Previous DayUK high street chain backs open source
News One of the largest recruitment consultancies in the UK is embracing open source to manage its documents
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Special Report ZDNet UK has exposed the massive charges levied by mobile phone operators on users who download data when abroad
Intel debuts dual-core MP Xeons
News New multiprocessor parts come sooner, go faster, please partners....
AOL co-founder steps down
News Steve Case has quit the Time Warner board, just as AOL appears to be gaining momentum
OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support
News The team behind OpenBSD, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday, claims the latest version contains 'significant improvements'
UK banks deny planning database of sacked staff
News Are British financial institutions considering sharing information about employees who were dismissed for abusing data?
Security products may miss malicious files
News A security reseacher says that several major antivirus products can be deceived into missing a piece of malware, but some vendors dispute the claim
The criminal costs of mobile data
Analysis Roaming Rip-Offs: Compared to the price of fixed broadband and Wi-Fi hotspots, the costs of GPRS and 3G roaming are ridiculously excessive
Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
News Roaming Rip-Offs: A British businessman was surprised to be charged £769 for using a 3G/GPRS datacard in France and Germany
£100 for an iTunes download: The real cost of roaming
News Roaming Rip-Offs: Mobile phone operators are stinging GPRS and 3G users with roaming charges of up to £20 a megabyte. That works out at up to £100 for a single iTunes download, and up to £5 just to...
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Leader Roaming Rip-Offs: Mobile data operators love high tariffs as much as users hate them. That's not a smart way to make money
'False alarms' delay Linux kernel release
News Version 2.6.14 of the Linux kernel is now available despite 'frustrating' delays due to mistaken bug reports, says Linus Torvalds
Dell profits slip off target
News Faulty components have contributed to the hardware firm's warning that its third-quarter profits will probably come in 40 percent lower than expected
Drowning in wireless spaghetti
Feature Unraveling the myriad wireless protocols and standards out there is enough to give anyone mental indigestion
Google resumes book scanning
News The search giant risks the wrath of the book publishing industry as it resumes its strategy of scanning 'the libraries of the world', with a new focus on out-of-print titles
Apple updates OS X
News The update means that Safari is the first browser to pass the Acid2 standards test, and encrypted messaging is easier
Fancy a $10m open source insurance policy?
News A underwriter based at Lloyd's of London is offering firms the chance to protect themselves against IP infringement
ID card bill could reach £30bn
News The cost of integrating the proposed ID card into the rest of government could be over five times higher than official estimates
Internet Explorer patent-violation appeal dismissed
News The US Supreme Court won't hear Microsoft's appeal against a $500m lawsuit that could force millions of Web pages to be redesigned
Qualcomm denies competition accusations
News Under fire from a number of major players in telecoms, the chipmaker has hit out at claims that its behaviour is anticompetitive
Google plans OpenOffice hires
News The search giant is committing itself further to open source with plans to hire people specifically to work on the open source productivity suite
Sony SDM-P234
Review The Sony SDM-P234 is a joy to behold unless you're watching a DVD or playing a game.
