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I have the usual high-priced software on my computer, but it's the free stuff that really helps make sitting before a screen for long periods a bit more tolerable. I've just recently tested out Download Accelerator, and I'm now using it to replace Go...

The Denver-based Privacy Foundation has issued a warning against what is being called "e-mail wiretapping'', a method of surveillance which allows people who sent you an e-mail to secretly receive copies of replies and forwarded messages that are mad...

Don't weep now, but Cambridge University's famous Trojan Room coffee pot webcam is going offline. The university's computer laboratory is moving to a new building to the west of Cambridge later this year. The webcam will no longer be needed to tell s...

immediately? Why as an electronic book downloaded as a PDF file off the Internet of course. Living in France and being able to find a lot of books in English by a wide variety of authors is reassuring to me, even though, well, I just don't have time ...

Anyone who has a laptop, cell phone or a digital camera probably knows what it is like to run out of juice when performing a major task on the computer, making that important call, or taking that award-winning snapshot. I happen to have two laptop ba...

As reported last week in The Royal Gazette , Cable & Wireless is playing hardball with members of the eastern Caribbean states by announcing plans to leave St. Lucia when its existing monopoly licence expires on March 31, 2001. "Cable & Wireless will...

Here's a game I know some people in Bermuda -- especially those of my scuba diving friends who can always find the sunken ship -- will thoroughly enjoy. It's called `Geocaching', and requires a pretty accurate global positioning satellite (GPS) devic...

In the computing world, 2001 began in a rather chaotic manner -- with the four-day outage of key Microsoft servers last week, which shut down important Microsoft sites, including Hotmail. It didn't help matters that after that problem was fixed, anot...

Bermuda-based Mediconsult.com has been hit hard by the crash of new technology sector stocks and has been in a struggle to survive for the past year, until it found a buyout partner two weeks ago. Under the agreement Mediconsult's operations will be ...

Reading the trade magazines on computers and the Internet sometimes involves learning a whole set of new words to describe various activities. `IRC Attack Linked to DoS Threat' a Wired magazine story on January 12 proclaimed. In the story a techie --...