Previous DayBritish Internet fraudsters jailed
News A five-strong Internet fraud ring was found guilty on Friday of defrauding several British Internet banks
News Schmooze: China gives up software piracy
News Bill Gates conquers China, Ginger saves the world, and the Queen beheads Tux, the lovable Linux penguin
Infiniband trials 'due in the spring'
News The first servers kitted out with the high-speed, switched-fabric interconnect should appear in pilot programmes soon, but full integration is still some way off
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 6/12/2001 More teeth-rattling frustration from the Whitehall Mandarinity. A report from the Public Accounts Committee says that a huge project to replace benefit claims system paperwork...
Investor hands Palm $50m
News Wireless and corporate sales efforts are to benefit from a cool $50m provided by an unnamed investor
Ministry of Sound DAP jukebox hits QXL for charity
News If your favourite techie is into techno, you could do worse than buy them this special edition Creative jukebox. And it's all for charity, mate
Veteran software maker sets IPO price
News Lawson Software becomes one of the few high-tech companies to go public this year
How to make the Web into Santa's biggest helper
Comment Heading into this challenging holiday season, the Web can be a shopper's best friend and a retailer's first line of offence in building sales, says IBM's Janet Perna. But will shoppers be satisfied?
Europe succumbs to UK pressure on data retention
News The European Council has approved controversial changes to the Communications Data Protection Directive that will expand data retention powers
Orange drip-feeds GPRS
News After months of confusion, Orange lets some consumers access some GPRS services, but won't officially launch the service until April 2002
NT Server 4.0 to disappear in July 2003
News The retirement schedule for Windows NT Server 4.0 shows all sales are to stop in 2003, and support to end in 2005
Intel, AMD up sales forecasts
News The chip manufacturers have raised their expectations for the fourth quarter - a move that may increase optimism among investors
Apple calls for Microsoft to pay cash for settlement
News Steve Jobs argues that Microsoft's payout to schools should be in cash, not in software and hardware
Ellison accuses IBM of 'creative accounting'
News The chief executive stops short of saying Big Blue has fiddled the figures, but IBM claims that Oracle is simply under pressure
Hacker had WorldCom in his hands
News A network-intrusion specialist used a security hole to get into WorldCom's network to show them how a less ethical hacker could have attacked their clients
Via wins another round against Intel
News US judge rules in Via's favour on a 1999 case, but more recent disputes still dog the Taiwanese chip maker's products
Xmas increases spam by 650 percent
News Inboxes are being flooded with junk emails at an increasing rate during the holiday season, leading to network overload and fast-spreading viruses
AOL: Old media eats new media
News Analysis: AOL Time Warner's choice of new chief executive shows how quickly the dot-com revolution has been consumed by the establishment
VeriSign: Are you the master of your domain?
News The registrar is to expand into online security, defending brand names against intellectual-property thieves
Five years ago: Net business growing but home use is flat
News The Internet may be in a position to lose its 'toy' reputation and be seen as a real business tool if a US survey by Inteco is to be believed
