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News schmooze: May Day hack attack falls flat
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent review of the week's news. But the Schmooze does find this apathy a bit strange, given that nearly half of mobile phone users say they'd give up their home phone before their mobile.
[May 4, 2001, 12:51]
News Schmooze: Linux unites, partly
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Go to the ZDNet news forum. That, at least, is the theory behind UnitedLinux. This will see Caldera, SuSE, TurboLinux and Conectiva give up their own customised server versions of...
[May 31, 2002, 12:37]
News Schmooze: The robo-onslaught begins
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. Forget about corporate wireless smart brain implant terminals, everybody knows what the next big thing in the high...
[November 9, 2001, 17:36]
News Schmooze: Lamp-like iGadget rings in the new year
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. Here it is, 2002, and the Schmoozer was expecting video phones and shuttle tickets to the moon for Christmas.
[January 11, 2002, 16:37]
News Schmooze: Record companies smack Net users
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Go to the ZDNet news forum. The RIAA spokesman gets this week's award for most annoying quote, for his jibe that the association's tactics will "confirm the adage 'you get what...
[July 5, 2002, 11:35]
News Schmooze: Microsoft gets itself off the hook
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. In the same week that Microsoft and the Feds reached what seems to be some sort of deal over Microsoft's illegal...
[November 2, 2001, 16:40]
News Schmooze: No-frills broadband draws ISP ire
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Go to the ZDNet news forum. BT unveiled an overview of its plans for the next three years, saying it would focus on three things: keeping broadband rollout at a snail's pace...
[April 12, 2002, 16:57]
News Schmooze: Bill Gates brings on the lurve machine
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Go to the ZDNet news forum. Declarations of love, proposals of marriage, Dear John letters and of course the odd bit of smut are doubtless all flying through the air around the...
[February 15, 2002, 17:06]
News Schmooze: HP sharpens its blades
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Go to the ZDNet news forum. An exec explains that the "adopt-and-go" policy is Darwinian at heart, with bigger market share ensuring survival while the weaker counterpart vanishes...
[May 10, 2002, 13:23]
News Schmooze: The week it rained executives
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Let's just get the rest of the bad news out of the way: Telewest decided it would be a good idea to cut another 1,500 jobs, while ITV Digital staff all found themselves out of a job.
[May 3, 2002, 16:01]
News Schmooze: Thumbs up to 3G auctions, says NAO
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. In other evil monopoly news, BT Anytime is thinking of changing its name to BT Sometime, after admitting that it wants to get rid of its heavy users and peer-to-peer downloaders...
[October 19, 2001, 17:34]
News Schmooze: Budgeting for e-business
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. In other odd technology news, there's an opportunity to buy a real Apple 1 coming up, albeit for $50,000. Go to the ZDNet news forum.
[April 19, 2002, 17:01]
News Schmooze: Bert really is evil
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. Just when you thought things might be about to settle back to some semblance of normality, you suddenly get this...
[October 12, 2001, 15:26]
News Schmooze: Microsoft wins case, goes back to being evil
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Microsoft did everything it could to prove it was a nice company after all -- Bill Gates adopted a family image, Smart Tags were dropped from Windows XP, and Microsoft even decided...
[June 29, 2001, 16:49]
News Schmooze: Tech economy suffers as Bill Gates heads for fantasyland
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. In case you were under any illusions that the global economy was going to make a Rocky-like comeback in the second...
[July 27, 2001, 17:40]
News Schmooze: Code Red fails to impress jaded users
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. While originally expected to at least shut down the Internet, if not actually obliterate the planet Earth, the Code...
[August 3, 2001, 17:29]
News Schmooze: Hackers, slumps and spies oh my!
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Forget all the clunky surveillance gear spies and private detectives rely on today -- all those long-range microphones, bugs, miniature video cameras and the like will be obsolete...
[July 6, 2001, 17:26]
2001: The News Schmooze in review
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. The UK supposedly got GPRS in 2001, but you'd have been hard-pressed to notice, even if you were one of those...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
News Schmooze: The end of the merger marathon
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. In far more important news, Eidos revealed its latest real-life model for Lara Croft this week, along with a preview of the next game, Dark Angel.
[March 22, 2002, 13:06]
News Schmooze: Gizmos galore at CeBIT
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Go to the ZDNet news forum. Soundbug turns flat surfaces into speakers Sony Ericsson aimed to put everything into the pen, with their fabulous emailing device, while Invair got...
[March 15, 2002, 16:41]
