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  • 11 November 2005

  • News: Sony DRM code hijacked by Trojan

    A Trojan horse program has been discovered that hooks into Sony’s controversial DRM (digital rights management) copy-protection software to hide itself on any PC it infects.

  • 10 November 2005

  • Opinion: Are you being funny?

    As someone who once had a job with, wait for it, no email account, it took me a while to get to grips with the vagaries of professional e-conversational etiquette.

  • Opinion: Migration frustration

    I'm migrating. In fact, a lot of people at IDG are migrating.

  • News: Google links maps, enterprise search tools

    Google's enterprise unit was recently entrusted with the business versions of the Google Earth mapping products, and executives are already discussing ways to integrate them with the company's enterprise search products.

  • News: Microsoft SUS users face delays

    Users of Microsoft's SUS (Software Update Services) will have to wait a little longer to obtain the company's latest security patch, the software vendor said yesterday. Microsoft issued a patch fixing three critical graphics bugs in the Windows operating system on Tuesday, but the company has been unable to deliver the software to users of its SUS corporate update service, Microsoft said Wednesday.

  • News: Gartner: IT departments shrinking

    The demand for IT specialists is decreasing and the size of IT departments is shrinking significantly, according to new research presented by Gartner at the Gartner ITxpo conference in Cannes on Wednesday.

  • News: Pixar sells 125,000 flicks through iTunes

    Pixar Animation Studios sold 125,000 short movie clips through iTunes in just under one month, the company revealed this week.

  • News: Microsoft prepares for services sea change

    In a leaked memo to top Microsoft executives, Bill Gates has said the company is facing its biggest challenge in the current "services wave".

  • News: UK telecom regulator clears RFID tagging

    The watchdog has allocated the 865MHz to 868MHz range for RFID tags to be used in asset tracking and stock control. No licence will be required, under the decision, which 'will save UK businesses £100m to £200m over 10 years'

  • 09 November 2005

  • Opinion: Microsoft spills the beans on OEM changes - finally.

    I had a good long chat to Eric Gales of Microsoft today.

  • Opinion: Big Brother is watching you. Well, the IT dept is anyway

    I'm a little bit torn this lunchtime. I've just been chatting with a guy from Centennial software. Since April of this year, Centennial have been rolling out a product called DeviceWall, which basically allows IT managers to see - and block - devices that are being connected to the PCs in their network.

  • News: Samsung not planning a music service after all

    Samsung isn't planning an online music store to compete with existing services, it said on Monday, claiming previous reports were the result of a misunderstanding.

  • News: Microsoft renames antispyware product

    Microsoft has given an official name to its antispyware software. The product, which has been known as Windows AntiSpyware Beta 1.0, will be called Windows Defender when the finished version becomes available next year.

  • News: Google pursues rivals' customers

    Google is looking to poach customers of other enterprise search vendors with a new trade-in programme aimed at fostering adoption of its Search Appliance, the company announced on Tuesday.

  • News: Study: AMD edges past Intel in retail PC sales

    Chip-making underdog AMD edged past Intel last month in supplying processors for the US retail PC market, according to a study by research firm Current Analysis Inc.

  • News: Microsoft displays its digital dream

    The idea of Microsoft some day decorating your home or business might be taking the software supertanker’s influence a bit too far. But the company has made a mock-up home, business and cafe as part of a marketing strategy to show its customers exactly how the technology it produces would really work if, say, someone actually used it.

  • 08 November 2005

  • News: Grokster shuts down

    P2P software vendor Grokster has closed down as part of a settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit brought against it by the US entertainment industry.

  • News: Disney acquires European mobile game content

    In a move to expand its mobile game content, the internet arm of Walt Disney has turned to Europe.

  • News: WSIS: UN has no plans to 'take over' the net

    United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, seeking to defuse a feud over internet governance ahead of a global summit next week, wrote in a newspaper column published on Saturday that no proposals exist to create a UN agency to take over the net.

  • News: Google launches downloadable mobile application

    Yesterday Google began offering a downloadable application that extends its Google Local service to some mobile phone users.

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