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RSS notesSilence is broken: Google Talk launches
News The launch comes one day after Google rolled out a beta version of its free desktop software, Desktop 2, that includes a personalised toolbar dubbed "Sidebar" for accessing email, stock quotes and news, as well as a scratch pad for taking notes... [24 Aug 2005]
What if... we started spending again on IT?
Comment So, after comparing notes with a friend on how difficult life had become over a beer one evening, he decided to drop out for a while and take it easy at the beach until the market bounced back. There was a time when users couldn't get enough IT. [04 Sep 2002]
Gates pens disruptive memo
News Ozzie notes areas that Microsoft could have led, such as web-based applications, but where other companies are instead more heavily focused. Aiming to stir up the same kind of momentum as his Internet Tidal Wave memo of a decade earlier, Microsoft... [09 Nov 2005]
AXA cuts out the paper chase
Case Study Often there are physical documents that have to be sent across such as medical notes, and not all hospitals are able to send these electronically so fax is still an important tool. AXA Assistance is using a fax-to-email service to process the... [18 Oct 2006]
Windows Firewall flaw causes port hazard
News PC users can view all firewall exceptions - including those that the unpatched Windows Firewall doesn't see - through other tools, Microsoft notes. A flaw in Windows Firewall may prevent users from seeing all the open network ports on a Windows XP... [02 Sep 2005]
IBM issues 'Big Number' phone warning
News Goldmine, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as products from Informix, Oracle and Sybase. IBM has warned UK relational database users to take action now to avoid being plagued by problems related to... [03 Apr 2000]
The Best of 'Reader Comments': Smartcards, e-marketplaces and Apple
Comment The main problem in the user community is unfamiliarity (a problem most are familiar with when handling foreign notes and coins when abroad). Smartcards, stupid idea? Following a story about future smartcard charges, followed up on last week's... [06 Oct 2000]
10 points on Microsoft's 2005 'to do' list
News On the day that the software company received no slack from a European court, Directions on Microsoft's last point notes: "Microsoft needs cautious, clearly written and tightly enforced rules of engagement for employees working with customers... [22 Dec 2004]
Responding to the Nimda Worm: Recommendations for Addressing Blended Threats
White Paper The firm notes that 65% (1.43 million) of the worm’s targets during its initial attack were servers and the remaining 35% (770,000) were PCs. The Nimda worm is the latest example of how the Old World strategy of “one threat, one cure” has become... [24 Feb 2004]
Australian ISP still battling US copyright claim
News Outlining the steps MediaForce takes in deploying its flagship MediaSentry web search product, it notes that "in the event in which a service provider fails to act in a timely fashion, a team of in-house copyright law experts swiftly escalates the... [05 Feb 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.01.06
Round-Up Speaking also as somebody who regularly puts jeans in the washing machine containing wallets, bank notes, keys and all manner of items in the pockets, this sounds like a very expensive mistake waiting to happen for the Round-Up unless it coincides... [13 Jan 2006]
HP takes aim at Action Man with portable
News Because it's a tablet PC, it will also allow people to use a pen to annotate documents or take notes and convert them to text. HP's new machines - the nr3600 notebook and tr3000 tablet - meet a US military requirement to survive a three-foot drop... [19 Mar 2004]
Lindows to float
News The S-1 filing also notes that in a recent report, an independent auditor hired by Lindows expressed doubts about the company's viability, concluding that "our historical losses and negative cash flows from operations raise substantial doubt about... [21 Apr 2004]
Euro launches smoothly but IT departments remain on standby
News Citibank - along with some other large international banks - announced it completed its conversion programme several hours ahead of schedule, and is now looking forward to 2002, when euro notes and coins will be introduced. [04 Jan 1999]
Not yet 3G but Nokia comes back with sexy devices
News Nokia notes around 60 operators are now building out Edge technology - sometimes referred to as 2.75G as it sits between 2.5G GPRS and full 3G - though how or even if it is used alongside the W-CDMA flavour of 3G favoured by most is yet to be known. [28 Oct 2003]
