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Archive - 31 Jul 2002

JVC Mini Note MP-XP7210

Review Consumer electronics specialist JVC’s first notebook is an impressive Windows XP ultraportable that weighs less than a kilogram and features a 1,024 by 600 display.

Telewest chief in unexpected departure

News Telewest's chief executive has left his post one day before the company's latest financial results are released

RIPA surveillance may break human rights laws

News The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act may break human rights laws by giving law enforcement bodies access to personal data retained for national security purposes

Time travel on your computer

Comment Rupert Goodwins: Familiarity breeds contempt, but the computer on your desk can do much more than you expect. All it takes is a different way of looking at things.

AOL previews version 8.0

News The official release of AOL's latest service will be in the autumn, and the central theme of the update is customisation

BSkyB to sell discounted no-frills broadband

News The satellite broadcaster teams up with BT Retail to offer BT Broadband to its customers on special terms

Camera makers unveil new media format

News Olympus and Fuji have announced a penny-sized storage format for digital cameras, despite some concerns that the market is saturated

ASP.Net - keeping it simple

Feature ASP.Net Web Matrix has the potential to make life easier for programmers and Webmasters in the real world. With a download size of 1.2 megabytes and a zero pricetag, you don't have much to lose

HP threatens researchers with DMCA

News Hewlett-Packard has threatened to sue a group of researchers under the DMCA for publicising a flaw in an HP Unix operating system

Survey reveals IT job dissatisfaction

News A shortage of good jobs in the IT industry has meant that job satisfaction is less prominent in people's minds

Ellison: You can trust Oracle's finances

News In advance of an SEC deadline that requires chief executives to vouch for their company's finances under oath, Larry Ellison has promised that Oracle has nothing to hide

Government must raise the bar in IT project management

Comment Eugene Lacey: The government has an appalling record of mismanagement of major IT projects across more or less all major spending departments. It must drive a harder bargain with vendors

Microsoft releases Windows 2000 fixes

News The latest set of bug fixes for Windows 2000 has been released to premier customers, and will be widely available later in the week

Tech evolution in data storage

Feature In most companies, data storage has long been viewed as a necessary evil. But that thinking is evolving as the type of data stored is changing

Internet privacy: The danger of good intentions

Comment Sumir Meghani: Bills, such as Fritz Hollings' Online Privacy Protection Act, entirely misunderstand why individuals need to be protected from the misuse of personal information.

Dot-com deathwatch site puts memos online

News A Web site best known for chronicling the demise of the dot-com industry publishes internal memos of bad business practices - for a fee

Nvidia warns of revenue slump

News Slow PC sales, Xbox uncertainties and a shift to low-cost desktop processors all contribute to lower quarterly sales

Intel gains market share on AMD's back

News The chip giant gains six percentage points of market share year-on-year, as the focus shifts to low-cost processors

MS unveils new Windows CE .Net

News The update includes new technologies such as IPv6 and broader support for .Net technologies

Making the call for VoIP standards

Feature No killer application has yet been discovered that makes Internet telephony absolutely essential, and the standards leave too many questions unanswered

Customers shun MS licensing plan

News The majority of Microsoft's customers won't be signing up for a controversial licensing plan set to go into effect on Thursday, but this will not necessarily hurt the software giant's revenues

IBM takes over PwC Consulting

News Big Blue offers to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting arm for cash and stock, a deal that expands its already extensive services business

Factiva CEO: Surfers will pay for news

News The chief executive of content-aggregating business Factiva says that Internet users will get used to paying for content in the next couple of years

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