Previous DayPatent office email bid to attract public comments
News The patent office hopes to improve patent quality by making it easier to comment on patent applications, but this could be of little use if the software patent directive is not changed
Bluetooth pioneers land engineering prize
News The champagne should be flowing at Cambridge Silicon Radio after the firm's top brass were rewarded for their wireless work
Oracle releases compliance software
News Brief: The database firm has launched Oracle Financial Consolidation Hub, aimed at helping large companies keep the right side of international compliance legislation
Red Hat readies directory server for release
News The product, formerly known as the Netscape Directory Server, will work with machines running a wide range of operating systems
CA opens up Unicenter
News The systems-management centre is getting an XML-centric rewrite, and an SME-specific version has been promised
Dell executives get pay boost
News Kevin Rollins leads the way with a 17 percent raise, meaning is now earning just under $3m a year
Sun's fighting chance
Leader The struggling server specialist has announced one of the industry's biggest ever acquisitions, with its purchase of StorageTek, but opinion is divided on wherther it will be enough to guarantee...
Anti-Spyware Coalition to define terms
News A new group aims to clear up confusion over spyware and adware, and help end the problem of different anti-spyware tools flagging perceived threats in different ways
The folly of single sign-on
Analysis Is the goal of a unified single sign-on the online equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket? We look at the arguments
Google Sitemaps offer fast track to indexing
News Google Sitemaps lets Webmasters tell Google about all the pages on their Web site, rather than leaving it to Web crawlers to find them
What did Einstein ever do for us?
Feature It's been a hundred years since Einstein turned the world of physics on its head. We look at what impact he's had since then generally, and on tech especially
Citrix to buy NetScaler for $300m
News Citrix plans to tie NetScaler's traffic compression and balancing technology into its own line of software
CA launches consumer anti-spam service
News Brief: Computer Associates has announced plans to start selling anti-spam software tailored for home PCs
McAfee confirms Wireless Security buy
News The $20m buy paves the way for Wireless Security's technology to be bundled with McAfee's core products
EMC tightens its grip on the storage crown
News Stealing more market share from HP and boosted by its midrange offerings, EMC's growth has outpaced the storage market once again
Podcasts are go for Thunderbird 1.1
News The next version of the Mozilla Foundation's open source email client will have built-in podcasting support and anti-phishing features
MSN Korea hacked
News Microsoft was forced to take its Korean portal offline after an attack directed at its news section put users at risk
CA to republish five years of financial statements
News Invalid contracts negotiated by former Computer Associates exectutives have come back to haunt the company
Intel details dual-core notebook chip
News Yonah, the successor to the Pentium M, will have 'crazy' performance gains, according to Intel, but won't be 64-bit
EU unveils plan to 'seize the initiative' for IT
News Massive increases in budgets for IT research, as well as concrete targets on broadband access, for part of Europe's plan for economic growth over the next five years
