Previous DayGovernment increases proposed jail terms for Web grooming
News Those who use the Internet to make contact with children before attempting to sexually abuse them could soon be jailed for up to a decade
Mac drive makers patch FireWire flaw
News Recent problems with some FireWire 800 drives when used with Panther have prompted some hard-drive makers to update their firmware
Dell takes Extreme approach to gaming market
News Several manufacturers are this week launching desktops running Intel's Extreme Edition Pentium 4 targeted at the gaming market
Firms encouraged to tap EU tech fund
News The government wants to ease UK companies' access to funding for innovative-technology research
When national security becomes secrecy
Comment The US government uses the cloak of national security to hide information that belongs in the public domain
Charity challenges programmers to code for society
News MySociety.org has launched a scheme to fund the kinds of IT projects normally overlooked by commercial software houses
Amazon limits full-text search
News Amazon.com's text-search service has been hobbled after an authors' group complained it could slash book sales
Technology adds to data mountain
News Rather than operating in high-tech paperless offices, businesses are increasingly finding that storage needs are growing
Does streaming media need standards?
Comment Television has grown to its ubiquitous state because of a common standard - without this to rally around, streaming media may never reach the same heights
IBM wants medium-sized customers
News IBM is reigniting its campaign to poach mid-sized business customers from Microsoft
Patent critics search for prior art
News Following Eolas' victory over Microsoft, the search has begun for 'prior art' to invalidate the case
Chip sales increase strongest since 1990
News Semiconductor sales are on track to hit 10 percent growth for the year, as consumers and businesses return to the PC market
SendMail to adopt Cloudmark's anti-spam tech
News Email handler SendMail will use Cloudmark's filtering tools in its mail-management software
HP iPAQ H4150
Review If you liked the slim form factor of the H1940 but were waiting for a device with built-in Wi-Fi, this is it.
HP fills gap in Itanium line
News Hewlett-Packard is releasing mid-range Itanium servers that contain eight and 16 of the Intel processors
UK firm targets Microsoft's home turf
News A small British software maker plans to market its office applications in the US, joining the crowd of low-cost Microsoft rivals
Microsoft sacks temp over blog photo
News As blogging becomes increasingly popular, businesses and employees need to be aware of the implications
Microsoft finds friends in time of need
Comment Microsoft's recent loss of a patent suit to Eolas has implications way beyond Redmond - and the software giant is finding that its troubles have won it new allies
Yahoo shuts up enterprise-software shop
News Yahoo is concentrating on consumer operations, meaning job losses as it closes its enterprise-software division
Mimail.c worm: Prevention and cure
Help/HowTo The latest variant of the Mimail worm has the potential to launch a denial of service attack if users click on the attachment, which promises 'private photos'
Vietnam opts for open source
News Vietnam's government wants to eliminate Microsoft's operating system to reduce demand for pirated software
'Private photos' worm could launch DoS attack
News A new email worm, Mimail.c, attempts to launch a denial of service attack from infected PCs
