Overwork and burnout bowl over UK IT directors
News With 60-hour weeks the norm for many of Britain's IT leaders, is it any wonder that their personal and social lives are suffering?
Does publishing virus source codes help security?
Analysis Are Web sites that publish the source code of viruses and other exploits helping or hindering security efforts?
UK firms warn of increasing spam burden
News Businesses are braced for a steady rise in the amount of junk mail they must deal with, just months after the UK government declined to put corporate anti-spam protection into law
IBM lights a Candle under management software
News IBM has bought its long-term partner Candle as part of a move to boost its management software offering
What's holding back Wi-Fi?
Feature The potential of public wireless local area networks to ease the connection woes of mobile workers has been well documented but there are some very real obstacles that need to be overcome before...
Sony SDM-S204
Review Sony's SDM-S204 suffers from a lack of features and middling performance, making other, less expensive, displays a better value.
Wi-Fi trousers, edible phones and mobiles for lefties
News Those April Fools' stories in full...
Free Google email service to launch 'in weeks'
News The search-engine giant will invite 1,000 people to try out a free email service that allows a gigabyte of storage, but the service could be available to UK consumers within weeks, according to the...
Microsoft patches win industry trust
News Microsoft's patches are still too frequent and big, but they no longer break business applications to anything like the degree they used to, say users
Dell admits Indian mistake
News The PC maker has 'learnt its lesson' from customer complaints that forced it to bring some call-centre work back in-house after it had been outsourced to India
Korea, China, Japan start open-source collaboration
News The three tiger economies will meet on Saturday to work out how they will collaborate on developing their own open-source alternatives to Microsoft's Windows operating system
IBM to reveal Power's foundations
News The design process of IBM's Power processor will shift towards the open-source model, says the company
Gates reassures customers over security
News Microsoft is making real improvements to its software security, its chairman has said in a letter sent to customers
Stallman threatens boycott over Amazon cookie patent
News Amazon has won a patent that covers the customisation of Web pages using cookies, prompting free software advocate Richard Stallman to threaten a repeat of an earlier boycott
Competing authors pump up virus statistics
News Although NetSky was the more prolific worm last month, Bagle variants were not far behind, according to Sophos
Olympus DM-20 Conference Kit
Review The DM-20 Conference Kit would benefit anyone who needs to record, transcribe and archive meetings and conferences. However, its usability and functionality could be improved.
IDC predicts new dawn for tech
News A renaissance is underway in the technology industry, according to IDC, on the back of a 5 percent spending increase this year
Sun to match Red Hat pricing model
News Solaris will be available under subscription pricing, Sun has intimated, with customers paying per employee
File sharing legal - Canada
News Both downloading music and making it available for sharing are legal in Canada, a judge has ruled



