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Article | 28/03/2001 Dutch police fight mobile phone theft with SMS bombs
The Amsterdam police force announced Tuesday that it has found a new weapon against the rising theft of mobile telephones: text message bombs.
Article | 28/03/2001 Check Point signs partners for new security architecture
Check Point Software Technologies Tuesday announced new technology and partnerships designed to help businesses boost the performance of their virtual...
Article | 28/03/2001 Intel says 'Giga PC' arriving soon
Pat Gelsinger, vice president and CTO of Intel said Tuesday that innovations from Intel and Microsoft, combined with work by computer makers, will del...
Article | 28/03/2001 MS moves toward unified OS with Windows XP
Taking the first steps in an ambitious attempt to gradually shift the entire computer industry over to a single, unified operating system, Microsoft T...
Article | 27/03/2001 Citrix links PDAs to apps wirelessly
Citrix Systems is showcasing at CeBIT its Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client software that can be used to link mobile workers wirelessly ...
Article | 27/03/2001 Crusoe finds a home in Microsoft's Tablet PC
Microsoft is working with Transmeta to incorporate Transmeta's Crusoe processor in the software maker's Tablet PC, a portable computer due next year t...
Article | 27/03/2001 Via announces successor to Cyrix III processor
Via Technologies officially launched its new low-power C3 processor Sunday, at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover. The device will be priced at $US54 per...
Article | 27/03/2001 Burn for you: Alliance wraps up Mt. Rainier CD spec
Four industry leaders have finished their work on the Mount Rainier specification, a project to make writing, deleting and rewriting data to a CD as s...
Article | 27/03/2001 Caldera, SCO announce Linux wrapper for Open Unix
Caldera and The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) announced Monday in conjunction with the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover that they will release a new Unix-base...
Article | 26/03/2001 SingTel swoops to win Optus deal
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has won the bidding to buy Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) with a combined cash, share and bond offer worth $17.2 ...
Article | 26/03/2001 Organic EL displays step forward
Confined to flat panel display conferences and shows until now, organic electroluminescence displays (OELDs) made an appearance at the CeBIT show in H...
Article | 26/03/2001 Companies bet on Bluetooth headsets
The wireless future is on its way, and holding your mobile phone in your hand while using it may soon be a thing of the past, or at least that's what ...
Article | 26/03/2001 Anti-spam bill passes US subcommittee
A US congressional subcommittee has approved legislation that would prohibit the sending of unsolicited junk or "spam" e-mail unless it is clearly mar...
Article | 26/03/2001 Worm puts Linux servers in a real bind
An "unusually destructive" computer worm is winding through the network conduits of Linux computers, capable of massively compromising servers by expl...
Article | 23/03/2001 AMD pushes Athlon chip to 1.33Ghz
Advanced Micro Devices launched new versions of its Athlon processor Thursday running at 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz, increasing the speed limit from 1.2GHz on...
Article | 23/03/2001 3G auction closes at $1.17 billion
Australia's 3G (third-generation) mobile spectrum auction closed Thursday with the six bidders agreeing to pay a total of $1.17 billion for 48 of the ...
Article | 23/03/2001 IBM talks wireless partnerships, portal services
IBM stormed the massive CeBIT trade show here Thursday, showing off its WebSphere Portal Server alongside such high-tech goodies as a networked Porsch...
Article | 23/03/2001 Alliance shows DVD+RW technology, blasts rivals
The DVD+RW (Digital Versatile Disc) Alliance came out in force Thursday promoting its format for writing video to a DVD. DVD+RW drives for PCs and vid...
Article | 23/03/2001 Napster to court: Labels are overzealous
In its second brief detailing its compliance with a judge's order to block copyrighted materials from its service, Napster said the record labels suin...
Article | 22/03/2001 Ericsson, Microsoft team up for audio, video
Microsoft and Ericsson have announced a device that will play Windows Media Audio (WMA) files over Ericsson's R520 handset.

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