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Blog Thursday 30/08/2001 From Rio de Janeiro to Florence, China to France, a new mood is in the air. Legislation is turning up that's forcing state and local governments to use open-source software...
Intel to double graphics performance
News The chip maker is planning a new integrated graphics core for later this year, replacing ageing technology
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Here's my roundup of this week's news...
Intel, AMD call truce on 'bus war'
News The chip giants are supporting two standards that could lead to a war over your computer's nervous system. But now diplomacy is coming into play
Programmer hacks Microsoft e-book code
News A programmer in the US claims to have written a program that cracks the encryption that stops people sharing e-books created with Microsoft Reader
AOL faces hate speech lawsuit
News A US citizen is claiming that the ISP has allowed racist views to be expressed in its chatrooms, but AOL denies the charge
Turbolinux emphasises non-Linux products
News New PowerCockpit product will run on any version of Linux, not just Turbolinux's own versions
EU probe
Comment The EU has today expanded its enquiry into whether Microsoft's behaviour is unfair to consumers -- but will the software giant care? Guy Kewney doesn't think so.
Acer undercuts chipset rivals
News Acer ships low-cost Pentium 4 chipset, enabling cheaper PC systems when it ships in volume this October
Strike threat to BT Wireless sell-off
News Unions talk about staging a walkout at BT, but the telco giant isn't taking the idea very seriously
Universal broadband? Watch the skies
Comment Could the divide between Internet haves and have-nots be the class divide of the 21st century? Possibly - but high-speed access doesn't necessarily come to those with money and a country home....
Java struggle
Comment It looks like the latest version of Java has missed the Windows XP boat. Guy Kewney takes a look at why it is that Microsoft and Sun just can't get along.
Seasons change for Apple
Comment One anniversary that's slipped quietly by recently is the 25th anniversary of the Apple II, the first true personal computer. But how can Apple succeed in the future? Rupert Goodwins makes some...
Seven questions for Microsoft, and one for yourself
Comment Windows Product Activation in XP can shut down your computer if it thinks you've changed too much. Rupert Goodwins raises some questions that every IT user should ponder the answers to.
Letsbuyit.com shuts up shop in the UK
News Struggling e-commerce site lets almost half its employees go along with what it had seen as one of its key markets
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News As a Russian programmer faces 25 years in jail, his supporters become more vocal on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Buyers lured to fake FedEx site
News Auction buyer almost duped into making payment to fake online Federal Express Web site
New Pentium 4-Rambus chipset on way
News Prices could drop as an Intel competitor prepares to launch its own Pentium 4 chipset that will support RDRAM memory
Sun shows new version of StarOffice
News Version 6 of the free office suite is due to ship in Beta this October, and promises big improvements on version 5.2
AMD quits the megahertz race
News What's in a name? AMD plans to drop the megahertz from its Athlon marketing, in a bid to sway PC buyers away from making decisions based on clock speed
Sega aims its games at PDAs
News Sega games to be available on mobile phones and PDAs
Microsoft blinded by HailStorm
News Top exec Allchin talks about challenges and concerns over the software giant's latest gambit
The Emperor's new threads
Comment Ideas are a wonderful thing - even if they're totally impractical. Intel has been touting some new inventions at its Developer Forum this week, so Rupert Goodwins took a close look at what's on offer.
Sound cards...
Comment Sound is vital to PC gamers -- Guy Kewney tries out the latest offering from Creative Labs to see if it really has taken sound to a new dimension.
XP launch
Comment Microsoft is making a song and dance about shipping Windows XP to PC manufacturers. But does anyone actually care?
Intel centres
Comment How can a 'solutions centre', which add to the sum total of knowledge about IT and do great things for their customers, be a bad thing? When it's run by a monopoly...
