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  • Google's desktop bet

    Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.

  • What next for the Internet?

    Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.

  • Governments vote against Microsoft

    Microsoft has had its share of bad courtroom experiences, but lately the software giant has been taking some of its hardest knocks in city council and legislative chambers.

  • Electronic paper: just a pipe ream?

    The dream of the paperless office is as far away as it ever was, or at least that's what printer vendors will tell you. But electronic documents are making serious inroads into their dead-tree rivals.

  • Microsoft offers last Windows XP test

    Microsoft is preparing to clear an important hurdle for delivering Windows XP, but outside forces still could trip up the new operating system.

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  • Google's desktop bet

    Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.

  • Software firms favour e-forms

    Electronic-forms projects are the software world's flavour of the month, with Microsoft, Adobe and others attempting to simplify electronic business transactions.

  • What next for the Internet?

    Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.

  • BT bets on open development

    BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?

  • Google: Gunning for desktop space

    In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.

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  • What next for the Internet?

    Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

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