Previous DayRed Hat: There's still room for improvement
Q&A Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CEO, sees no place for complacency despite his company's dominant market share
French Inland Revenue service goes open source
News The French Inland Revenue service has chosen a JBoss application server to run its new J2EE-based tax applications
Did Ofcom force BT's broadband price rises?
News The hefty increases in the cost of some of BT's wholesale broadband products may have been prompted by a review of competition in the UK's high-speed Internet access market
Wintel empire ready to fall?
Comment Perhaps a creeping sense of privileged paralysis signals organisations past their zenith
Munich stalls Linux migration
News The biggest-ever switch from Windows to Linux has been shelved while legal issues are sorted out
IT budgets to foot recycling bill
News New hardware recycling legislation may increase your IT costs by up to 10 per cent - but many people don't know anything about it
What's in a worm's name?
News It's not easy naming worms. Antivirus researchers originally identified a recent security attack as a variant of MyDoom - but now think it's actually related to a different piece of malware
Microsoft smoothes mangled translations
News Redmond claims that its new software tool understands the rules and patterns of English
AOL buys anti-spam maker
News America Online has bought Mailblocks, which sells software designed to thwart spam generated by machines
Start-up breeds better chips
Feature A Californian firm is building semiconductors that incorporate genetically engineered organisms
Linux services boom at IBM
News The company says Linux services and software revenue will overtake server sales faster than expected
AMD's new budget processors
Tech Guide AMD's new Sempron range of desktop and notebook CPUs is targeted squarely at Intel's competing Celeron family.
SEC may sue Business Objects
News The software firm's failure to disclose unshipped orders has attracted the US Securities and Exchange Commission's attention
Apple pays out over iTunes patent
News Apple and E-Data have come to an agreement covering rights to selling music online
Yukon and Whidbey delayed again
News Microsoft says the next SQL Server database and Visual Studio.NET development tool will not be released till the middle of next year
SP2 will upset Microsoft CRM
News Companies using the software giant's CRM program will have problems if they attempt to install its next Windows update
IBM promises not to attack Linux
News Big Blue says it will not use its patents against Linux and is challenging other firms to follow suit
Ximeta NetDisk
Review If you require simple, inexpensive local or network-attached storage in capacities ranging from 80GB to 250GB, look no further than Ximeta's NetDisk.
Billionaire backs new search tool
News IceRocket combines its own search technology with tapping into rivals' engines
MySQL embraces IBM's Power
News A version of the open-source database will run on IBM's Power processors
Nanosys stops IPO
News The nanotechnology firm has withdrawn its public offering, which was supposed to be held this week
Longer wait for XP update?
News Microsoft has put back development on Windows XP Service Pack 2, saying more work is needed before it can be released to manufacturing
Google's share giveaways may have been illegal
News The search firm is offering to take back more than 28 million shares that were improperly registered under securities laws
