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• January 14, 2005 14 Jan'05

  Avis uses wireless to slash check-in time

  Avis has used wireless technology to cut the time it takes to check in millions of rental cars being returned by customers.

• January 13, 2005 13 Jan'05

  Apple posts record profits

  Apple has posted big increases in sales and profits for its first quarter ending 25 December, helped by a Christmas rush for its...

• January 10, 2005 10 Jan'05

  NHS IT plan omitted practicalities

  The world's biggest civil computer project, the IT-led modernisation of the NHS, was launched without a full understanding of its...

• January 10, 2005 10 Jan'05

  Industry rallies to disaster victims

  The IT industry has been offering technical help and donations to aid the relief effort in south east Asia following the tsunami...

• January 10, 2005 10 Jan'05

  AMD announces Centrino wireless chip rival

  AMD has announced the release of a mobile wireless processor that will rival Intel’s Centrino offering.

• January 07, 2005 07 Jan'05

  IBM sharpens blade

  IBM expects to ship a new 32-processor server based on Intel's Xeon processors in the first half of 2005 and may begin selling...

• January 05, 2005 05 Jan'05

  Dell UK cuts system prices

  Dell has followed up its pre-Christmas US price cuts with reductions in the UK on specific configurations of servers, desktops...

• January 04, 2005 04 Jan'05

  Apple ships Xsan storage system

  Apple has begun shipping its enterprise class storage area network (San) file system Xsan.

• January 04, 2005 04 Jan'05

  BlackBerry support offers users greater choice

  Research In Motion (RIM) has signed up a number of third party smartphone makers to support its BlackBerry wireless e-mail system...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  Study says mobile phones affect DNA in isolated cells

  Radio frequency radiation from mobile phones can damage DNA in laboratory conditions, European researchers said in a recent...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  DoCoMo invests £1.5m in Linux developer MontaVista

  NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, expects to complete on Wednesday a £1.5m investment in Linux software...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  IBM readies 32-way Xeon server and hints at Opteron blade

  IBM expects to ship a new 32-processor server based on Intel's Xeon processors in the first half of 2005 and may begin selling...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  Nokia offers mobile field service package

  For companies seeking ways to increase the efficiency of their field forces, Nokia has introduced a one-touch system to connect...

• December 17, 2004 17 Dec'04

  Hewlett-Packard drops Itanium development

  Hewlett-Packard is getting out of the chip-making business. The company announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement to...

• December 17, 2004 17 Dec'04

  NTT DoCoMo's 4G research hits 1Gbps

  NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile communications carrier, achieved a 1Gbps packet transmission speed using 4G) mobile...

• December 16, 2004 16 Dec'04

  Infineon designs smallest “non-volatile” flash memory chip

  Scientists at German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies have developed what they claim to be the world's smallest...

• December 16, 2004 16 Dec'04

  FCC to consider allowing cell phones on planes

  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday kicked off efforts that could reshape the communications services...

• December 16, 2004 16 Dec'04

  Apple locks out RealNetworks with iPod update

  Apple has updated the software for some of its iPod digital media players so that songs bought from RealNetworks will not play.

• December 15, 2004 15 Dec'04

  WaveSat issues first standard-compliant WiMax chip

  WaveSat has begun shipping a chip that it says is the first to comply fully with the IEEE 802.16-2004 wireless broadband...

• December 14, 2004 14 Dec'04

  Siemens to decide fate of mobile phone unit

  German electronics giant Siemens AG could decide on the future of its mobile phone manufacturing division as early as next month,...

• December 13, 2004 13 Dec'04

  Google desktop search sparks surge of releases from competitors

  Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves all have plans to introduce desktop search products, two months after internet search leader...

• December 13, 2004 13 Dec'04

  Newham chooses HP to build MS Exchange infrastructure

  Newham Council has signed a $27m (£16m) 10-year deal with Hewlett-Packard to provide a Microsoft Windows and Exchange 2003-based...

• December 10, 2004 10 Dec'04

  New Gnome for Linux users

  A new version of GNU Network Object Model Environment (Gnome) desktop interfaces is available for download.

