Previous DaySybase revamps portal software
News Sybase Enterprise Portal 5.0 will feature improved security, support for Web services and compatibility with software from rivals BEA Systems and IBM
How Apple is worming its way into corporate IT
Comment Stephan Somogyi: Apple is letting Xserve owners upgrade to the next version of OS X Server (aka Jaguar) for a few pounds. Too bad the rest of us aren't so lucky.
Nielsen begins monitoring TiVo usage
News The audience measurement company plans to extract viewer information from TiVo's digital video recorders
UK leads Europe in chip design
News Despite reports of a UK brain drain, the UK continues to lead the way in independent chip design firms - despite being absolutely fabless
.Net and the Emperor's new clothes
Comment Charles Cooper: Microsoft always sounds sure about how .Net will rock the computing universe, but have you ever actually managed to decipher what it says?
Microsoft touts accounting format
News A part of a move to reposition Office as a Web services tool, Microsoft is drumming up interest in a form of XML tailored for accounting
Lowdown on latest MS security bulletin
Feature A new rash of Microsoft security bulletins is upon us. You'll need to decide which ones purport to fix problems that are risky enough to warrant making the update
PlayStation 3 chip nears completion
News Cell, a radical new processor designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba and dubbed a 'supercomputer on a chip', could enter production in 2004
BT unveils multimedia directory plans
News The telco even has its eye on your banking details, if a new service offering classified listings, weather forecasts, sports scores and cinema listings is a success
Sun's software czar
Feature Jonathan Schwartz took a job one month ago that most ambitious executives would not relish: running a software business forbidden from ever standing on its own
Five Israelis charged over Goner
News Police in Israel have charged five teenagers for writing and disseminating the Goner virus
British call-centre staff 'inferior' to Asian workers
News Bank chief says that HSBC Asian call-centre staff are quicker and more enthusiastic than British workers who are paid five times more
Flaw discovered in Symantec firewall
News A weakness in the way new connections are handled could allow an attacker to hijack any session, according to researchers
Danger holds back Hiptop handheld
News Europeans will have to wait until next year to get their hands on Danger's Hiptop - a combination smart phone and PDA
Report predicts 'wired brains'
News A report by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce in the US says the right investment in IT and biotech could have startling results
Hacker school teaches the good guys
News Ethical hacking means different things to different people, but most companies still don't understand that hackers are not necessarily malicious in nature or intent
Portable Perl scripts
Feature Using the Perl5 DBI module, you can build portable scripts supporting multiple database sources. Once mastered, this functionality will become a staple in your Perl bag of tricks
'Spider-Man' allowed to alter Times Square
News A judge questions advertisers' rights to control the way locations are depicted on film
Sun, HP speed Unix servers
News Sun will allow different speeds of chip to coexist in the same machine, breaking new ground in the Unix server market
AOL to name new CEO
News AOL Time Warner will name Jonathan Miller as head of its interactive unit, following several executive departures
Putting the fun back into hacking
News At Defcon, the annual capture-the-flag tournament captivates players and spectators with a new back story, snazzy graphics and a tougher scoring system
Security pros develop flaw database
News Experts say the database will help to keep information about software vulnerabilities freely available to the public
Microsoft antitrust efforts: Windows dressing?
News Microsoft is releasing some Windows source code to comply with an as-yet-unapproved November antitrust settlement, but some analysts say it is little more than a public-relations exercise
