HP targets firms with long-life laptop battery
News If you want to work from dawn to dusk without going near a power socket, HP may have the battery for you
Does Google want to store the world?
News A leak from Google analysts' day appears to reveal that the company has its sights set now on the storage market
BT nails down contracts for next-generation network
News Now the haggling over its 21st Century Network is over, BT can get on with 'sniffing its own exhaust fumes'
Becta fails the open source test
News Update: The government agency has been accused of excluding open source software from its educational software databases, despite highlighting the money that could be saved
The one thing Larry's cash can't buy
Leader Larry Ellison clearly understands Linux much better than his counterpart in Redmond but he still seems to struggle with some concepts
GoToMyPC 5
Review If you don't mind paying, GoToMyPC 5 makes an excellent choice for working remotely on a PC.
BT wins £46.9m intercontinental service contract
News 1,000 sites in the UK and Europe are to be linked up as part of the IT services contract
Samsung unveils 8GB hard drive phone
News CeBIT: The i310 can hold more music than some iPods and will be officially launched in Hanover this week
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
Special Report Trying to convince schools that open source software won't be a management headache is proving an uphill struggle
Apple criticised for persistent Trojan flaw
News A patch last week hasn't solved the fundamental problem behind the malware-disguising flaw, according to some experts
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News The Rev F versions will be here in the third quarter, and they will all be dual-core
Analyst: Don't worry about AOL's email fees
News The concerns of 'advocacy groups' about AOL's move to charge for emails are exaggerated, says Gartner
Oracle: Corporations not communities key to open source success
News Larry Ellison claims the success of Linux is down to IBM, Intel and Oracle, not lone developers
Cisco wants to be watching you
News $51m is buying the networking giant a firm that helps integrate analogue cameras with your IP network
Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security
News It took the winner of the 'rm-my-mac' competition 30 minutes to gain root control of a Mac Mini using an unpatched OSX exploit
Microsoft focuses on ease of upgrades for Vista
News You will be able to upgrade your version of Vista using the installation CDs by paying a fee online, according to information gleaned from the latest beta
Intel launches RISC-free strategy
News The chipmaker's investment in Transitive could produce high-performance RISC emulation on Itanium and Xeon servers
Microsoft: 5,000 US patents and counting
News Even that's not enough; at its current rate the software giant will file almost 15,000 more US patents by the end of the decade



