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RSS smellGet ready to rent your digital music
News While renting entertainment is more often associated with going down to the video shop, if online song sellers have their way, we could all be paying to rent our digital music - and 'give it back' when we get bored of the service. [02 Dec 2004]
Cambridge start-ups prove UK's got innovation
News A button-sized sensor with a sense of smell, an 'iPod for movies', software that lets you type with your breath. They've used nanotechnology to create mini sensors that can 'smell' chemicals and could be... [18 Nov 2004]
Fly-eating robot smells of sewage
News The current version of the robot is fed manually with flies by its creators but the scientists are hoping the next version of the EcoBot will be able to attract them itself - by pumping out the smell of human excrement... [09 Sep 2004]
Can you "phish" out fraudulent emails?
News So you think you can smell a "phish" a mile off? Over the last 12 months, the phishing phenomenon has taken America by storm. A report published in May 2004 concluded that a staggering 57 million consumers in the US had... [03 Aug 2004]
Leader: Crossed lines on call centre debate
Leader Enough UK firms have grown suitably concerned about the consumer backlash against offshoring that plans to move overseas have been dropped like a bad smell. The general level of call centre care in the UK has been poor... [21 Jun 2004]
Leader: Linux "jihad"? Less hysteria please...
Leader If anything, Microsoft's behaviour at the road show reveals that the company feels threatened by the penguin party - and business can smell fear from a mile away. Microsoft has bent over backwards to present itself as... [11 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.06.04
Round-Up "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go. The Round-Up loves the Quixotic spirit, misguided romantic idealism, elderly knights tilting at windmills... [04 Jun 2004]
CIO Jury: Offshoring gets thumbs down as hype faces "readjustment"
News Any company jumping offshore, without looking first, just to keep up with the latest fad, or because the FD thinks that he can smell a big cost saving, will end up having to recover from a shambles. The move towards... [15 Jan 2004]
ID theft: Who's getting hold of your personal data?
Comment The fact is that would-be fraudsters don't even have to know how to turn on a computer - they just need a strong stomach or a poor sense of smell. Will Sturgeon asks whether we should be paying more attention to the... [16 Dec 2003]
Microsoft wins Scandinavian Lindows block
News A Swedish court has temporarily blocked the distribution of Lindows software in the country, pending a ruling on Microsoft's claim that the company's name violates its Windows trademark. Magistrate Ulrika Carlehall of Stockholm City... [12 Dec 2003]
5 years ago... Small UK firms urged to go back to nature
News And where there are clusters of businesses with broadband-enabled facilities we can imagine the air really does smell fresher for more than one reason. 04.09.03 Small UK multimedia companies are being encouraged to head... [04 Sep 2003]
"AOL" to be dropped like a bad smell?
News AOL Time Warner is considering dropping the "AOL" moniker from its corporate name, the company confirmed Monday. Members of AOL Time Warner's board of directors may consider the issue when they meet in September. [12 Aug 2003]
What to look for in an outsourcing contract
Comment Are you OK with your SLA? When it comes to outsourcing, there aren't many rockier foundations than a badly drawn up contract. Ben King speaks to a couple of experts about getting them right… An outsourcing deal is meant to simplify your IT. [22 Apr 2003]
Klez: The bad smell hanging round IT departments
Comment Giving voice to the feelings of any right-minded security expert, Graham Cluley of Sophos said: "Klez continues to hang around like a bad smell - those hit by it couldn't have updated their anti-virus protection in more... [31 Mar 2003]
Virus Top 10: Make sure you're protected against the latest threats
News Klez continues to hang around like a bad smell - those hit by it couldn't have updated their anti-virus protection in more than a year," Cluley added. Klez has maintained the status quo in the virus world by remaining at... [31 Mar 2003]
