Previous DayGates patents e-picture hanging
News For a man with a 65,000 square foot house, picture hanging could be a hassle. So Bill Gates has patented a method for doing it electronically - and it has applications beyond his abode
2004: The year of controlled spending?
Feature Companies are predicting bigger IT budgets this year - but how much bigger and what technologies and trends will drive tech investment during the next 12 months?
Scams snare more Web victims
Comment The gullible and the inexperienced fell victim to an increasingly sophisticated array of tricks in 2003
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News It's official: the Internet is now part of the establishment, as Tim Berners-Lee - the man who combined HTML with URLs and came up with the Web - gets a gong in the New Year honours
Semiconductors set for healthy 2004
News Mobile-phone and PC shipments will drive strong growth in the semiconductor market next year, according to IDC
Sun kills Cobalt
News Sun has relegated the last of its Cobalt servers to the 'end-of-life' section. It's the end of the brand for which Sun paid £1.2bn - but not of the server appliance market, which Cobalt virtually...
Analysts split on cut-price iPod
News Apple is reportedly mulling the release of a $100 digital music player, though some analysts speculate such a move could jeopardise the iPod's market dominance
FedEx looks to electronic deliveries
News Buying business services company Kinko will help FedEx's move into the electronic delivery of documents, the company says
HP experiments with notebook insurance
News The PC giant is offering notebook owners in Singapore insurance that guards against theft and accidental damage
Oracle cuts kitty for PeopleSoft purchase
News Oracle says it has so much cash that it does not need to maintain the $5bn credit line arranged when its hostile bid was announced
FBI scrutinises e-voting hack
News A US e-voting software firm has revealed its network was breached in October
