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Article | 7/01/2002 Boeing gets FCC license for Internet service on planes
The Boeing Co. has been granted a license by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to launch its new airborne Internet service. However, the proj...
Article | 7/01/2002 Microsoft urges Passport users to install IE patch
Microsoft has sent out e-mail notifications to nearly 200 million Passport users during the past month urging them to install a patch released nearly ...
Article | 7/01/2002 Euro conversion goes smoothly, but tests for IT remain
A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defense motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Article | 7/01/2002 Panda introduces Exchange antivirus tool to the US
In the wake of a rash of nasty e-mail viruses over the past year, European antivirus tools vendor Panda Software this week made the first U.S. release...
Article | 7/01/2002 Keyboard stroke capture okay, judge says
A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defense motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Article | 21/12/2001 Xerox wins suit against Palm, 3Com
Xerox Corp.'s long-standing patent infringement suit over Palm Inc. and 3Com Corp.'s use of its handwriting recognition reached a milestone Thursday w...
Article | 21/12/2001 A Ghost of a chance
It's no surprise that vendors cripple their bottom-of-the-line products to protect sales of their more expensive versions. But customers should at lea...
Article | 21/12/2001 Is Microsoft's Time Warped?
Does anybody really know what time it is? Apparently Microsoft doesn't.
Article | 21/12/2001 Teaching children well
Companies debating the acceptance of self-service technology by customers or employees should meet Carol Brennan, 14. Brennan is a self-service wirele...
Article | 21/12/2001 2001: The year the Internet stopped being fun
Remember when you could barely resist the Internet's lure? When the rush of discovering a new Web site or stumbling across a nifty service kept you co...
Article | 21/12/2001 Entry-level chips get lost in high-level price war
Retail stores and Web sites are loaded with great deals on PCs with high-end processors for the holiday season, but with prices of such processors bei...
Article | 21/12/2001 Jack will kill me if he finds out
When Jody Lin kissed Jack outside of a Taipei disco on a sultry June evening, it didn't take long for much of Taiwan's expatriate community to find ou...
Article | 21/12/2001 2001: He said, she said - the year in quotes
"May you live in interesting times," says the curse (often said to be of ancient Chinese origin, though scholars dispute that). With all its horror, h...
Article | 21/12/2001 Startup has designs on Web documents
Since 1996, the staff at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine had been looking for a tool that would let faculty and students mark up,...
Article | 21/12/2001 Via takes C3 processor to 933MHz
Taiwanese chip designer Via Technologies Inc. Wednesday rolled out the latest addition to its C3 processor family, unveiling a 933MHz version of the c...
Article | 21/12/2001 EU to impose dumping tax on Taiwanese CD-Rs
The European Union will impose an anti-dumping tax on all Taiwanese CD-R (CD-recordable) makers, a European Commission official said Thursday.
Article | 21/12/2001 AT&T Broadband to merge with Comcast in $72B deal
After six months of conversations with a number of suitors, AT&T Corp. agreed to merge its cable television and broadband unit with Comcast Corp. in a...
Article | 21/12/2001 Broadband providers push customer self-service
This spring two broadband communications companies will deploy customer self-service software from competing vendors.
Article | 21/12/2001 Microsoft patch blocks holes in XP
Microsoft Corp. issued a security bulletin Thursday to users of its Windows operating systems, warning of three "critical" holes in the software that ...
Article | 21/12/2001 Toshiba to provide SRAM knowledge to China's SMIC
Toshiba Corp. has signed its first semiconductor production technology transfer deal with a Chinese chip-maker, the company announced Thursday.

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