New e-commerce rules published
Feature Earlier this month, the Treasury published new legislation to bring the UK's financial services regime into line with the EU's e-Commerce Directive
Shakira worm rocks the Net
Help/HowTo A worm claiming to be pictures of the Grammy-winning star Shakira is spreading around the Internet via email or IRC
Ten Commandments of egoless programming
News In a team-based development environment, egoless programming is a necessity.
BT Tower on list of terrorist targets
News British security experts are thought to have drawn up a list of potential terrorist targets in the UK, including the former Post Office Tower
Teleworking growth surges ahead in the UK
News A report shows that teleworking in the UK is up 70 percent from five years ago, as more employees choose to work from home at least part of the time
Programming without prejudice
Feature The term "Egoless programming" was coined by author Jerry Weinberg, describing a development environment that involved heavy use of peer technical reviews.
Users warned on Yahoo! Messenger attacks
News New security holes could give attackers control of users' PCs - and businesses are also at risk
XP Service Pack 1 at testing stage
News Around 10,000 people will shortly receive the first big update to Windows XP, which helps the operating system comply with the antitrust settlement
HP Business Inkjet 2600dn
Review If you need full-bleed A3 colour printing, this printer will cost you less than a colour laser, and produce better results on photos even if it is a little slow.
Build next-generation applications now
Feature Many development shops will find out the only way to reduce time to market and meet the requirements of Web-aware applications is to move toward adoption of one or both of the new virtual machine...
FBI digs deeper into the Web
News The FBI is being given new powers to directly monitor communications, leading to fears of people being jailed on the suspicion that they may be guilty
Xbox hit by UK ad ban
News Regulator gives a thumbs-down to a Microsoft advert for the Xbox that left some viewers shocked and offended
DTI seeks views on the shape of ICANN
Feature UK Government is asking Internet businesses and users to submit their views on the future of the Internet's co-ordinating body, ICANN, by 14th June
Hollywood Net horror gets sequel
News After being closed down in Taiwan due to goverment pressure, a follow-on from the Movie88 site has opened in Iran, which does not recognise foreign copyright
More charges POP up on Hotmail
News Microsoft is to charge users, except those who are already paying fees for extra storage, for POP email retrieval
Speed typists bring World Cup home
News Football fans are turning to the Web for the latest information on the World Cup, and many sites are providing cost-efficient text-based live reporting
Sun offers business-friendly grid software
News The company upgrades its grid software to let businesses fine-tune control of computing resources
Microsoft plans new Web services push
News Microsoft hopes new security software called TrustBridge will make its .Net project more appealing
Help and HowTo: Internet Explorer Gopher hole
Help/HowTo Microsoft has not yet issued a patch for this vulnerabilities, so users may want to create a workaround
Mystery Segways go up for eBay bidding
News Consumers have begun bidding for more Segway devices on eBay, but this time the devices' origins are unclear
New AMD Athlon XP zooms past older chips
News The Athlon XP 2200+, coming next week, will bump up the chip's performance as AMD struggles to compete with Pentium 4
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed on browser market
News More than four years after its inception, the open-source browser is ready for the public. And its impact could go beyond browsing
Experts warn of IE Gopher hole
News In the latest security warning involving Microsoft, an outdated Internet protocol appears to have a vulnerability that leaves it open to hackers
Five years ago: Hauser sugar sweetens UK entrepreneurs
News Hermann Hauser's decision to adopt the mantle of UK IT start-up sugar daddy is getting rave reviews from the industry



