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Article | 30/01/2002 Prototype phone boosts speech recognition quality
Motorola and speech recognition software maker SpeechWorks International Inc. have developed a prototype phone that they say will help computers bette...
Article | 30/01/2002 France Télécom sees double-digit revenue growth in 2002
Matsushita Electrical Industrial, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics o...
Article | 30/01/2002 Matsushita sues Samsung over DRAM patents
Matsushita Electrical Industrial, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics o...
Article | 30/01/2002 Handspring launches PDA phone in Asia
Handheld device maker Handspring has moved into new territory as it launched its PDA (personal digital assistant)-cum-phone, called Treo, in Hong Kong...
Article | 30/01/2002 Sklyarov's company files motion arguing against DMCA
ElcomSoft, the employer of freed Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, filed a series of motions with a U.S. District Court Monday in which it spells ou...
Article | 29/01/2002 LINUXWORLD: More services aimed at businesses
Last year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York was a time for major vendors like IBM and Hewlett-Packard to debut new hardware offerings running...
Article | 29/01/2002 SMS not the answer in an emergency: ACA
Mobile users should not rely on short message service (SMS) in an emergency, warned the Australian Communications Authority (ACA).
Article | 29/01/2002 Telstra phone service falls victim to software glitch
A fault within Telstra's switching equipment at a Northwestern Sydney exchange cut phone access for thousands of users yesterday (Monday January 28 20...
Article | 29/01/2002 Xilinx offers mobile phone antitheft feature
Custom logic chip maker, Xilinx Inc. announced Monday that it has a solution to the problem of mobile phone thefts: electronic chips that can be recon...
Article | 29/01/2002 Check Point appliances target small businesses
With an eye toward extending its reach to the lower-end of the security market, leading firewall and VPN (virtual private network) vendor Check Point ...
Article | 29/01/2002 Panasonic updates its twin-screen PC
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. unveiled new models of its twin-screen desktop PCs, which are designed for use in situations such as presentat...
Article | 29/01/2002 Xandros readies Corel Linux distribution
The distribution of the Linux operating system for desktop PCs developed by Corel Corp. is set to make a comeback in April, according to the startup t...
Article | 29/01/2002 CERT: AOL's ICQ chat app has security flaw
A security hole in America Online Inc.'s ICQ chat program could allow attackers to run the code of their choice on a computer using the program, the f...
Article | 29/01/2002 Sony sees a record quarter
Sony Corp. seemingly flew in the face of its own market observations Friday when, announcing its third-quarter financial results, said general weaknes...
Article | 29/01/2002 TSMC sees 2001 income sink, brighter times ahead
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract semiconductor maker, saw a sharp fall in revenues and profits in 2001...
Article | 29/01/2002 MyParty virus features dangerous snapshot
Antivirus officials are warning users to be on the lookout for the new "Myparty" virus that preys on the popularity of personalized photograph Web pag...
Article | 29/01/2002 Web service sends your final farewell
Imagine receiving a new e-mail from an old friend that begins, "By the time you read this, I will have passed on."
Article | 25/01/2002 Sony issues security alert for some Vaio computers
Sony Corp. is urging customers who have bought Vaio computers since November to upgrade their software after the discovery of a potentially serious so...
Article | 25/01/2002 Gateway bloodbath continues
The bloodbath continues for computer giant Gateway which closed its operations in Australia last September.
Article | 25/01/2002 Dell kiboshes local hosting service
Dell Australia has canned any plans it may have had of entering the hosting business in Australia, following the mild success of its DellHost business...

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