Previous DayBlue Security attack linked to blog crashes
News Analysts believe this week's DDoS attack on Blue Security was redirected to blog hosting company Six Apart, forcing it offline
Toshiba offers laptop rebate if England win World Cup
News Brief: An England triumph in Germany this summer looks increasingly unlikely, but it would still be good news for owners of new Toshiba portables
Saving the world with technology
Feature Information technology has had a massive impact on the developed world but what about the billions on the wrong side of the digital divide?
Small firms get free BlackBerry taster
News Research In Motion is letting new users of its handhelds test-drive its Enterprise Server product
No return to the wild Wi-Fi west
Leader The battle for the soul of 802.11n is getting fiercer -- and we're all in the firing line
Government launches flexible working drive
News The DTI wants to promote mobile and home working, and it's got the seal of approval from telcos and unions
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
News OpenOffice, Sun and IBM all support the file format. Microsoft says it will not impede adoption of OpenDocument but will still seek to have its own Office Open XML declared a global standard
Antispam list gets spammed
News Blue Security's Web site has brought down by spammers, who have also sent intimidating emails to the service's subscribers warning them to unsubscribe or have their inboxes bombarded
Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
News 'Get legal -- Get OpenOffice.org' is the tagline of a new campaign taking advantage of the recent clampdown against unlicensed software by Microsoft and the BSA
Europe honours father of the one-chip CPU
News Former Intel engineer Federico Faggin has been given a lifetime achievement prize at the European Inventor of the Year awards for his work on the world's first commercially viable microprocessor
Apple's cheeky TV ads exploit Vista delay
News Windows is cast as a stuffy businessman and a sneezing, virus-riddled PC as the Macintosh maker launches a campaign to get buyers 'thinking different' once again
HP helps data centres play it cool
News As data centres become crowded with more servers chewing more electricity, HP says its 'dynamic smart-cooling controller' can slash energy consumption by lacing server rooms with sensors
Cyber attack takes blogs offine
News Millions of personal Web sites vanished after TypePad and LiveJournal were attacked
Sun countersues Azul over Java 'secrets'
News Builder: Java specialist Azul stands accused of misappropriating Sun technology, a charge it denies
Intel wants AMD antitrust case kicked out
News A Delaware court is to rule whether AMD's lawsuit against Intel can be heard in the US
Gates: We'll keep Google honest
News Bill Gates has admitted that Microsoft made mistakes in the past, but claims that the software firm will catch Google
