Sitting in techie heaven
Q&A As the head of SRI, Curt Carlson has an unusually informed spot from which to predict the future
Spammers take aim at HR departments
News Recruitment consultancies and HR departments have become more attractive targets for spammers, while organisations dealing with valuable intellectual property remain the most popular targets
Portland looks to unite Linux GUIs
News LinuxWorld: OSDL coders are looking to solve one of Linux's greatest problems for developers: the battle between GNOME and KDE
EC calls for roaming input
News Roaming Rip-Offs: Do you want to see something done about European mobile roaming rates, or do you think operators should have the right to charge whatever they want? The EC wants to hear from you...
Cisco reaches high with new switches
News A 528-port storage fabric switch marks the new high-end for Cisco, which has also launched a 10Gbps module for linking SANs together
Cybercriminals get stuck into honeypots
News Criminal gangs are attempting to prevent antivirus firms from developing protection against the latest threats, as well as attacking each other, warns Kaspersky Labs
Negroponte: 'Software is too fat'
News LinuxWorld: Bloated software is a growing menace and Linux is no exception, says the founder of the One Laptop Per Child project
Pipex gets $25m for UK WiMax networks
News The cash from Intel Capital will be used to get high-speed wireless networks running in London and Manchester by the end of 2007, with six more sites pencilled in for 2008
Photos: Recycling the mobile mountain
Photo A biodegradable phone cover with a sunflower built into it and a circuit board made of pasta are just some of the techniques being employed to make mobile phones greener
Microsoft makes intelligent acquisition
News Brief: ProClarity should help the software giant's business intelligence strategy along
Novell prepares SuSE 10.1
News Brief: A developer version is available for download now, and a consumer bundle is expected in the very near future
Hard-drive makers look to the middle ground
News Drives which hold more than the tiniest consumer drives, but aren't as bulky or noisy as the ones in your PC could be on the way as drive makers face up to the menace of flash
NTL's takeover of Virgin Mobile is agreed
News The cable operator is paying nearly £1bn to build a quadruple-play telecoms offering, and the right to rebrand under the Virgin name
Intel makes 1Gb flash step
News Some time in the next three months Intel will be selling its first 65nm NOR flash chips, and they're going to be big
$3m card trick baffles hosting firms
News Millions of dollars were charged using stolen credit card information to one payment-processing firm on Sunday morning

