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• Air traffic control glitch hits London

  An unspecified computer problem is causing major disruptions to air traffic in the south-east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports.

• MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan

  Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community.

• Significant gaps found in MS Exchange API docs

  Software companies that provide alternatives to Microsoft Exchange have reported "significant gaps" in the application programming interfaces (APIs) recently published by Microsoft for its volume server products.

• Lasers speed up hard drives by 10,000 percent

  Researchers in the Netherlands say they have come up with a way of using lasers to speed up magnetic hard drives -- and they expect to have a prototype by 2010.

• VMware Fusion beta for Macs goes public

  VMware has made available a public beta of its desktop product that lets Windows operating systems run in a virtualised environment on Mac OS X.

Features and Case Studies (7)

• Guide: Microsoft European draft licence

  The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence. We dissect its contents.

• The magic that makes Google tick

  Google's vice-president of engineering was in London this week to talk to potential recruits about just what lies behind that search page.

• Dell pulls out blades in Paris

  Dell has belatedly joined its competitors in offering own-design blade servers with the launch in Paris of the PowerEdge 1855.

• HP's 'adaptive enterprise' still murky for some

  Hewlett-Packard's introduction of the Darwin Reference Architecture at a customer event in Munich, Germany this week did little to help clients grapple with the elusive concept of the "adaptive enterprise."

• Bigger dose of tablet PCs on the way

  Poor battery life, slow processors and high costs slowed the uptake of tablet PCs but a new and more intuitive OS coupled with improved hardware could change all that. Additional reading: Mobile Computing Guide

Reviews (2)

• MS sets Windows 2003 release to manufacture date

  Microsoft has set March 12 as the release-to-manufacture date for the six new versions of its server operating system, paving the way for a shipping date of 29 April.

• Incredible shrinking PCs appear at LinuxExpo

  If a dictionary-sized PC is too big, how about one the size of a video cassette? Or a pack of playing cards?

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