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27th April 2003 Archive

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  • Can Westminster really set up a WiFi zone in a month?

    Recipe for overload

    Wireless experts are deeply sceptical over leaked plans from Westminster council, London, to establish a blanket voice and data zone in the West End, particularly, the Soho area. Not just the time-scale is being questioned. The story, broken by The Register's Tony Smith, says that Westminster 4G is due to be rolled out next …

    Wireless 27 Apr 2003, 09:46

  • Rise of the Spam Zombies

    'Untraceable'

    Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies. "This is the newest delivery mechanism," …

    Security 27 Apr 2003, 09:56

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