• December 10, 2004 10 Dec'04

  Dell considers second factory in Europe

  Dell is considering opening a second European production plant to support its steady growth on the continent.

• December 09, 2004 09 Dec'04

  Berners-Lee takes professorial chair at Southampton University

  The man recognised as the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is to begin work on the next version of the web at...

• December 09, 2004 09 Dec'04

  Disney backs Blu-Ray

  Walt Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment division have thrown their support behind the Blu-Ray high-definition DVD...

• December 09, 2004 09 Dec'04

  China's Lenovo to buy IBM's PC business

  China's Lenovo Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire IBM's personal computing division.

• December 08, 2004 08 Dec'04

  Lancs police trials mobile data services

  Lancashire police has launched a trial of mobile data services based on the O2 Airwave system.

• December 08, 2004 08 Dec'04

  IT women get support group

  A support group has been launched in a bid to boost the number of women in leadership positions in computing research.

• December 08, 2004 08 Dec'04

  Dell slams IBM-Lenovo deal

  Speaking before reports of IBM is to sell its PC business unit to China's Lenovo Group were confirmed Dell founder and cheif...

• December 08, 2004 08 Dec'04

  BEA hails app server upgrade

  Not to be outdone by rival Oracle, BEA Systems has unveiled version 9.0 of its WebLogic Server application server.

• December 08, 2004 08 Dec'04

  Cisco guns for datacentres

  Cisco Systems aimed straight for datacentres yesterday at its annual worldwide analyst conference, with company executives...

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Oracle launches major app server upgrade

  Oracle will introduce Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 tomorrow at its OpenWorld conference, describing it as a...

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Dell excludes UK from price cuts

  Dell is slashing prices on corporate IT solutions by up to 22%, but only for US customers.

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Mainframes fade away as Windows XP grows

  The rapid decline in use of mainframe systems in local government seems to be marking the end of a technology era.

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Epson working on e-paper delivery by 2010

  Seiko Epson is developing flexible display technologies that will usher in the commercialisation of electronic paper before the...

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Former Sun and BEA execs launch grid venture

  Former executives from companies Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and Oracle are launching a venture called Cassatt this week. Its...

• December 06, 2004 06 Dec'04

  EDS admits operator error caused DWP crash

  A mistake by an EDS computer operator caused the crash that prevented 40,000 PCs at the Department for Work and Pensions from...

• December 06, 2004 06 Dec'04

  Second taker for Transmeta's power leak plug

  Transmeta has licensed its LongRun2 power management technology to Fujitsu, the second customer to purchase rights to the...

• December 06, 2004 06 Dec'04

  Berners-Lee comes back to Britain to work on web's next generation

  Internet pioneers from around the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last week as Tim...

• December 06, 2004 06 Dec'04

  IBM puts PC business up for sale

  IBM, the company that invented the PC, has put its PC business up for sale, according to the New York Times, and is in...

• December 06, 2004 06 Dec'04

  Ericsson offers mobile "push" e-mail product

  Ericsson is hoping to take a slice of BlackBerry's pie, by reselling a mobile "push" e-mail product called Smartner.

• December 03, 2004 03 Dec'04

  Deepnet browser guards against phishing

  On the heels of a new Netscape preview release and the launch of Firefox 1.0, a UK company has released a web browser it claims...

• December 03, 2004 03 Dec'04

  Dell signs big desktop contract with Philips

  Dell has won a large global contract from Dutch electronics giant Philips Electronics to provide hardware and managed desktop...

• December 03, 2004 03 Dec'04

  NEC develops multi-core mobile phone processor

  Engineers at NEC have developed a processor for mobile telephones that includes three ARM processor cores in a single chip, a...

• December 02, 2004 02 Dec'04

  Wireless-J standard opens Japan to the Wi-Fi world

  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved a wireless standard that will expand international...

• December 02, 2004 02 Dec'04

  Intel seeks 'household name' status for digital home and office products

  Chip manufactuer Intel is to brand digital home and digital office products in a way that it hopes will make them a household...

• December 02, 2004 02 Dec'04

  IBM opens up on Power processors

  IBM has formed an industry consortium, called Power.org, to open up the process of building Power processors.

