Previous DayFriday: A sticky wicket
Blog Friday 4/7/2003The ZDNet UK office is mad about sport. Man, woman, manager: the lot of 'em. Except me. With the solitary exception of croquet, there's nothing in the bundling of a ball across...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment Make money from the EU! Design new mobile phones! The next revolution in case modding! The Christian way of file sharing! All this and indoor cricket too? Just another week with Rupert.
The new Office applications on the block
Feature Microsoft has added smart client InfoPath and organiser OneNote to Office 2003
IT staff face bleak outlook
News After a brief upswing earlier this year, salaries have dropped and redundancies are on the rise
Firms warned on employee music piracy
News Companies allowing workers to download illegal MP3s risk lawsuits as the recording industry begins a crackdown on piracy, analysts says
Desperate workers scramble for internships
News Once the preserve of eager students, internships have become hotly contested by former chief executives in post-boom Silicon Valley
Disable Microsoft Messenger Service in Windows XP
Feature Windows Messenger Service can be useful, but it's also a channel for spammers and hackers to hit your computer. Here's how to disable it, and what consequences follow
Rural-broadband campaigners sell out in the City
News Next week's sellout broadband conference may have some of the answers on how to speed up the rollout of high-speed Internet across Britain
UK laws may help spammers look legit
News British politicians have been urged to lobby their US counterparts to prevent the meltdown of the Internet
Spam: Out of the frying pan, into the fire
News With spam reaching critical levels and still on the increase, the issue has rocketed to the top of the political agenda, but the government's best efforts might not have much of an impact on the...
Radio silence betrays industry secrets
Comment Rupert Goodwins: Designers tell us how good their processors are, and could do the same with their wireless chips. So why don't they?
Ebay software pirate faces sentence at the Old Bailey
News A student who has pleaded guilty to selling illegal copies of software on Internet auction sites will be sentenced at the Old Bailey today
Pakistan to curb porn with free filtering software
News Pakistan plans to give away content-blocking software to stop its one million Internet users downloading pornography
Hacking contest 'just hype'
News Security experts say warnings of Web site defacement this weekend come from 'random loudmouths'
Hackers release Xbox tool despite Microsoft threats
News A group of hackers claims to have publicly posted software that defeats all Xbox security measures, after failing to win concessions from Microsoft
Bad debtors can still switch mobile providers
News US mobile-phone users can take their number to a new telecommunications company even if they are behind on their bill, authorities say
Deadline extended for selling PeopleSoft shares
News Oracle has given PeopleSoft shareholders another two weeks to accept its takeover bid
Oracle faces big bills in buying PeopleSoft
News PeopleSoft's new customer guarantees pose a multimillion-dollar problem for would-be acquirers
IBM ThinkPad X31
Review The ultraportable ThinkPad X31 provides a depth of features in a compact format that's suitable for serious travellers.
