Topic: COMPUTER - on November 5, 2003 at 11:26:59 AM CET
Sony details new handheld, iPod rival
Sony on Tuesday detailed plans for a much-anticipated, all-in-one handheld gaming device that includes a digital music and video player and could even act as mobile telephone.
Officials of the world's largest consumer electronics maker also said Sony would launch a rival to Apple Computer's iPod digital music player next year for as little as $60.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2003 at 10:23:03 PM CET
Red Hat pulls plugs on Red Hat Linux product line
Red Hat yesterday unveiled its answer to the vexed question of what it should do about its consumer line - dump it. This is not quite how CEO Matthew Szulik put it to The Register over lunch yesterday, nor indeed did he say flat out 'oh, by the way, we're shooting the Red Hat Linux distribution when North Carolina wakes up, bye now,' but that is indeed what the company did.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2003 at 9:58:14 PM CET
Japan team claims Net speed record
A research team from Japan claims to have achieved the world record speed in data transmission using Internet protocols.
The team, comprising scientists from Keio University and divisions of Japan's largest telcoms firm NTT, achieved a speed of 43 gigabits per second over an optical network between two campuses of Keio several kilometers apart.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2003 at 6:42:03 PM CET
Press conference Novell to Acquire SUSE LINUX
Thank you for your interest in the press conference about Novell's announcement of the agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX.
The conference was broadcast originally at 11 a.m. EST (5 p.m. CET) on November 4th, 2003.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2003 at 6:23:13 PM CET
Novell übernimmt Suse Linux
Der US-Softwarekonzern Novell übernimmt die Nürnberger Suse Linux AG für 210 Millionen USD [181 Mio. Euro].
Das teilten beide Unternehmen in Provo [US-Bundesstaat Utah] am Dienstag vor Öffnung der US-Börsen mit.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2003 at 6:19:29 PM CET
Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company
SUSE LINUX
PROVO, Utah, 11/04/2003
* Novell expands its open source commitment and will become the first to offer comprehensive Linux solutions for the enterprise from the desktop to the server
* Novell will be the only $1 billion software company with a Linux distribution and the worldwide technical staff to support it. <P></P><CENTER>
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 3, 2003 at 2:43:17 PM CET
Website listet Cafés mit kostenlosem W-LAN-Zugang
Die Verbreitung von kostenfreien drahtlosen Internet-Zugängen in deutschen Cafés und Hotels möchten die Betreiber der Website Stadtnet-WLAN.de fördern. Auf der Homepage findet der mit W-LAN-Adapter ausgerüstete Notebook- oder PDA-Besitzer eine Liste mit Gratis-Funknetzen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 2, 2003 at 6:02:42 PM CET
Apache HTTP Server for Unix 2.0.48
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since 1996. The Apache project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for various modern desktop and server operating systems, such as UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 29, 2003 at 11:11:15 AM CET
Full-featured PC fits in pocket
A full-featured PC that is small enough to slip into a shirt pocket is being hailed by its makers as the world's first modular computer. The machine can perform as both a PC and a handheld computer, but it remains to be seen if consumers are willing to pay for such a hybrid device.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 28, 2003 at 4:44:38 PM CET
The Panther Roars (in Pain)
How do you waste an unseasonably warm and beautiful weekend in San Francisco in late October?
The answer is: by attempting to install Apple's newest version of OS X, better known as Panther, on Friday night without first backing up the machine.
Then, when it all goes horribly wrong, spending the better part of the next 48 hours in a musty, airless office trying to save irreplaceable files while sane, well-adjusted people are out enjoying the sun.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 28, 2003 at 2:19:35 PM CET
Net's dark side dents broadband
People are so fed up with spam, porn and viruses that they are put off high-speed broadband, says a study.
The telecoms industry could do more to help users avoid the "dark side" of the net and pitfalls, says the study by think tank the Work Foundation.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 28, 2003 at 1:36:15 PM CET
Microsoft Puts DRM into Office
This "Information Rights Management" scheme in the latest Microsoft Office will have some value for paranoid corporate types. For the rest of us it's an absolute disaster, and we should resist.
This is digital restrictions management (DRM), and Microsoft is using it to accomplish two goals. The first is to continue down the path it has followed so ardently in recent years, taking away customers' control of what they've purchased and keeping it in the hands of the companies selling it.
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