Previous DayCisco beats estimates, revenue jumps
News Cisco Systems predicts flat to slight revenue growth for its first quarter after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results
Cisco's in profit, all's right with the world?
Comment Peter Judge: IT managers have saved Cisco from disaster. We hope it rewards us all by leading the way to an era of dull, predictable financial results
Sugar buys Learning Technology
News The Amstrad founder will buy out the company formerly known as Viglen, once part of the Amstrad empire
Kasparov to square off with Deep Junior
News Chess grand master Garry Kasparov will take on a $100 commercially available chess program this autumn
Dijkstra, pioneer of computer science, dies
News Edsger Dijkstra, creator of much of the discipline of computer programming, is dead, but his legacy lives on in every computer
Domain names bounce back
News After a long decline, with VeriSign losing more than 4 million names since the beginning of this year alone, the number of domain names is on the rise once more
Microsoft settles over Passport privacy
News After a Federal investigation into privacy violations by Microsoft's Passport authentication service, the software giant has agreed to settle
Trellix adds blogging to its Web tools
News The company, which sells software designed to simplify Web site development, is set to announce that its tools now support the creation of Web logs
Time to plan your Web services
Feature At some point in the future, the number of Web services connections you maintain will be in direct proportion to the revenue you're able to generate
EasyInternetCafe faces fines over music burning
News The British Phonographic Industry wants EasyInternetCafe to pay a £100,000 fine, because its users have been downloading copyright music onto CDs
Apple frees FireWire software
News Aiming to spur adoption of the technology in consumer electronics, Apple will give away software that helps device makers add the high-speed port to their products
Black-market tool for Xbox mod squad
News The new X-ecuter chip allows the Xbox console to play legally and illegally copied games, import titles and homebrew software
Microsoft tongue tied by .Net
News Bill Gates said that building Microsoft's .Net is more difficult than 'getting to the moon.' But the company is having an even harder time explaining it
Epson Perfection 2400 Photo
Review With its high resolution and 48-bit colour depth, the Perfection 2400 Photo should appeal to professionals, but slight imperfections in image quality make it more suited for hobbyists.
Windows API 'flaw' sparks security debate
News As Microsoft attempts to burnish its reputation for security, a security expert makes the case that Windows' architecture encourages insecure applications
What does the future hold for COBOL?
News Programmers who have COBOL and new programming language skills such as XML and Java are well placed to take a lead role in major enterprise software projects
AIX won't hit the iSeries till 2004
News Plans to deliver AIX in IBM's iSeries are put back till 2004 despite hints it could have be delivered this year
iSeries rises to conflicting demands
Feature IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects
IBM focuses on microscopic advances
News A new electron microscope from Big Blue and Nion will help semiconductor researchers to design chips whose components are thinning out to the atomic level
Microsoft flags server application flaw
News The software giant's application for developing and managing e-business Web sites has three vulnerabilities, one of which could open up the software to attackers
Linux racks up corporate credentials
News Ahead of LinuxWorld next week, IBM and HP announce more big corporate customers for the relatively young operating system
Intel's Banias: Not built for speed
News It's frugal with power, but the upcoming notebook chip will run slower than Pentium 4
