April 2001 News
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Altiris acquires Carbon Copy from Compaq
Altiris, which makes software for managing PCs in networks, has purchased the file transfer software product Carbon Copy from...30 Apr 2001
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Anglian Water launches e-billing for corporates
Anglian Water is to offer its 400 largest corporate customers a Web-based processing and payment system.30 Apr 2001
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Nationwide to offer TV Internet banking
Nationwide building society launched its first Internet TV banking service on Monday. The roll-out came hard on the heels of last...30 Apr 2001
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FBI warns of Chinese May Day hack attacks
US authorities have warned network administrators that US Web sites and e-mail servers might come under increased attack from...30 Apr 2001
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Delay in chip-making process could hurt AMD
Although Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) keeps plans to change its chip making methods locked up tight, analysts are warning that...30 Apr 2001
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Sonera is forced to revise connection fees
The Finnish Telecommunications Administration Centre (TAC) has ruled that mobile operator Sonera must reduce the domestic mobile...30 Apr 2001
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May Day is "duvet day" for BT workers
Workers at BT and Dixons are being encouraged to take a "duvet day" or work from home to avoid Tuesday's May Day protests.30 Apr 2001
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Hewlett-Packard pushes independent accreditation for resellers
Hewlett-Packard has been in discussions with the Department for Trade and Industry about introducing an industry standard "kite...30 Apr 2001
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IBM boosts iSeries family with OS upgrade
IBM this week will release a new version of its OS/400 operating system - the V5R1 - which it claims will significantly enhance...30 Apr 2001
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Oracle and Akamai team up on caching initiative
Oracle and Akamai Technologies announced their first technology collaboration on 30 April, a jointly developed markup language...30 Apr 2001
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IT organisations prepare for May Day chaos
Companies, financial organisations and government bodies are bracing themselves for disruption by anti-capitalist demonstrators...30 Apr 2001
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AMD pushes back Hammer release
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced on 27 April that it would delay the release of microprocessors based on its 64-bit...30 Apr 2001
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Sun jump-starts peer-to-peer
Sun Microsystems is spearheading an open-source initiative to develop peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols, giving a welcome boost to a...30 Apr 2001
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Security outsourcer closes doors on corporations
Pilot Network Services, beleaguered provider of security outsourcing services with a roster of major corporate clients, last week...30 Apr 2001
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Firms face barriers in push for data analysis
With the economic slowdown, businesses are especially hard-pressed to find new ways to exploit their sales, marketing and human...30 Apr 2001
