Previous DayLast-gasp attempt to block patent directive
News The EU software patent directive was scheduled to be adopted next Monday, but a last-minute move by Denmark could now derail the process
Briton appointed chair of IETF
News Brian Carpenter, an IBM distinguished engineer, will run the Internet standards body for at least the next two years
UK police struggling to fight cybercrime
News A Home Office report has found that police are struggling to cope with the weight of Internet child porn cases, due to under-resourcing and insufficient training
Intel has designs on Apple
Leader The chipmaker is the nearest thing the fragmented, commoditised world of PCs has to a field marshal in the upcoming design-based war with Apple
Lenovo: Where to now?
Feature The takeover of IBM's PC division may still be awaiting approval from US regulators, but the Chinese PC maker's new executive team has firm ideas of where the new company is going
Netscape 8.0 (beta)
Preview A beta version of Netscape's much-anticipated browser kills two birds with one stone: it runs the recent and wildly successful Mozilla Firefox engine but renders pages in Internet Explorer, too.
It's official: Spammers are hijacking ISPs
News MessageLabs says it has found powerful evidence that spammers are using new tricks to get around blacklists
Skype revisits Rabbit with free Wi-Fi deal
News Broadreach and Skype have teamed up to offer free VoIP at Wi-Fi hot spots. Just don't shuffle in your seat
'One in four' touched by ID theft
News Experts recommend shredding documents, not putting personal information online and being careful when sending CVs to recruitment sites
ID theft gang smashed
News Police in Scotland have charged 28 people accused with involvement in an ID theft scam that netted almost £2m
Mitnick warns on dangers of social engineering
News The famed ex-hacker has warned against security strategies that focus on technology; it's teaching staff to say 'no' that will keep your network secure
Telcos staring into the VoIP chasm
Feature Traditional phone companies are being forced into rethinking their business plans in the light of the rise of internet telephony, and the shifting power balance towards cable operators
The future of presence
Tech Guide What makes instant messaging work for business? The concept of presence. Here's how it can work in other applications.
Telco censured for blocking VoIP
News A telecommunications company has been ordered to stop blocking the ports used for voice-over-IP services, and has been fined for the practice
SCO restates financials
News The software group which is more well known for its Linux-related litigation than software has been forced to restate some of its financial results from last year - but still hasn't reported the...
Microsoft proposes Chinese piracy amnesty
News The software giant is to give large discounts on genuine versions of Windows XP to those with counterfeit versions willing to explain where the illegal copy came from
Apple machine on display at IDF
News IDF: The Mac maker's Xserve RAID was being displayed in San Francisco this week - because it's running on an Intel chip
Windows for supercomputers by November
News IDF: Microsoft has committed itself to releasing Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition before this autumn's SC2005 conference
