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Article | 28/09/2000 Pundit: Linux independence needs guarding
Although Linux is ever gaining more supporters, its status as a truly open-source operating system is not assured, industry pundit Nicholas Petreley s...
Article | 28/09/2000 Intel releases new chipset
Intel Wednesday released the first chipset based on its XScale microarchitecture designed to increase the processing power of Internet-based applicati...
Article | 28/09/2000 Copyright music bodies permit global Net licenses
The legal issues surrounding online music distribution may have taken a small step toward clarity Tuesday when a number of copyright organisations con...
Article | 28/09/2000 Olympic pirate sites caught in the act
Illegal internet streaming of Olympics coverage has not reached the high proportions expected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with less ...
Article | 27/09/2000 Fujitsu readies Transmeta-based notebooks
Fujitsu this week became the latest Japanese computer manufacturer to announce plans to incorporate startup Transmeta's new Crusoe microprocessors in ...
Article | 27/09/2000 Motorola buys Lineo stake for embedded Linux
Motorola has bought an 8-per cent stake in embedded Linux operating system vendor Lineo for $US22.5 million, the companies announced this week.
Article | 27/09/2000 BT's chief technologist exhorts: waste bandwidth!
Free movies, bottomless bandwidth and parasitic networks -- these are all things we should look forward to according to Peter Cochrane, chief technolo...
Article | 27/09/2000 HP unveils 32-way Net server
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Tuesday announced an HP NetServer 32-way server that will ship with the Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter operating system.
Article | 27/09/2000 Microsoft, IBM release ebiz specifications
IBM and Microsoft have developed a language standard for the new UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) business directory, which is ...
Article | 27/09/2000 Red Hat's chairman touts new open source
Red Hat's Chairman Robert Young said Tuesday that he is unconcerned by Microsoft's domination of the proprietary PC operating systems market. Red Hat ...
Article | 27/09/2000 Samsung, Toshiba debut SmartMedia cards
Users of portable electronic devices such as digital still cameras and MP3 players will soon be able to store and carry more information with them as ...
Article | 27/09/2000 SOCOG faces damages over website
The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) has failed to comply with a ruling to make the official Games website (olympics.com) ful...
Article | 27/09/2000 Supreme Court decision good news for Microsoft
The US Supreme Court Tuesday decided not to hear the Microsoft antitrust case until the breakup order against the company is first reviewed by the US ...
Article | 27/09/2000 Channel 7 ponders domain future
Channel 7's online division, i7 is unsure what it will do with its domain name, olympics.com.au when the Olympics madness has passed.
Article | 27/09/2000 Olympic Village built on more than bricks and mortar
Design software company Autodesk has staked its claim over the technology used to design the Olympic Village at Newington, Sydney.
Article | 26/09/2000 AMD to assure motherboard compatibility
Advanced Micro Devices announced on Monday the launch of a global motherboard certification program designed to assure system integrators and users th...
Article | 26/09/2000 A Palm inside a Motorola phone
Palm and Motorola announced on Monday a plan to develop a phone that puts the heart of a Palm personal digital assistant inside a standard-size mobile...
Article | 26/09/2000 Supreme court nearing Microsoft antitrust decision
Meeting for the first time in several months, the US Supreme Court could decide this week whether or not it will hear the appeal of the guilty verdict...
Article | 26/09/2000 E-Book industry warned of piracy threat
The electronic-book industry must be diligent and energetic in its efforts to avoid the copyright problems the music industry has experienced due to t...
Article | 26/09/2000 Antivirus vendors gear up for phones, PDAs
With the emergence last week of the first virus aimed at Palm computers, antivirus software vendors are scrambling to develop products that protect ag...

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