Previous DayMicrosoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba
News 'Monstrous' royalties demanded under Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence will discourage competition, says Samba's Jeremy Allison
BT lays path to faster broadband
News 8Mbps ADSL services will soon be on offer from BT across much of the UK
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 04/2/2005 Over in the US, auction house Christie's is having a sale of computer documentation. Not old copies of MS-DOS 2.1 manuals, though -- it'll be thirty years before they become...
Linux: The forking fight-back
Feature Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories banded about by critics of open source
CA talks the open source talk
Feature But can it walk the walk? Computer Associates' chief technology officer is adamant it already is but some analysts aren't so sure
UK misses out in HP-Mandrakesoft tie-up
News HP France is offering support for Mandrakesoft Linux on its servers
Government IT 'unfairly slated'
News The former head of the Office of Government Commerce has told a parliamentary committee that, contrary to the impression often created by the media, the UK public sector is running successful IT...
Firefox moves on the enterprise
News A commercial support partner for Firefox is to be unveiled within weeks, as the Mozilla Foundation prepares for a push into the enterprise space in 2005
Email meltdown claims slammed
News Although ISPs have confirmed experiencing problems with a dangerous spamming trick reported by Spamhaus, anti-spam vendors say it's all hype
Computer Aid gives 40,000 PCs a fresh start
News Over £2m worth of computer equipment has now been refurbished by Computer Aid for organisations in the developing world
Patent Office wants debate on software directive
News Software firms and developers have the chance to influence UK Patent Office policy and change its understanding of 'technical contributions'
Tomorrow never comes for BT
Leader Some things always happen tomorrow. BT's break-up should not be one of these
Malware: Do you know your enemy?
Feature If you don't, you're not alone. Critics also say that software designed to remove malware is confusing the issue further
Kazaa a 'blight on users' machines'
News Sharman Networks' CTO has admitted, in an internal memo, that Kazaa will noticeably slow down users' machines and affect other activities
'Huge security hole' in .Net
News Builder: The creator of Java has lambasted Microsoft for 'a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks through' in .Net
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
News Holographic storage standards for optical disks are being mooted in Japan, with the aim being a disk that can store 1TB of data and be written at a rate of 1Gbps
AvantGo 2005
Review AvantGo makes handheld Web surfing simple, and it doesn't cost a thing. Need we say more?
Saddam used as worm lure
News Users are spreading a mass-mailing worm by opening attachments which claim to be pictures of the deposed leader's corpse
Sun plans trading floor for computing power
News Sun has released details of its ambitions for selling computing power on its newly announced Grid as a commodity in an open-air market
Microsoft to fix flaws across the board
News Nine fixes for Windows and fixes for applications from Visual Studio to MSN Messenger will be released next week
