Previous DayMicrosoft 'waited too long' to crash CRM party
News Competitors have rushed to rubbish Microsoft's latest baby, Dynamics CRM 3.0, while potential customers are contemplating paying a high price
Inmarsat launches global mobile broadband
News 85 percent of the world's landmass and 98 percent of its population is covered by the new satellite broadband service, with speeds guaranteed to be at least 256Kbps
Red Hat offers Java server packages
News Builder: Three new Web application support packages are broadening Red Hat's traditional outlook, and bringing it into competition with the likes of JBoss and Oracle
W3C examines the next generation of speech technology
News Builder: The Web standards body is looking at standards for voice recognition, and text-to-speech markup
Universal embarrassment for HP
News Despite the head of HP's software group quitting mere days before the start of her business unit's largest European conference, the show goes on
Sun gambles its shirt on new threads
Leader Sun has embraced multicore, multithread, open computing in a dramatic way. If these things matter, the company will do well
OpenOffice.org 2.0
Review OpenOffice.org 2.0, the freeware version of Sun's StarOffice 8, is a great deal for small-business users who don't mind browsing online forums for technical support. But enterprises are better...
Europe plays innovation catch-up
Q&A The EU is under investing in technology compared to the US and Japan. Ulf Dahlsten is the European Commission official charged with changing the status quo
Gartner advises halting BlackBerry rollouts
News The ongoing patent dispute in the US has led the analyst firm to recommend firms stop all mission-critical BlackBerry deployments
South Korea orders Microsoft to unbundle Windows
News Guilty again: Microsoft has now been told to offer versions of Windows in South Korea that are free from Windows Media Player and its IM client
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
News Not much, according to the Public Accounts Committee, which has singled out IT as an area where the government has failed to learn from a long line of costly mistakes
Inside Firefox 1.5
Photo Firefox is the leading alternative browser to Internet Explorer. Here’s a visual tour of the key features in version 1.5.
IM worms step up a gear
News A worm that engages users in conversation may not be ready to pass the Turing test, but could be the start of a worrying trend
Sun to open Sparc's doors
News The hardware code for Sun's latest chip is to be released to the world, as the server and software firm works to get Linux running on it
EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce
News A security hole in a different piece of Sony copy-restriction software has been found
