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Friday 18 May 2001

Virus writer hoisted by his own petard

Disaffected teenage virus writer does little to dispel the myth that all virus writers are disaffected teenagers...

Licence to Bill: Should you fear Windows XP?

Last week we began to learn details of the way Microsoft will allow retail copies of its upcoming XP operating system to be installed and used. As a result, the company yet again finds itself answering difficult questions. What's all the fuss about? Sonya Rabbitte explains...

GPRS: Next generation phones hit shops

British consumers today get the first chance to buy mobile phones which incorporate the latest mobile data technology, GPRS.

Dot-info domain name prepares for debut

Icann has finalised contracts with domain registrar Afilias for the allocation of the top-level domain name dot-info.

John Lamb's Week: homes and databases of the future

This time of year is a peak period for business activity with a marked upswing in the number of launches, reorganisations and conferences. At the time of writing speculation is running rife about a new name for the demerged help desk business of UK-based royalblue group.

3G brouhaha: UMTS giants threaten conference walkout

The world's major telecoms infrastructure players are on the verge of pulling out of Europe's largest 3G show en masse after a bitter row with the organisers over money.

Lernout & Hauspie request Nasdaq delisting

Embattled and scandal-ridden speech recognition firm Lernout & Hauspie has been delisted by Nasdaq Europe at its own request.

Anite shares surge following merger talks

Shares in the IT services specialist Anite have surged following news it is in discussions with a "potential merger partner".

Mice to see you, to see you mice

A biometric mouse that allows up to 1,100 different users to log on to a PC using nothing more than a fingerprint is set to go on sale in the UK.

A Manx tale

Rather like the cats which hail from the same place, the tale of Manx Telecom's 3G roll-out hasn't ended quite how you'd have expected.

beenz loses headz

Troubled online loyalty scheme beenz.com has lost its founder and chief executive as well as its president and chief operating officer.

Quotes of the week

In this new, exciting feature which will appear on silicon.com every Friday, we challenge you to test your wit against the sublime - if not ridiculous - quotations this industry's leading luminaries fling in our general direction.

'Use porn not drugs': Mixed-messages from Tayside police

Tayside police have been left red-faced following a mix-up between an anti-drugs campaign aimed at young people and a pornographic website.

Reuters subsidiary sets stock turning with successful IPO

Reuters is to get $464m by selling just 14 per cent of its online exchange Instinet, valuing the subsidiary at around $3.5bn.

Intel opens up about forthcoming Itanium family

Intel has revealed more details about its upcoming releases, the Itanium family and the 870 chipset.

Linux community says 'Cheese', but are they smiling?

A security-conscious worm that patches weaknesses on Linux servers and even closes the door behind it when it leaves has been spotted in the wild going by the name 'Cheese worm'.

B2B to defy misplaced pessimism

Online B2B trade will reach over £1.9tr across Europe by 2004, according to the latest survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Gerstner preps successor

IBM's saviour, chairman and CEO, Lou Gerstner, has confirmed for the first time that he expects Sam Palmisano, IBM president and COO, to succeed him.

Found: The man whose email conquered America

While the US waited to find out who would be next in the White House, an email swept across the Atlantic and got a few Americans a little hot under the collar.

Prescott's Punch: The IT angle (sort of...)

In the aftermath of John Prescott's infamous left jab, we at silicon.com have been busily employed trying to find an excuse to write about it.

Commerce One cutbacks send staff packing

Commerce One is axing 10 per cent of its staff in an attempt to achieve its goal of profitability by the fourth quarter.

Avaya chief savages Lucent

Network Communications provider Avaya has slammed former parent company Lucent for washing it hands of the troubled division during its restructuring last year.

All quiet on the European bourses

European bourses opened flat this morning after receiving little direction in a quiet day's trading in the US yesterday.

Linus Torvalds: King of the duck pond

At just 31 years of age the man who created the Linux operating system is regularly the subject of thousands of stories in chatrooms and on websites around the world. But how does the reality compare to the Linus folklore? Fellow Finn Pia Heikkila met the man...

End of the free web? Punters prepared to pay for content

The majority of internet users are prepared to pay for information, such as web searches, news and archived material.


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