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Article | 3/05/2001 Microsoft's 'bundled' Media Player on the loose?
Which comes first - Microsoft's much anticipated Windows XP operating system, or it's new Media Player 8? To the chagrin of the software giant, and be...
Article | 3/05/2001 As Napster use fades, alternatives come on strong
Napster's attempts to comply with court mandates and move to a copyright-friendly system are leading users to abandon the service in favor of a myriad...
Article | 3/05/2001 Microsoft offers PC builders prizes to be finks
Microsoft has sparked controversy by issuing a letter to computer suppliers, offering them prizes for turning in businesses who may have "misunderstoo...
Article | 3/05/2001 Philips launches first DVD recorder
Philips announced on 2 May that later this year Australians will get what it claims to be the country's first DVD video recorder - the DVDR1000.
Article | 2/05/2001 Upcoming Windows server software gets a name
The next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system for enterprise servers dropped its code name Monday in exchange for a more marketable one. Th...
Article | 2/05/2001 Gartner: AOL, Microsoft in messaging war
America Online (AOL) and Microsoft are heading for a showdown over Internet instant messaging technology, as the service becomes increasingly importan...
Article | 2/05/2001 Microsoft admits flaw in Windows 2000 server software
Microsoft on Tuesday acknowledged that an "extremely serious" flaw in an obscure extension included in Windows 2000 could allow a hacker to gain compl...
Article | 2/05/2001 Jobs launches thinner, lighter iBook
Apple is thinking thin. The company launched its newest iBook laptop computer on Tuesday, an all-white machine starting at $US1299 that is both thinne...
Article | 2/05/2001 US, Chinese hackers continue Web defacements
Two days into what was supposed to be a 'cyberwar' launched by Chinese hackers in retaliation for the death of Chinese pilot Wang Wei, a number of US ...
Article | 2/05/2001 Report: Judge throws out claims in Rambus case
A federal judge has thrown out all but three claims made by memory systems designer Rambus in its patent infringement suit against Infineon Technologi...
Article | 2/05/2001 Webnoize: Napster downloads drop 36 per cent in April
Thanks to filters instituted to comply with court orders, MP3 downloads from Napster were down 36 per cent in April compared to March, according to a ...
Article | 2/05/2001 Hacker's appeal hinges on what's fair
In a David and Goliath case concerning such lofty issues as copyright infringements, fair use doctrines and First Amendment rights, a hacker magazine ...
Article | 1/05/2001 Dell snags PC server crown in US from Compaq
Compaq Computer Corp. is still the biggest server vendor in the world, according to a recent survey by Dataquest Inc. However, in the U.S., Dell has n...
Article | 1/05/2001 Phoning It In
A FRIEND SENT ME AN ARTICLE he'd clipped from the January 11 Christian Science Monitor, something about Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey ...
Article | 1/05/2001 Intel looks to China
Last week Intel announced a two year partnership agreement with the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. T...
Article | 1/05/2001 Spy plane incident leads to government hack
Two US government Web sites were hacked over the weekend, with at least one of the hackers posting a photo of Chinese pilot Wang Wei, who was killed w...
Article | 1/05/2001 DVD appeal to tackle copyrights, free speech
In a case that envelops two of the most bitter battles currently being waged in the online arena, a rogue hacker magazine is set to fight round two ag...
Article | 1/05/2001 Potential price hike seen for CD-R media
Prices for CD-R (compact-disc recordable) may increase soon, the result of royalty demands from the recording medium's patent holders. But name-brand ...
Article | 1/05/2001 Microsoft buys content management software for .Net
Microsoft has agreed to acquire NCompass Labs, which makes software for creating and managing Web content, in a move designed to further the software ...
Article | 1/05/2001 Sony lets slip details for new Clié handheld
In a case that demonstrates the dangers of being overprepared, Sony managed to inadvertently advertise its new Clié handheld computer for sale on its ...

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