Google fights for top spot
Google is planning to go public, but Yahoo and Microsoft are planning to knock it off its search perch.
Guardian Online

Clash of the Titans
Sony Ericsson P900 v XDA2. Which is best, the phone that includes an organizer or the organizer than includes a phone?
Guardian Online

Portable memory devices: we've moved on from floppies....
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Guardian Online

The keys to productivity: learn some combos, speed up your work, and reduce the risk of RSI.
Schofield column
Guardian Online

Getting your PC to fetch the correct time. Accessing sites that redirect you to a different country -- inlcuding the Microsoft Update site. The Thumbs.db file in Windows XP. Backchat: more on sending video clips and controlling Windows start-up programs.
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The passage of call centre jobs to India is causing alarm in the UK, but IT companies operate in a global market that depends on free trade. And India also represents a huge potential market....
Computer Weekly

On the up PC sales are stronger than predicted. Reasons include: the move towards notebook PCs; the battle between Dell and Hewlett-Packard; the fact that PCs bought to avoid Year 2000 problem are slow by today's standards; and the success of Microsoft Windows XP.
Schofield column
Guardian Online


Sending video clips to the grandchildren (or anybody else). What to do when you have lost your web-site address (because you forgot to pay to renew it). The end of support for Windows 98. More ways to access data when you're away.
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US risks losing software business
Andy Grove told the Global Tech Summit in Washington, DC that it was National Depression Screening Day, and "I'm here to be the skunk at your garden party". The software industry could follow the steel and other industries overseas....
Schofield column
Guardian Online

Your installation of Windows is getting clogged up with resource-grabbing apps and parasites or just suffering from bit-rot. Here are some things you can try, up to a complete re-installation.
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