IT spending still growing slowly
News Shortage of skilled staff and senior management thinking that current kit is good enough are the biggest problems for IT managers' spending plans this year
The future of IT security is fewer walls, not more
Q&A Improving IT security is all about tearing down walls rather than building them up, says Jericho Forum founder and ICI global information security director Paul Simmonds
Government to certify security kit
News Security products could soon gain a stamp of assurance from the government
Wikipedia planning a DVD version
News A disk-based version of the popular Web encyclopedia will soon be available in English, after a German version sold well
Security: It's just a matter of asking the right questions
Help/HowTo Don't know where to begin to test your applications' security? We have some helpful pointers to help you keep yourself secure
When support becomes sabotage
Leader Enthusiasm for a cause is all very well. Taking it too far can do more harm than good.
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
News An analyst who has been savaged for her views on open source software has hit back, denying that her work is biased
Battle continues over true cost of Linux
News An analyst firm claims that Windows offers equal or better TCO than Linux, but open source companies say the survey has ignored some of the advantages of Linux
Itanium trips up unwary designers
Feature Intel's Itanium hasn't fulfilled its potential. A new report gives some reasons, and predicts further problems unless Intel gets its act together
Symbian's security problems worsen
News Details of this week's second new piece of malware targeting the market-leading mobile OS have been released by F-Secure
Linux tool turns your office into a supercomputer
News The enterprise-focused CHAOS system will be able to turn your office PCs into a single supercomputer at night
Google's Mini adventure continues
News The Web giant has beefed up its SMB-targeted search appliance, and lowered the cost
CA flaws opens users up to DoS attacks
News A flaw that could allow a writer of malicious code to disable some of Computer Associates' intrusion-detection software has been made public by iDefense
Hitachi Performa CP-RS55
Review It's not the brightest, lightest or most feature-rich projector on the market, but Hitachi's Performa CP-RS55 can lay claim to the best price tag, and it may well represent the best all-round value...
IBM promotes opening up of IP
News An IBM executive has said that companies need to 'balance their proprietary approach to IP with a much more open, collaborative approach' and accept the implications of open source
OSI outlines licence cull plans
News The open source group's plans to solve the licence proliferation problem are starting to get underway. Not everyone's happy with its approach, though
IBM forges alliance against EMC
News Some of Network Appliance's kit will be sold with an IBM label, in an effort to offer better integrated storage solutions

