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Archive - 31 Jan 2005

Apple updates PowerBooks

News There's still no sign of the long-awaited PowerBook G5, but Apple fans can console themselves with the G4's new features

Linux is mission critical for Czechs

News The Czech postal service is putting its faith in open source, by migrating a vital application onto SuSE Linux

Silence is golden, for some

Feature The quiet computing movement is gaining ground and has its share of evangelists, but don't expect the major players to sit up and take notice any time soon

Towards a Semantic Web

Feature The Web is facing up to its most significant change since its inception, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee is once again at the forefront of the change

Beware your 'evil twin'

Tech Guide Somebody could be reading your email and sniffing your passwords when you're online at a Wi-Fi hot spot. Here's how to protect yourself.

Juniper routers exposed to attack

News IT managers using Juniper's M- and T-series kit should act fast before they fall victim to a flaw in the router operating system

Taxing time for self-assessment

Leader E-government services such as the Inland Revenue's self-assessment system need to be designed to serve the people - not bully them.

Firefox 1.1 delayed

News The launch of the next version of Firefox has slipped three months, but allegations that Google is the root cause have been dismissed as 'wacky speculation'

Web problems make tax taxing

News Taxpayers experienced big problems when trying to file their returns online last weekend, but this won't be accepted as an excuse for missing Monday's deadline

Blair's 'instability' is really Gates' 'aggression'

News Scribbles that were thought to be the work of Tony Blair have now been attributed to the chairman of Microsoft, a fact that somehow escaped graphological analysts

Lexmark T430: a first look

Preview Lexmark's T430 promises high-speed laser printing and business expandability in a compact package.

Capital One takes online banking offline

News Capital One removed online access to many of its customers' accounts for much of last week, but the service now seems to be operating normally

MSBlast writer thrown in slammer

News The American teenager who confessed to writing MSBlast.B has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and 10 months of community service - far short of the maximum sentence of 10 years the crimes carried

SP2's data execution protection cracked

News A Russian security firm has published a paper detailing a major security flaw in Microsoft Service Pack Two for Windows XP, over a month after alerting Redmond to the flaw

MySQL worm stopped

News Access to the servers controlling the spread of the MySpooler worm was cut off over the weekend, effectively stopping the spread of the bot software

Netgear WG111 wireless USB adapter

Review The Netgear WG111 is one of the best all-around wireless USB adapters we've seen.

Microsoft's anti-piracy plan condemned

News Microsoft's plan to deny patches to pirates will increase security threats, according to Gartner