Cisco offers tunnel-less VPN
News Networking giant offers a more efficient way to route encrypted data
Sun loads 16 cores into 'Rock' chip
News Rock-based servers due in two years, when competitors' chips will be lucky to have eight cores
Kaspersky questions the value of parental controls
Blog Apparently parental controls are "bullshit", according to a director at Kaspersky. The controls, which led last month to Microsoft's co-president Jim Allchin confidently asserting that he was...
In praise of Cobol
Comment Speaking Latin carries more kudos than Cobol in the modern IT community. That's not a useful prejudice
Ultrawideband legal in EU within six months
News EXCLUSIVE: High-bandwidth, short-range wireless technology finally gets the Euro nod
100 years of Grace Hopper
News It is 100 years since the birth of the woman credited with doing most to establish modern computer programming techniques
IT students have fees paid by criminals
News Security company McAfee claims some gangs are prepared to fund technology students through university courses
User Generated Content - What are they talking about?
Blog One of the major components of the Web 2.0 revolution is User Generated Content or UGC to its friends. But while it undoubtedly adds colour and content to the traditional editorial on a site, just...
Sun: 'The world needs only five computers'
Q&A Q&A: Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's chief technology officer, foresees large-scale consolidation in computing services
Sony outsources core services to India
News Outsourcing company Satyam is taking on core SAP development for the European arm of the Japanese company
Europe's orbiting dilemma
Comment Galileo figures role. Magnifico?
No patch yet for 'critical' Office flaw
News The flaw is being exploited in attacks, but a fix will not be ready for Patch Tuesday
ECMA approves Microsoft document format
News Certification marks a year of work for a technical committee set up to standardise Office Open XML
Future of notebook batteries: lithium polymer?
News Battery technology that was touted nine years ago for notebooks may finally get its day in the sun
HP pays $14.5m to settle spy scandal
News California won't sue the PC maker over invasion of privacy in investigating leaks
The Three Wi-Fi Men...
Blog Naughty, naughty Airmagnet. Bad, bad Hotwire PR. Sending me a press release that starts "Airmagnet, Inc., the leading provider of wireless assurance solutions..." You made up that category. You...
You may say I'm a dreamer...
Blog Up at 4am today in something of a tizz, having had one of those nightmarish dreams that seems real on the point of waking but dissolves away as you regain yourself. But this was a good one – it had...



