Previous DayDialogue Box - That Tricky Second Episode
Blog Oops, we did it again. Dialogue Box Two - Dialogue Harder is now up and available for your viewing delight. It's particularly interesting if you've ever asked yourself "Self, what would happen...
One on the wrist
Blog The human wrist is a dangerous place. Company after company has tried to use it as a platform for personal high technology - HP, Intel, Microsoft - and company after company has failed. In...
X marks the chip
Blog Remember the Transputer? Probably not - unless you were involved on the technical side of the UK IT industry in the 1980s. The Transputer was a UK-designed processor intended to be used in parallel...
Adobe brings Flash to LiveCycle Enterprise Suite
News Company's revamped document management and work-flow server gives customers the choice between PDF and Flash front ends
Private-equity firm buys into Palm
News Elevation Partners invests $325m in the struggling maker of handhelds and adds a former Apple executive to Palm's board
Brocade moves into HBA market
News As well as good quarterly results, company has announced its move into the host bus adapter and intelligent server adapter markets
Web hacks using 'evasive' techniques
News Finjan has released a report warning of malicious websites that restrict user access to avoid detection
Microsoft teams up with Linux distributor Xandros
News Technical and legal pact calls for product interoperability and legal protection for common customers
Orange takes flak over data cap
News One month since Orange's 'flat-rate' data bundles were announced, customers have grown angry as it has emerged that there is a 30MB usage cap
HP says no to Intel's Turbo Memory
News Company says its notebooks will not include Intel's flash memory module, claiming users would do better to increase their RAM or use external media
Chinese lawyer to take Symantec to court over XP file deletion
Blog A Chinese lawyer has begun court proceedings against Symantec, alleging that a faulty antivirus update caused his computer to collapse. According to China View, Liu Shihui, a lawyer with the...
Photos: Unfolding OpenStreetMap
Photo Images taken from the open-source application illustrate how information is collated to create a detailed map of an area
Correction of the week (so far)
Blog Every now and again, we hacks have to change a detail in a story - a necessary evil because you, our reader, are more important than our pride. But sometimes that clarification ends up highlighting...
Spam surges hurt SMEs
News According to messaging security firm MessageLabs, small businesses' mail servers are in danger of spam overload
Buyer's Guide: Santa Rosa notebooks
Buyer's Guide Which is our current favourite Intel Santa Rosa notebook? Check our Buyer's Guide to find out — and keep checking back to see if it changes.
Panasonic and General Dynamics launch rugged PCs
News GoBook MR-1 claims to be the smallest fully rugged ultramobile PC, while Panasonic's latest ToughBook is semi-rugged but drop- and spill-proof
Stallman touts GPLv3 provisions
News Digital rights management and patent protection are important reasons for developers to upgrade to GPLv3, says FSF founder Richard Stallman
Steve Ballmer for President?
Blog Well, no, actually but it's almost that bad. It seems that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain - has made it clear that he wants Steve Ballmer to serve in his cabinet if he wins the...
Red Hat releases Fedora 7
News New Linux version pools the efforts of Red Hat programmers with outsiders contributing to the project
Oracle amends complaint in SAP suit
News New charges have been added by Oracle, alleging that SAP's TomorrowNow copied materials to the point of repeating errors from original
Final GPLv3 draft leaves Novell in the clear
News Latest draft of the General Public License doesn't block the Novell-Microsoft patent pact that has raised open-source hackles
Dell calls on HP to investigate spying charges
News HP says it discussed allegations that employees spied on rival, but Dell wants more thorough investigation
Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats
Blog Recently, two actions by Microsoft seriously called the attention of the open source community. One is the strange alliance with Novell and another is the unproven statement that GNU/Linux...
