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Article | 19/12/2000 High-tech hearts: how romance drives innovation
Everyone's going mad for SMS -- particularly for a little discreet romantic communication.
Article | 19/12/2000 MS issues beta of embedded Whistler OS
Microsoft on Monday released a beta version of the embedded implementation of Whistler, the next release of the Windows 2000 operating system that is ...
Article | 18/12/2000 Telecom New Zealand eyes C&W Optus purchase
Telecom New Zealand is looking to acquire pieces of Australia's second-largest carrier Cable & Wireless Optus as part of its expansion plans, the comp...
Article | 18/12/2000 Flat-panel price decreases forecast
A continued slide in LCD monitor prices could make 15-inch flat-panel displays as cheap as $US500 next year -- and possibly hot items for Christmas 20...
Article | 18/12/2000 Movie passes death sentence on Gates
Expect Bill Gates to paraphrase Mark Twain's famous remark as word gets around about a new film portraying his assassination. The makers of the film, ...
Article | 18/12/2000 Intel to discount Pentium 4 next year
Setting the stage for an even more competitive processor market in 2001, Intel plans to expand its new Pentium 4 chip into wider markets by lowering p...
Article | 18/12/2000 Bluetooth may bring flood of in-building services
Wireless networks based on Bluetooth technology next year will begin to transform some restaurants, airports and even stores by letting customers acce...
Article | 15/12/2000 Too cool for school
Education sites have just experienced a surge in traffic, as secondary students look at their future prospects online.
Article | 15/12/2000 Big Brother show spawns brethren
The popularity of the mixed-media "reality soaps" suggests a new business model for entertainment with the Net as an intregral part. The phenomenally ...
Article | 15/12/2000 Intel delays, changes focus of new Irish fab
Intel on Wednesday announced it will delay the opening of a wafer fabrication plant in Ireland for nine months to a year in order to support a new waf...
Article | 15/12/2000 Acer slims down ahead of major restructuring
Acer Group has slimmed down its operations worldwide ahead of a scheduled unveiling of its second major restructuring effort in as many years.
Article | 15/12/2000 AOL-Time Warner merger gets the nod
The US Federal Trade Commission approved America Online's merger with Time Warner on Thursday, after the companies agreed to concessions designed to p...
Article | 14/12/2000 Coming soon: all-in-one online accounts
The ugly face of account glut is haunting online consumers who use different sites to track their bank balances, brokerage positions, frequent-flyer p...
Article | 14/12/2000 Quotes of the year -- who said what in IT
It's that time of the year again, time to reveal some of the interesting, funny and downright stupid comments that issued from the mouths of the great...
Article | 14/12/2000 Database comissioned to track music rights online
The International Music Joint Venture (IMJV) has asked French-Dutch IT services provider Atos Origin to build a database for music rights that can als...
Article | 14/12/2000 Ask Jeeves shows staff the door
It doesn't sound like the Christmas party at Web information access provider Ask Jeeves is going to be very merry. The company announced on Tuesday th...
Article | 14/12/2000 Next: smaller, faster, wireless streaming media
Admit it: You don't care what it takes to get your audio and video streamed to you. You just want to get it, and you want it to work. At the Streaming...
Article | 13/12/2000 Time to move on(line)
It's official. You can do anything on the internet. Even move house.
Article | 13/12/2000 Security crusader punches holes in firewalls
PC security gadfly Steve Gibson has released a simple Trojan horse program that masquerades as a "trusted" application and gains unrestricted access t...
Article | 13/12/2000 Samsung phone, Bluetooth in Palm's future
Samsung Electronics became Palm's latest customer Tuesday, announcing plans to deliver a smart mobile phone based on Palm's software that combines voi...

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