile workers
OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'
News The data format standard has the potential to transform the world just as the Web did, according to a senior Sun executive
i-mode finally connects with the UK
Analysis O2 has launched the mobile internet service after signing an agreement with NTT DoCoMo
Waiting in vain for the paperless office
Feature Doing away with paper records is a nice idea but the reality is a long time coming. What are the best ways to cope in the meantime?
Yahoo accused of poaching speech engineers
News A speech technology company claims Yahoo gutted its R&D division, and the US courts believe it has a good case
Apple confounds analysts with mini 'upgrade'
News Some Mac minis sold in the near future will have higher than-advertised specs, but no-one's sure why
Ballmer to meet EC
News Brief: The head of the EC's antitrust case is to meet with the software giant's chief executive next week
Microsoft loses Eolas patent ruling
News Microsoft is disappointed that a key patent owned by the University of California and Eolas has been ruled to be valid
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
Review It's not perfect, but Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 makes pen-based computing feasible for the average worker.
