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  • Wireless card brings Bluetooth and Wi-Fi together

    Wireless standards 802.11b and Bluetooth can interfere with each other, but a new card from Intersil and Silicon Wave claims to iron out their differences.

  • Tech doomsayers proven wrong

    Despite poor investing times in the wake of the dot-com crash, an Australian venture capital firm has defied the odds and raised AU$144.4 million to invest in local information technology and communication companies.

  • Name Grab

    Cybersquatters, once a mere nuisance, now can go to prison in the US for violating your trademark. An obscure case between Quokka Sports and two New Zealand-based companies was to be the first test.

  • An Interface of a Different Colour

    Windows 2000's user interface isn't very different from Windows NT 4's, but I did see one interface upgrade recently that's a big departure from the past

  • Y2K cookoo clocks

    What a crock. After listening to all the doomsayers and "what-if" mavens promoting their dubious Y2K agendas, we found that nothing came of the Y2K crisis. I'm reminded of the ludicrous hype surrounding the comet Kahoutek in the early 1970s. It was going to be bigger than Halley's Comet; its dust was going to choke the atmosphere; it was going to be the fireworks display of the ages. Then it came and went without even being visible. It was a non-event, just like Y2K.

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  • Age has not wearied them

    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

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