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Article | 15/06/2001 New MP3 format challenges Windows Audio 8
The decade-old MP3 digital sound recording format has been updated, and now features double the compression rate at the same sound quality. Thomson Mu...
Article | 14/06/2001 HP, NTT DoCoMo make progress on 4G
Hewlett-Packard's research lab and NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile telecommunication carrier, are working closely to develop a better way of delive...
Article | 14/06/2001 Europeans angry over DVD prices
The European Commission launched an investigation on Monday into DVD (digital versatile disc) prices, demanding to know why they cost more in Europe t...
Article | 14/06/2001 Security hole in SQL lets attackers take over
A security flaw in Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 Gold can allow an attacker to take control of a targeted server, the company said in...
Article | 14/06/2001 Boeing, 3 airlines launch in-flight Net deal
Aerospace vendor Boeing announced Wednesday that it has entered into a joint venture with three major airline carriers to offer two-way Internet broad...
Article | 14/06/2001 Gamecube uncovered - IBM, ATI inside
Nintendo's next-generation Gamecube video-game console will have an IBM CPU (central processing unit) based on the PowerPC processor, a feature expect...
Article | 13/06/2001 Standard secures Aussie e-commerce
Australia's e-commerce industry received a boost today with the adoption of new international information security guidelines designed to facilitate s...
Article | 13/06/2001 Accenture boosting Microsoft .NET with developer tools
Quick to jump on the .NET bandwagon, Accenture will announce next Monday a toolkit to help corporate users quickly develop and deploy applications tha...
Article | 13/06/2001 Palm gets its blue teeth into Wireless
Bluetooth support for Palm's handheld offerings look set to be available in Australia by the end of the year.
Article | 13/06/2001 Analysts: AOL, Microsoft wars have just begun
Expect things between corporate giants Microsoft and AOL TimeWarner to get nasty, and soon.
Article | 13/06/2001 Coalition announces Linux interactive TV project
A group of 24 IT companies are banding together to form the TV Linux Alliance, which will focus on developing a Linux environment for the digital set-...
Article | 13/06/2001 Seagate launches 80GB drives
Seagate Technology Monday began shipping two 80GB hard drives, the latest in the company's U series of drives.
Article | 13/06/2001 Virus hoax warns people to delete AOL
Perhaps the greatest thrill for any prankster is to have his hoax taken as truth. Just such a thing has happened to Ray Owens, who runs a Web site cal...
Article | 12/06/2001 Bluetooth breakthrough will cut costs
Chipset megalith National Semiconductor has produced a Bluetooth chipset that could reduce the cost, size and power consumption of Bluetooth-enabled p...
Article | 12/06/2001 Intel engineers boast world's fastest transistor
Intel has made what it claims are the fastest silicon transistors ever built, and said its achievement shows that semiconductor performance can contin...
Article | 12/06/2001 Final Fantasy IX big winner at PlayStation Awards 2001
Square's Final Fantasy IX game software was the big winner Monday night in Tokyo at Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCEI) PlayStation Awards 2001.
Article | 12/06/2001 Antivirus vendors cancel free software for home users
Expect to start paying for protection against viruses and worms. Computer Associates International (CA) and Aladdin Knowledge Systems last week both d...
Article | 12/06/2001 Few vendors show ATI-based graphics boards
ATI Technologies Inc. used to be the only company that made graphics boards using its line of graphics chips. But faced with a shrinking share of the ...
Article | 8/06/2001 Portugal rolls out broadband MS set-top boxes
Microsoft took its long-awaited interactive-television software prime time, deploying the first commercial release of its broadband set-top box with P...
Article | 8/06/2001 Handheld devices must do more, says IDC
Users want handheld computing devices, including PDAs (personal digital assistants), to incorporate a greater variety of functions.

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