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  • P2P gets jury of its peers

    Do you have P2P jitters? Is all the talk about peer-to-peer sending frigid, lack-of-control, lack-of-security, lack-of-standards shivers down your spine?

  • Have you been hijacked on the chat highway?

    Flaws in the server used to sign up for AOL's Instant Messenger give hackers a way to steal other users' names. But you can protect yourself.

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    Executives under arrest, charging for e-mail, rogue staff, e-mail spoofing, spyware: it's all here in your first raft of questions to our panel of experts. Additional reading: Beat malware with Firefox, others

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    Tim Harvey, CIO of Hilton Hotels, tells of technologies that will turn hotel rooms into "homes away from home".

  • Wireless: Bigger may not be better

    Find out four tips for making sure your network footprint stays secure as it grows.

  • No Microsoft dinosaur

    Nathan Myhrvold is looking for a few smart people to conjure up new ideas and profitable patents. What's wrong with that?

  • ILM: Getting intimate with data

    ILM is the future of storage (or so we're told). But what is it? How do you get it? The details may still be a bit sketchy but that doesn't necessarily mean you can afford to put considerations to the side.

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  • MP3 for an older kind of highway

    Want to take your MP3 tunes on the road without the hassle of connecting a portable player to your car stereo? Kenwood's KDC-MP7018 is a medium-range, in-dash CD player that also plays MP3 files recorded on CD-R/RW discs.

  • Next Big Thing: Pinpoint GPS

    The Global Positioning System (GPS), with its magical ability to tell you your location, has become an important part of our business and recreational activities. With the flick of a switch in May, the US government instantly made it about ten times more accurate. Is it finally ready for prime-time?

  • Apple's new UFO-like device lands

    When the first UFO-shaped AirPort Base Station landed in stores, it was part of the wireless networking vanguard.

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