• December 01, 2004 01 Dec'04

  Sharp and Sony Ericsson work together on 3G handsets

  Sharp and the Japanese division of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will jointly develop mobile phone handsets based on the...

• December 01, 2004 01 Dec'04

  IBM to support Sybase for Linux

  IBM is extending its support for the products of one of its software competitors, Sybase, to present a Linux server-software...

• November 30, 2004 30 Nov'04

  Linux slashes costs for bank giant

  Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein uses Linux on Intel servers to cut running costs by 45%

• November 29, 2004 29 Nov'04

  Computer Associates picks IBM veteran Swainson to take the helm

  John Swainson, the leader of IBM's worldwide software sales group, has been appointed president and CEO-elect of Computer...

• November 29, 2004 29 Nov'04

  Budget must address lack of funds to fight e-crime

  The IT industry is hoping for more money to fight computer crime and extra tax relief for training when chancellor Gordon Brown...

• November 29, 2004 29 Nov'04

  Linux sales growth beats Windows

  Linux is gaining in popularity as a server operating system, according to the latest market data from research company IDC.

• November 26, 2004 26 Nov'04

  IAEA needs funds to update ageing systems

  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is struggling to raise funds to overhaul the computer system it uses to ensure...

• November 26, 2004 26 Nov'04

  UN to rule on Methuselah batteries

  A United Nations committee meeting next week will decide whether to allow cartridges containing methanol on commercial aircraft....

• November 25, 2004 25 Nov'04

  Mm02 in talks to roll out DoCoMo's I-mode in UK

  UK carrier mmO2 is negotiating with NTT DoCoMo to launch a mobile internet service in the UK based on the Japanese company's...

• November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04

  Fake Windows XP to be replaced for free

  Users who fear that their Windows XP software might be counterfeit could get free legitimate replacements from Microsoft under a...

• November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04

  Network printers vulnerable to hackers

  Printers can be hacked and used to launch denial of service attacks or compromise employee details over the web, a security...

• November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04

  AMD's 2005 mobile push off to early start

  Gericom and Packard Bell NEC plan to use the Mobile Sempron 3000+ chip in new notebooks before the end of the year, but AMD's new...

• November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04

  Linux server sales top $1bn in third quarter

  According to a report by analysts IDC, quarterly sales of servers running the Linux operating system topped $1bn (£533m) for the...

• November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04

  IT professionals hand out £70,000 to child charities

  Two charities have received cheques totalling £70,000, raised during two Computer Weekly-supported industry-wide events that took...

• November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04

  Sun to offer low-power Niagra chip

  Sun is developing a low-power version of its Ultrasparc chip, dubbed Niagra, for blade servers based on 90-nanometer fabrication...

• November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04

  Expanding Isotrak becomes blade runner

  Logistics support firm Isotrak, whose customers include Tesco and Royal Mail, has used blade servers to expand its computing...

• November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04

  Blunkett defends £3.1bn ID card spend as an add-on to passports

  The home secretary David Blunkett has defended the government's plans to spend more than £3.1bn on its national biometric ID card...

• November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04

  Microsoft ignores Itanium 2 to target low end with cluster server

  Microsoft will not support Intel's Itanium 2 processor in Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, due out in the second half...

• November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04

  DoCoMo develops Linux and Symbian platform

  NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, has developed a common software platform that can run on both the Linux and Symbian...

• November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04

  Intel considers India for chip manufacturing

  Intel is considering India as a possible location for a new chip manufacturing facility.

• November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04

  W3C's workshop aims to improve handheld web access

  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is considering a new effort called the "W3C Mobile Web Initiative", that will seek to make...

• November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04

  Yahoo and SBC extend partnership and plan new services

  Yahoo and SBC Communications have agreed to collaborate to extend some of the online services and content they currently provide...

• November 18, 2004 18 Nov'04

  Microsoft and Dassault Systèmes team on 3D design

  Microsoft and Dassault Systèmes will work to integrate Microsoft's Office applications with Dassault Systèmes' 3D design...

