Previous DayMSN 7.0 beta not smiling about smilies
News Rogue 'winks', or emoticons, have set back Microsoft's latest release of MSN Messenger
Microsoft releases fix for SP2-adware clash
News Microsoft has released a 'critical update' that creates a security problem for a small number of people who've installed Windows XP SP2 - but don't call it a patch
Environment agency expands online resources
News The environment agency has released an interactive online map of flood risks, with an integrated flood warning system, for the entire country
Run! The bots are coming
Comment Or are they already here? Symantec reported that incidents involving bots have risen by 1,500 percent since January - given the current trend there could be 100 million a day by January next year
Cuban offers Web 2.0 a reminder of things past
News Web 2.0: Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur and US TV show host, brought a touch of glamour to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday
Two cores not enough? Then try 96
News ClearSpeed have placed 96 computing cores on one piece of silicon: the chip, codenamed Avebury, is capable of 50 billion floating point operations a second and will be available next year
How much of a threat is portable storage media?
Comment Now the dust has settled from the storm unleashed by a Gartner analysis that suggested iPods were a security risk, we look at what can be done to improve security when it comes to such devices
Open Source: not 'if', but 'what'
Leader Open source is finding a home in an ever-increasing number of niches within the business
Do-gooder Trojan has nasty bite
News Downloader.Lunii deletes spyware, but is less friendly than it seems
Open-Xchange development gets open-source boost
News LinuxWorld: The Microsoft Exchange rival has released a beta, which the company claims would have taken 10 times longer to produce without the help of the open-source community
Strike to cripple Swansea's public services
News Thousands of council workers in Swansea are set to come out in support of IT workers who have been on strike there since August
Geeks in the driving seat of the new space race
Feature Ansari, Allen, Bezos, Musk. What have they got in common? They're people who have made silly amounts of money in IT, and are now ploughing some of it into space flight research. So what is it with...
Skype heads for the business VoIP market
News The Internet telephony start-up says that 'the fast beats the slow' as it moves to take on the big players in the business market
Offshoring fears hit US IT workers, but unemployment is down
News The monthly index of American IT workers' confidence in their own industry failed to rise for the first time since April, according to staffing firm Hudson
Battle between handset makers and mobile operators continues
News Web 2.0: The battle between handset makers and the operators of mobile phone networks for control of handset interface design is hotting up all over the world, according to a Macromedia executive
McAfee VirusScan 9.0
Review VirusScan 9.0 is a worthwhile upgrade for current VirusScan users, who will benefit from the improved spyware detection. But VirusScan lacks a firewall, making it an incomplete security solution.
Rescue robots help showcase Aussie innovation
News Autonomous rescue robots, immersive audio environments, low-cost deployment for fibre-optics and more are on display at the Australian Technology Park
History shows the perils of patents
Comment If crystal clear hardware patents can be turned against their inventors, what lies ahead for software?
Novell beefs up desktop Linux challenge to Windows
News SuSE Linux Professional 9.2 is designed to appeal to techies and consumers alike, says Novell as it continues its open-source assault on Microsoft's desktop dominance
Salesforce announces dramatic growth
News Brief: Salesforce.com has announced that it has almost doubled its customer base over the past twelve months
BEA pins its hopes on Quicksilver
News BEA may be in trouble from the inside and under siege from the outside, but it is hoping that a major new upgrade to its flagship server software will improve its fortunes
The browser wars are back, according to Netscape's founder
News Andreessen sees the rise of Firefox for the PC and Safari for the Mac as a 'one-two punch' that will trigger a reaction from Redmond
Was FUD the aim of Oracle's PeopleSoft takeover talk?
News Recently obtained confidential court documents throw the Oracle versus PeopleSoft battle into a new light.
