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  • Trojan Horse Christmas

    Column That shiny new Windows PC

    My wife Denise is really a brilliant woman, probably the smartest person I know. Earlier this year, we went to see the movie Troy, about, obviously, the Trojan War. At the end of the movie, just in line with the world famous story, the Trojans find an enormous wooden horse on the beach and, after some discussion, drag it into …

    Security 31 Dec 2004, 14:52

  • Processors and semiconductors

    2004 in review Market booms, busts - all in one year

    2004 was a year of two distinct halves for the semiconductor industry, the first characterised by boom, the latter not so much bust as a vaguely downward slide. Final figures are not yet in for the last months of the year, but the start of the second half showed a clear decline. This prompted numerous revisions of forecasts made …

    System Builder 31 Dec 2004, 15:03

  • IBM hands Lenovo billion-dollar PC loser

    New filing shows failings

    IBM sold Lenovo a real clunker of a PC business, according to a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the filing, IBM revealed that its PC business has been a huge money loser over the past three years. The PC unit lost a staggering $397m in 2001, $171m in 2002, $258m in 2003 and $139m through the …

    PCs 31 Dec 2004, 19:14

  • Firm gives P2P networks adware infection

    Microsoft investigating DRM loophole

    Not content with poisoning P2P networks with fake music files, an ally of the big media companies has decided to lob pop-ups and adware at users, according to research done by reporters at PC World. Overpeer grabbed headlines in 2002 for its work infecting P2P networks with garbled music at the behest of some major music labels …

    Media 31 Dec 2004, 21:11

  • Oracle sends pesky PeopleSoft brass packing

    Thanks for the memories

    Oracle has canned four PeopleSoft executives, including the company's CFO, as it marches on with the $10.3bn acquisition. Oracle whacked PeopleSoft CFO Kevin Parker, co-president W. Phillip Wilmington, chief marketing officer Nanci Caldwell and general counsel James Shaughnessy. These moves, revealed in a PeopleSoft filing with …

    Financial News 31 Dec 2004, 22:55

  • BitTorrent hub ready to rumble with Hollywood

    'Help our legal team help you'

    A brave BitTorrent server operator has decided to pick a fight with the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and is asking for donations to help it mount a legal defense against the movie studios. LokiTorrent is one of the numerous BitTorrent hubs being sued by the MPAA for pointing users to copyrighted films. A number …

    Media 31 Dec 2004, 23:28