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Archive - 31 Jan 2002

Adaptec USBControl

Review A useful tool that helps you set up USB 2.0 devices.

Lost property costs Cabinet Office £100,000

News The cost of electrical items stolen from Downing Street has more than doubled while Labour has been in office, Conservatives argue

Mobile phone rings voted the top workplace annoyance

News A survey of irritating workplace habits puts annoying rings as the most serious offence.

LinuxWorld: Big Blue evangelises Linux

News IBM is displaying its Linux customers at the LinuxWorld Expo to show the real-world potential of the operating system

Business intelligence is failing firms

News User firms are taking a year out from buying business intelligence products as they clear up the mess they have built up over the past few years, says Gartner Group

Microsoft plans to take BI to the masses

News Business intelligence should be used by the whole company, not just the top two percent of managers, says Microsoft

Time's Tiny takeover signals high street battle

News Analysts foresee a head-to-head battle with PC World as Time tries to become the leading high street technology retailer under The Computer World brand

One man Linux band aims to write 500,000 lines of code

News An Australian developer working on the GNU/Linux version of .Net is looking for new 'code demons' to help develop Portable.NET

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Thursday 17/01/2002 You may remember from a couple of weeks back that Jez San (not Sans, as somehow appeared), owner and operator of the Argonaut empire, copped an OBE in the New Years Honours....

Truste seeks to stem flood of spam

News Research indicates that within a few years inboxes will be hit with over 1,000 spam emails a day, but a new service aims to help filter it out

Ford loses hyperlink battle

News The carmaker has lost its battle to stop the owner of an offensive domain name linking to its site

Nuclear lab bans wireless networks

News The potential security threat of wireless networks was enough to make one nuclear laboratory take them offline

LinuxWorld: Telecoms connect to server Linux group

News Several telecommunications companies have joined the Open Source Development Lab

Business should 'use privacy laws, not abuse them'

News The information commissioner is trying to allay business fears about using customer data. Do it - but do it within the law, says Elizabeth France

Businesses told to gang up for broadband

News Wireless high-speed telco promises to roll out its network to any area where one hundred small businesses are prepared to sign up

Kodak snaps under customer pressure

News Kodak has capitulated over a mistake that saw it offer a £329 digital camera online for £100. Lawyers say the company would have lost the pending legal action

Intel's dilemma with the truth

Comment Intel's hyper-threading chip technology will speed servers, but will ordinary PC users miss out?

Spyware company goes undercover

News A controversial spyware developer has disappeared from the Internet after concerns were raised about the methods it used to acquire sensitive information

AOL shuts out users in IM battle

News America Online is blocking people using Trillian software from linking to its AOL Instant Messenger system. It's the latest move in a tug-of-war between the Web giant and the start-up

Microsoft bundles bug-fixes for Windows 2000

News The software company releases a collection of all security fixes for Windows 2000 issued since May. Is Microsoft keeping its promise to knuckle down on security?

Alpha chip to live on in Itanium

News Intel is readying two new versions of its Itanium chip - code-named Montecito and Chivano - that will incorporate concepts from Compaq's Alpha processor

AMD ratchets up mobile chip speeds

News AMD's latest mobile Duron chips clock in at 1.1GHz and 1.2GHz, keeping the speed race very much alive

Five years ago: MicroTouch puts finger on touch-screen demand

News US-based touchscreen expert MicroTouch this week aimed to widen the adoption of the technology with a range of devices including a 14.5-inch LCD

Eizo FlexScan L685

Review One of the best flat-screen monitors available -- perfect for the business professional who needs a space-efficient, large-screen display.