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Article | 16/05/2000 Droppable Toshiba sheds inches
Hard-drive manufacturers keep stuffing more and more data into smaller drives. That's hardly anything new, right? But Toshiba is bringing small drives...
Article | 16/05/2000 Fun filled phones Finnish first
Most people don't consider their mobile phone fun, but Nokia wants to change that. This week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA, the company l...
Article | 16/05/2000 IE users warned: Close cookie jar
Users of Internet Explorer on Windows platforms are being advised to turn off JavaScript to prevent their cookie files from being read by hostile webs...
Article | 16/05/2000 NASA Strengthens Software Approach
The software and management problems that contributed to the loss of the two Mars spacecraft in 1999 convinced NASA's chief information officer that i...
Article | 16/05/2000 HK etailer going crazy with bookings
Chinese Books CyberStore Ltd., a Hong Kong-based Internet retailer, says it's shelving plans to follow in the footsteps of Amazon.com, whose business ...
Article | 16/05/2000 Solution may be found in Tyler resignation
Solution 6 investors seem to have given their seal of approval to the resignation of CEO Chris Tyler, as shares in the company surged 27.5 per cent ye...
Article | 16/05/2000 ACCC cracks down on free ISP
Free ISP GoConnect has fallen under the hammer of the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission and is no longer permitted to advertise any free ...
Article | 16/05/2000 Love Bug suspect denies involvement
Michael Buen, the former AMA Computer College (AMACC) student suspected of writing the "Love Bug" virus with his college buddy, this weekend denied ha...
Article | 15/05/2000 Warning: New Threat to Web Sites
Sinister new tool could bypass defenses to denial-of-service attacks.
Article | 15/05/2000 EMC, IBM settle patent suits
Rivals EMC and IBM on Friday settled their longstanding lawsuit involving patent infringement allegations.
Article | 15/05/2000 Alliance to curb call centre staff turnover
The call centre industry has a current employee turnover rate of 20 per cent, according to the Australian Call Centre Association, and with each emplo...
Article | 15/05/2000 Gates closed on security guard
Microsoft's refusal to participate in the development of platform-independent authentication technology has raised criticism from officials determined...
Article | 15/05/2000 Oracle denies age discrimination charge
Oracle last week "categorically" denied claims in a lawsuit filed by a former company executive who said he was fired because he was too old.
Article | 15/05/2000 Cookie data in IE may be vulnerable to snooping
Users of Internet Explorer on Windows platforms are being advised to turn off JavaScript to prevent their cookie files from being read by hostile Web ...
Article | 13/05/2000 Newsflash: Chris Tyler quits Sol 6
Despite claiming last week that he had no intention of leaving Solution 6, embattled CEO Chris Tyler has resigned, effective from May 13.
Article | 11/05/2000 Elite bows out of Sol 6 merger
Solution 6's proposed merger with US-based Elite Information Group has officially been called off.
Article | 11/05/2000 Microsoft's Hotmail wide open to hackers
Australia's 2 million Hotmail users have been sitting ducks for hackers until yesterday, when security loopholes in the Microsoft-owned free email ser...
Article | 11/05/2000 B2C bloc blasts B2B blather
The fashionable IT industry mantra that business-to-business is the future of e-commerce is quite simply false, says business-to-consumer tech support...
Article | 11/05/2000 Tech stocks fall in wake of Budget
A bloodbath befell the ASX yesterday, the nation's first day under a federal Budget which ignored IT industry concerns, and few tech stocks were spar...
Article | 11/05/2000 Tech stocks thrown in the deep end
Following Worldschool's disastrous start on the ASX yesterday, internet investors will be keeping a close eye on other online companies Sharon Austen ...

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