May 2001
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Roll out of '.info' and '.biz' TLD suffixes begins
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved plans for the .biz and .info top-level domain (TLDs)... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
ASPs know the joke is on you
ASPs hold the key to cutting the ever-increasing cost and storage problems of e-mail Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Staroffice 6 will feature MS Office XP compatibility
The next version of Staroffice, Sun's open source application suite, to be released later this year, will be file-compatible with... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
ITNet front runner for £35m e-government deal
ITNet has been named as the preferred supplier for a £35m contract to deliver information and communications technology (ICT)... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Microsoft to sign EU-US data protection agreement
Microsoft will in the coming weeks sign up to the European Union-US Safe Harbor agreement, which allows firms to export personal... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Logging on...
The timber industry used to be fragmented, with many of its players traditional and slow moving. The Web has turned it around and... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
BT warns we may have blown 3G investment
British Telecom has told shareholders that 3G technology will take longer than expected to develop and may be no better than... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Computacenter criticises government procurement catalogue
Computacenter has expressed dismay at the Office of Government Commerce's changes to Gcat, the public sector procurement... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Falling down
The number of adverts for IT jobs has begun to fall after a four-year run of increases. Nicholas Enticknap looks at the figures... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Dafs to take NAS to the next level
Network-attached storage (NAS) was the big growth area of 2000 and now a new development looks set to improve performance, writes... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Intel's Pappas says InfiniBand is the future
The traffic jam where data tries to get from servers and storage to the Internet will soon be a thing of the past if the... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
UPDATE - Acer hit by blaze at Taiwanese high-tech offices
A fire that started early Saturday morning and burned for 37 hours outside Taipei has caused extensive damage in an office... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Nortel and EMC work on optically networked storage
In a joint effort to develop the best optically networked storage devices, EMC and Nortel Networks have announced they are... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
McNealy outs Big Blue bad guys over breakfast
A hailstorm, according to Sun Microsystems' CEO and chief comedian Scott McNealy is something to be avoided if you live in the US... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
HP jumps on the Linux bandwagon
Hewlett-Packard has formally declared Linux as its third strategic operating system. Ian Murphy reports Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Sun brings P2P into the business with Jxta
Eager to exploit the burgeoning peer-to-peer (P2P) market, Sun Microsystems unveiled its XML-based peer-to-peer transport... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Public appointments - Hospitals act to fight IT infection
Doctors are not the only ones fighting viruses in the UK's hospitals, as NHS Trusts roll out Sophos software Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Novell guns for MS Active Directory
Novell has fired a broadside at Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Active Directory by offering its own eDirectory software free of... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
June release for DB2 7.2
IBM has announced that the next version of its DB2 database software - designed to help businesses manage information located in... Continue Reading
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May 16, 2001
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May'01
Commerce reviews new ICANN-VeriSign deal
The US Department of Commerce is "pleased with the progress" made between domain-name registry VeriSign and the Internet... Continue Reading