Previous DayBT cuts rural broadband fees
News A product aimed at bringing broadband to the most remote rural areas gets a steep price cut, with much of the cost shifted to monthly payments
War on spam turns to open proxies
News The Exploits Block List at Spamhaus will let companies crack down on open proxies that let spam through, as well as on other popular spam exploits
Locking the desktop in the filing cabinet
Special Report Where blades fit in the desktop to thin-client continuum
How to blow a billion - or two
Comment Was Sun's $2.2bn acquisition of Cobalt Networks the worst deal in the history of IT? Sun would have more left over if it had spent the money on footprints in the sand
Technology brands enter baby-naming lexicon
Comment Will Pentium, Intel or Siemens be born in a hospital near you this year?
New Year rings in more worms
News Jitux has begun to spread through MSN Messenger, while Quis wreaks Christmas-themed mayhem on Windows PCs
Sun hands Cobalt an open-source lifeline
News Cobalt devotees were given a Christmas present by Sun Microsystems, it has emerged: source code for the user interface and back-end custom code for the server appliances
Barclays: No Linux on desktops for now
Interview The chief technology officer of one of Britain's largest banks talks about how he made it to the top, and how Barclays is facing the challenges of technical innovation and corporate governance...
Net users bypass browser
News Most people accessing the Internet do so via media players and instant-messaging applications, according to new figures
Gadgets 'new must-have of 2004' - music boss
News This year will see portable music players achieve ubiquity, according to the chief executive of an Australian digital-music firm
Auto marketplace calls time on auction arm
News The struggling online marketplace plans to sell its auction-services operation
Indian giant backs RFID
News Services firm Infosys has thrown its support behind the controversial tracking technology
Rambus benefits from rival's woes
News Speculation on a settlement between memory maker Micron and federal investigators has boosted shares of rival Rambus
