Domain deregulation -- It's buyer beware in the new world of Internet domain deregulation.

Fast data phones -- New cellular phones can connect wirelessly to the Internet at speeds of up to 144 Kbps

Office XP launched -- Microsoft has launched the successor to Office 2000. The new version is called Office XP.

Sulfnbk.exe virus hoax -- If you get an e-mail warning you about an infected Windows file, chances are its another virus hoax.

Car tech: There are no flying cars here in yesterday's future, but drivers this decade are in for a wired ride as new technologies revolutionize the driving experience.

Digital signatures: Toss out your pen and ink, because legislation to make digital signatures legal has passed in the US and is working its way across Canada in provincial legislatures. It promises to change the world we live in.

A buffet of gadgets: The latest crop of devices shown this year at the Consumer Electronics Show will sate even the most diehard gadget fan.

The future of chip technologies -- Gordon Moore figures days are numbered for his famous chip speed doubling law. Though perhaps silicon microprocessors will eventually be replaced by bio-chips, molecular chips and other new and wild technologies.

Handheld computer predictions for 2001 -- Andy Walker's brush with supermodel Claudia Schiffer has something in common with wireless handheld computers.

Bluetooth devices to appear by end of 2000

We'll all be using Bluetooth wireless devices in the coming years. Some of us will start using them by year-end.

Tech sector hungry for small business dollars
Technology is big business at small companies and software and hardware makers want a piece of the market.

Intel to make web appliances
The giant chip maker turns to Net set top boxes without a Microsoft operating system

OS by another name: Pocket PC
Microsoft has dumped the Windows CD OS for palm-sized devices and dubbed the new operating system Pocket PC.

Inside Intel
Paranoid reigns supreme at the chipmaker along with an odd culture that has its root in the personalities of its founders.

Paperless office that never was
We're using more paper than ever. The culprit? Technology.

Canadian e-commerce gets its share
Canadian e-businesses are starting to reap more on-line dollars from Canadian shoppers.

New browser for Microsoft micro-devices
The next Microsoft web browser has shrunk in size, won't run on a
conventional PC and excludes Java support.

Backward Italy embraces cellular phones
The diminutive cell phone, not the Internet, is the catalyst that is driving Italy toward the electronic age. Everywhere you look in Italy, children, adults and even seniors, gathered to chat in the piazzas, are talking on the devices.

Tivoli comes out of obscurity
Innovation by a company unknown to consumers and obscure to all but hardcore system administration circles is about to make life easier for those technically inept and disinterested.

Intel to roll out web appliances
In an effort to shed its status as a chip maker, Intel plans a world-wide roll-out this summer of a yet-to-be-named integrated Internet and computing appliance for the home.

Excite.ca launches in Canada
A Canadian version of Excite, the highly successful U.S. search engine, launched on the Internet as Excite.ca on March 7, 2000


Your home computer is a new playground for hackers
The arrival of broadband Internet access has opened up a new playground for hackers: home computers. "There is software available on the Net that makes it easy for hackers to probe thousands of hosts and, if file sharing is on, they will find you and compromise you," said X-Force director Chris Rouland. X-Force is a team of security experts that research the latest technology security vulnerabilities and threats for Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems. The threat is not new, but with consumer adoption of always-on connection technologies, more home computers are potential targets.

Pop-up ad killers proliferate
While Web advertising agencies say pop-up Web ads are frequently clicked, anti-advertising software is proliferating on the Internet.
Christopher Parente, VP corporate communications, at Advertising.com, said the ads which appear in a new window when a user arrives at a web site, "get very high click-through rates. Customers are ambivalent. They might say they don't like them but they click on them." 

Techno-tips to win over your Valentine
If you think your sweetheart will be spending too much time in front of the computer this Valentine's Day, or if you just want to put a little zing in your love life, here's 10 Techno Love Tips you can follow to make the love of your life turn off the technology and turn on to you.

War in the palm of your hand
The operating system wars are heating up again, but this time it's not on your desktop, but in the palm of your hand. Hand-size computing devices are arriving in the mainstream after several years of struggling to be recognized as anything but electronic day-timers.  Fueling the handheld evolution is price reductions, marketing efforts by technology companies to get the devices into the hands of corporate workers and affordable wireless technology that will allow access to the Internet over the airwaves. 

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