• November 18, 2004 18 Nov'04

  Gateway expands Media Center PC lineup

  Gateway has released two additional Media Center PCs in the hope that consumer excitement over multimedia will boost what is...

• November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04

  PC hard drive expands size and speed

  Seagate Technology has started shipping a 400Gbyte hard drive targeted at personal computers.

• November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04

  Maxtor loses fourth finance director in eight months

  In another round of executive turmoil at hard-disc drive maker Maxtor, chief executive and head of finance Paul Tufano has left...

• November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04

  Profits perk up at HP

  Hewlett-Packard's troubled enterprise storage and servers group bounced back to profitability and the company as a whole saw...

• November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04

  AMD to put virtualisation on low-end server chips

  AMD plans to build security and virtualisation features in its server processors by 2006.

• November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04

  Nokia demos first mobile call using IP standard

  Nokia has developed a prototype handset that supports Mobile IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), a version of the protocol that...

• November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04

  Dell thrusts blade into datacentres

  A substantial price cut and footprint squeeze show a new commitment from Dell to getting its enterprise-class blade servers into...

• November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04

  3.8GHz Pentium last of the speed breed

  As expected, Intel introduced a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 processor yesterday in what could represent the end of an era for the chip...

• November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04

  Apache hands Geronimo compliance weapons

  Geronimo, the open-source Java application server in development by Apache, will offer a flexible technology base for regulatory...

• November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04

  Dell and Microsoft integrate patch management apps

  Dell and Microsoft are working together to integrate their systems management applications to allow customers to update server...

• November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04

  Certification gives IT recycling drive a boost

  Computer recycling company RDC last week announced it had become the first company of its type to achieve British Standards...

• November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04

  News in brief

  Short takes from this week's news

• November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04

  Minister promises extra funding for NHS systems

  NHS trusts will have the funds to allow them to increase their IT budgets to 4% of the total NHS spend, according to the health...

• November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04

  PDA market veers to Windows CE

  Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants (PDAs) using Microsoft's Windows CE operating system have surpassed those...

• November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04

  Icann domain transfer policy takes effect

  The new transfer policy for inter-registrar domain names came into effect last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  How access control works

  This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" explains what access control really does.

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  The structure of a SID

  This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" describes the fields that make up a SID.

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  Well-known SIDs

  This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" offers examples of constant SIDs.

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  Intel's Pentium M sales take off in US

  Intel's Pentium M mobile processor is finally starting to gain ground against older mobile technologies in the eyes of US...

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  eBay buys top Dutch ads site

  Online auction powerhouse eBay has scooped up Dutch classifieds website Marktplaats.nl.

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  Survey finds grid computing uptake slow

  Only one in five IT managers surveyed by analyst firm IDC understood grid computing with most respondents failing to see its...

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  Record results for Dell in third quarter

  Dell continued to outpace the rest of the IT industry in the company's third quarter with sizzling growth in shipments, revenue,...

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  Dell closer to using AMD chips

  Dell president and chief executive officer Kevin Rollins indicated that the company is considering including Advanced Micro...

• November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04

  Microsoft's own search engine hits beta

  A beta version of Microsoft's search went live yesterday with an interface and features that bring it more into line with popular...

• November 10, 2004 10 Nov'04

  Firefox looks to integrated desktop searches

  Having launched the much awaited version 1.0 of the Firefox browser yesterday, the Mozilla Foundation is already planning...

• November 10, 2004 10 Nov'04

  Itanium 2 stuffed with cache

  Intel has delivered updated Itanium 2 processors with larger memory caches aimed, in part, at high-volume data warehouse...

• November 09, 2004 09 Nov'04

  Dual-core desktops still 18 months off

  Montecito, the first dual-core processor based on Intel's Itanium 2 architecture, will not begin shipping in volume until 2006.

• November 09, 2004 09 Nov'04

  Blue Gene quits ivory tower

  Fresh from setting a supercomputer performance record, IBM has announced it will make a commercial version of its Blue Gene...

• November 09, 2004 09 Nov'04

  Business the star of supercomputing show

  As companies explore the possibility of adding supercomputers to their IT portfolio, supercomputer prices continue to fall even...