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    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

  • Firefox add-on lets surfers tweak sites, but is it safe?

    A new Firefox extension that lets people customise their experience of the sites they visit is stirring excitement among Web surfers and consternation among security experts.

  • Web services: Security nightmare?

    StreamTone CEO Ravi Razdan warns that in its rush to embrace Web services, the computer industry is unknowingly inviting hackers to waltz through gaping structural holes.

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  • Web services: Security nightmare?

    StreamTone CEO Ravi Razdan warns that in its rush to embrace Web services, the computer industry is unknowingly inviting hackers to waltz through gaping structural holes.

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    IBM Managing Director and CEO Philip Bullock takes the hot seat to field questions regarding Web services, Grid computing, and where IBM Australia is headed.

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