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Tuesday 30th October 2001

And also today (30-October-2001), for the record... 5:27PM, Tuesday 30th October 2001

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories.

IP mobility Cisco Systems has announced the availability of Cisco Mobile Networks, which supports the use of Mobile IP. It is designed to allow a Cisco router - together with its network of connected IP devices - to roam across network boundaries and connection types. This can support a mobile LAN with an 'always on' connection to the Internet, letting end-users stay connected even during long periods on the move. 'With Cisco Mobile Networks, Cisco is accelerating the creation of an IP-based ubiquitous wireless Internet,' states Joel Bion, a VP of the IP Technologies Division. 'Combined



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with Cisco's Wireless LAN and PSDN products, this new Mobile IP functionality provides a comprehensive, end-to-end IP mobility solution.' [more...]

Amaya 5.2 The World Wide Web consortium has updated Amaya, its standards-conforming browser-cum-testing tool. Version 5.2 has a number of HTML and CSS related bug-fixes, more support for XML, and a number of UI tweaks. [more...]

MSN reopens for 'unknown' browsers Microsoft has officially restored access to the MSN.com Web portal for users of less common Internet browsers, such as Opera. It has issued a statement explaining the reasons for the problem: 'After receiving complaints from people who reported problems accessing the site, we looked into this issue further and determined that we had wrongly classified some browsers as "unknown" This classification is normally reserved for very old browsers which are known to not work on MSN.com. We have now fixed this problem.'