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On the client side theres been a war raging between the Symbian alliance, comprising Psion, Nokia and Motorola among others, and Microsoft. Overall, this will probably turn out to be less important th

Gnutella was first introduced by Nullsoft in March 2000. If the name Nullsoft rings a bell, it may well be because it is also the creator of Winamp, the most popular software MP3 player on the Interne

Then the heavens fell in. In 1995, Bill Gates decided that the Internet was going to be huge. Everything had to take on an HTML nature and the battle was on with Netscape. One of the fir

The Techmart SOHO is the only system in this roundup to be supplied with a copy of Windows XP Home rather than XP Professional. This highlights Intermedia's emphasis on the small office, home office environment with this system, where the additional networking features of XP Pro aren't necessary. Even so, it does mean you'll be restricted to using a peer-to-peer network, and you'll need an upgrade if you ever want to set up a client-server system. For the extra $90, it might be worth future-proofing and upgrading to Pro.

Peer-to-peer networks - networks in which theres no central domain controller and all machines have equal status on the network - are the easiest approach for small installations of up to around ten m

By far the most common architecture today is Ethernet, which first appeared in 1975. Today its the de facto standard in almost every corporate network but there are other factors to consider, such as

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Leigh Dyer infuses a cheap standalone router with the power of Linux.

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Internet-enabled wireless clients are just one part of the picture. For mobile Internet to succeed, companies will need a strategy that also encompasses the network, infrastructure and content. In Feb

I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.

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Step one is to have a clear idea of what youre after (as well as how you expect the network to grow) starting with the number of users, or the number of client machines on the system. Weve based this

If theres one word guaranteed to make stockbrokers and share investors panic, it is Greenspan. As head of the US central bank, Dr Alan Greenspan controls Americas official interest rates. But why shou

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