Sun Microsystems eclipses Purple Sun
News A Welsh network service company has been forced to spend £70,000 on rebranding after Sun objected to its name - Purple Sun
Firefox 1.5 'smashes' 1.0 download stats
News Demand for the latest version of the open source browser is 'greatly exceeding' last year's release of Firefox 1.0, according to Mozilla
Cabinet Office hit by Web site outage
News The Cabinet Office's Web presence has been disrupted over the last two days after routine maintenance went wrong
Microsoft insists its monopolistic days are over
News Despite 'unacceptable' recent plans surrounding Windows media player, the convicted monopolist has insisted to the US judge monitoring it that it is now fully antitrust compliant
GPL 3 plans unveiled
News An updated version of the free software license will be completed in less than 18 months, and may tackle problems such as DRM, software patents and internationalisation
Five steps to a safer e-Britain
Leader MPs who think a cybercrime tsar would make us safer online should address a few problems closer to home first
Email 'crucial' to desktop Linux's future
News Research from the Open Source Development Labs has found that the take-up of open source on the desktop could falter unless email applications improve
Microsoft advances testing of Hotmail replacement
News A new beta of Windows Live Mail has been released by the software giant, in an attempt to bring Outlook-like features to Web mail
Sun details expanded open source plans
News Sun is starting to follow through on Jonathan Schwartz' offer of open sourcing all of Sun's software
RIM loses ground in patent dispute
News The BlackBerry service looks to be in greater danger than ever of being shut down in the US over a long-running patent dispute
BT users suffer random outages
News Server failures have hit those using BT's broadband offerings
Apple patches critical OS X security flaws
News Secunia has rated Apple's updates to Safari, Apache and other apps as 'highly critical'
Sober climbs November worm charts
News Emails impersonating global law enforcement and promising lascivious videos have put Sober back on the map
Trojan exploits unpatched IE flaw
News Following on from exploit code last week, hackers are now taking over computers using an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer



